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Thanks to everybody for your prompt and interesting responses. You have probably gathered that I am new to this genealogy game (and managed to misspell Huguenot in the subject line!) but I am pretty much up to speed on my mother's parents. Emma Brazier was the only one of my grandparents who was alive when I was born (1941) and I know her immediate background quite well. She died in 1952 having married, firstly, Charles Ellenor (2 sons, Jack and Fred) and secondly, Frank Warman (1 daughter, my Mum). I have gone back a couple of generations on the Brazier line but the Warman side is proving a bit more difficult. I think (?) I have established that Frank Warman was born in the Blean Union Workhouse which was situated in the village of Herne where, coincidentally, I now live. But going onward from there has, so far, been beyond me - certainly with Christmas looming ominously ahead of me. I will take up the very helpful suggestion that I contact the Huguenot Society (not knowing previously that they existed) in the hope of their being able to suggest which is the more likely surname to pursue in the first instance. In he meantime, I wish you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hello, my grandmother, Florence Bassindale, was born in the Tower of London in 1871 to her Grenadier Guard father Thomas and his wife Annie Scott. They were married in Montreal, Canada in 1863. At the same time and in the same regiment in Canada, there was a Quartermaster Sergeant Edward Bassindale, married to Sarah Cook, who went on to become in 1864 the Quartermaster (an officer) of the Grenadiers. I cannot find him among the Axholme Bassindales. Can anyone help, please?