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There was only one mentioned who she remembers vaguely, "Nellie" - but that doesn't fit with anything I know - the two other children you mentioned would be distant cousins of mine who I know about, I don't remember finding a May in their household though - I'll get back to you on that one.
Thanks again for all your help, really appreciated.

Quite early on in my search I found out that my paternal great grandfather was a bankrupt bigamist - he abandoned his wife and youngest child, left his 18 year old pregnant daughter out in the lurch (my great grandmother), ran away to Nottingham, added a "de" into his name and had a child with a woman who we (a half cousin and I) believe that he never married.
I'm glad though, otherwise I wouldn't have that said cousin, and who knows, I may not have been here!

Tell me about it, I've managed to put my mother in touch with a cousin of hers - they never knew that either side existed because neither parents spoke of that side of the family or didn't get the chance to.
They get on like a house on fire and it's been really great to bring some of those names and dates to life with this person's information!

I hope something is done about this, if we, as a secular, independent, yet representative of the public body cannot overcome this then it seems we've lost our most basic rights!

More information about the initiative please!

LUCY LEDAMUN B. 1894 CAMBERWELL / NEWINGTON

Sorry for being away everyone, been really busy studying so haven't had much time to dedicate to RC and genealogy in general I'm afraid.

Anyway, following a message that I received through Genes Reunited, I would like to help an 80 year old woman find links to her family. It seems that there could be a possible connection with her to my own family, but I don't want to be too optimistic until I see some concrete evidence - however, if there is anything I could tell her about her roots I would like to do so. She was a WW2 evacuee and became seperated from her family. She didn't see her parents again after the war, so if there's anyway we can give her some roots now that'd be great.

Anyway, said lady was obviously born in the 30s near the Angel in Islington, London. Her parents' names were Lucy Ledamun (possible connection to myself) and Frank Jackson. Using the FreeBMD I have found out the following information:

Lucy Ledamun birth registered March 1894 in Clapham, Surrey

March 1919 marries Jackson in Camberwell.

Now for the possible connection with my family: a cousin of mine has done extensive research into this branch of the family, and collectively we have managed to branch upward and outwards from 1700s in England to the present day as far as Canada. We have been fortunate enough to find other relatives (including each other, our branches of the family fell out of contact before I was born!)....Anyway, many of the names in the family of this lady recur in this branch of the family tree - but sadly not the right branch as the only Lucy Ledamun before this Lucy Ledamun married someone by the surname Florance!

The fact that Lucy Ledamun married Frank Jackson in Camberwell is also interesting as my grandmother's cousins were living in Camberwell at this time:
Frederick George Ledamun (b.1858) and his wife Eliza (nee Scutt, b.1855). They had at least 5 children, one of whom died at a young age. 70 Henshaw St in 1881 (Newington), 143 Great Dover Street in 1901 (Newington) between 1891-1901. Camberwell at this time came under Newington.

As they are so close in proximity and a lot of this part of my family were part of this wave of urban migration, many settling in this area, I would like to try and find any census records for Lucy in the 1901 census.

I haven't been very lucky this far and could really appreciate some help!

Thanks in advance guys!