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For a property, will it have the same reference in every valuation roll. For instance if I find my house in 240, number 5. Will it be on the same reference in each volume? or does it change if the village gets bigger etc?

Does anyone have more/further information on the above and a date of death?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Holt

She was born in 1849, the daughter of actor Clarance Holt. She played Eponine in an early theatrical version of Les Miserables. According to the book Fifty Years of Make Believe she  "was the antithesis of her mother, up to date, young, more than pretty and with advanced ideas on the conduct of woman. She read French novels, smoked cigarettes on the sly and played the principal "boys parts'' in burlesque."

She married Reginald Fairburn in 1880 and quit acting. She then wrote her own plays including Every Man For Himself and Waiting Consent. She sometimes used the name Mrs R Fairbairn. She had a daughter named Ada. She moved to Australia for a bit in the 1880s and had success there as did her brother Bland Holt, who became very popular.

Little is written about her activity in the 1890s but according to the below article she is the same person as Madame Harpur, a notorious abortionist:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/839061

The below article stays the same and castigates a newspaper for confusing her with daughter of Bland Holt, reaffirming she is actually his sister.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/148073554?searchTerm=%22may%20holt%22%20%22bland%20holt%22&searchLimits=exactPhrase|||anyWords|||notWords|||requestHandler|||dateFrom|||dateTo|||sortby

The full story of "Madame Harpur" is told here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:u26SPUAPkmMJ:www.sahistorians.org.au/175/bm.doc/madam-harpur-the-trials-and-tribulations-of-an-adelaide-doctoress.doc+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

The last mention in any Australian newspapers I can find on the Trove site is in 1909 after her most recent court case.

The article has no further information on her whereabouts after 1909. It also states she and her husband parted ways after a rocky relationship yet they both appear as husband and wife on the 1911 census on Ancestry:

Residence
02 Apr 1911 • Great Clacton, Essex, England
Age: 57; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
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Another conundrum is that the above article states that "Her partner was known as Samuel Brierly, Dr Brierly Fairburn, Dr Brierly and Dr Fairbairn.". This Dr died in 1898 according to the article yet Ancestry states Reginald Fairburn died in 1921.

Her father Clarance Holt, who was known for productions of Les Miserables and Count of Monte Cristo, died in 1903.

Any ideas? Thanks for Allister for his help on this and other Australian actors/actresses.

How do I find a grave if I have the order and lair number?

William Grandison was the brother of my Great Grandmother Elizabeth.

He died in the USA in 1968. His gravestone said he was born on 11 Nov 1885.

His parents were David Grandison and Mary (M.S Whyte). David and Mary married in 1889. David was 41 when he married. In the 1881 census David was in Liberton, Midlothian, Scotland living with his sister's family. In the 1891 census he was in Beath and was the head of the household. William was listed as being 5 years old.

The obituary for William said he was born in Edinburgh.

There is one birth for William Grandison on Scotland's people for 1885. It has the wrong date and lists his father as Peter so it cannot be correct.

Any ideas?