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Thanks for replies, Im not new, been doing my family tree for a few years now. Thought id look into the Marfleet family tree as it was my Grandad's middle name and it seems a bit of a tradition to use it as a middle name, so thought it would be interesting to find out more.

That website is so confusing and hurts my eyes lol. I had a quick search of family trees on ancestry and there is someone with the people I'm looking for and it goes further back but no sources so not reliable. She has Elizabeth's parents as Thomas Marfleet and Ann Searby. I've searched on that horrendous website and they are there but I cant work out if it says they are the older Eizabeth's parents. Its really a very complicated way of doing things.

In the 1951 census it has the youngest Elizabeth down as an illegitimate daughter (as her occupation lol) but I've found her parents marriage in the marriage index so I think its a mistake and its Harriet who is the illegitimate one.

Thanks for replys x

Hi
This morning I've been researching my Marfleet ancestors and I've found them on a website that someone has made with lots of other Marfleets. Only trouble is, I really don't know how to understand the referencing system they have used.
Here is the website link: http://www.marfleet.co.uk/john.marfleet/gen/gen(k-q).htm

And the people I am looking at are Elizabeth Marfleet born c1773, her daughter Harriet Marfleet born c1810 and then Harriets daughter, Elizabeth Jarrett born c1832. I have been finding them on the page by using the find tool in the browser (they don't seem to have a reference number I could give).

Anyway I've tried to make sense of this system by looking at the explanatory notes, but I think there are numbers missing from the people I am looking at so I don't know how to work out who Elizabeth Marfleets parents are 

I don't know if Harriet was illegitimate and Elizabeth wasn't married and Marfleet was her maiden name, or if she was married and I need to be looking for her Marfleet husband.

Anyway I hope that makes sense, I'm sorry if it doesn't.

My great great aunt died as a baby and was buried in a plot with a random man. It was an unmarked grave so i'm not sure if that could have happened in this case. Are you sure she never had children? She could have had a baby out of marriage and it could have been brought up by someone else, that has happened in my family tree a couple of times x

It does fit though as Thomas is a commercial traveler which i know my thomas was from the marriage certificate. And also Stanley is an insurance clerk at age 16 on the 1911 census and on his marriage certificate 11 years later he is a shipping clerk, so i'm guessing this is maybe a similar thing, both being clerks. My dad doesn't remember a great uncle harry because he can only remember his own uncles and cousins, so cant make a connection that way.

oh my goodness thank you so much I wasn't expecting people to help so much, your all so kind. I was thinking another connection was my Grandad Stanley jnr had a sister called Nellie but i've just checked my family tree and Nellie was his half sister and wasn't Stanley snr daughter so that's only a coincidence it appears. Ive text my dad to ask if he knows if my grandad had an uncle called Harry.

Are there any other ways to prove (or disprove) that this is the right family?