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Strange comment since I thought I had done that!

Re David's remarks, this is a perfect example of how genealogists seeking to be helpful and putting down such information as is available ie died after such a date, can lead to errors. Three other (distant)family members had taken that Roughwood listing to mean 1912. I had not checked it since my very elderly aunt had told me "Your grandmother died when your mother was born" when what she had meant to say was "Your grandmother died on your mother's birthday" (Albeit 33 years later!) She compounded the misunderstanding by saying "Of course I had to look after your mother when she was a baby" Of such are errors made.

Anyway the shrouds of mystery are now swept away and many thanks to all the people who have contributed.

My cousin, knowing that I was doing some research into the family history, Has got in touch with the oldest surviving member of the family. Although he is quite old and his memory may not be perfect he has told us that some of the information we were given may not be accurate. So could someone please do a quick look-up for me to sort the following query?

Annie Maria STANDEN (nee SCOTT) was born in Bassingbourn in 1867, she married Harry Standen and had 13 children and died in Bassingbourn, but did she die in 1912 or 1947, or indeed in some other year?

I have been trying to trace back a Charles Brand who was raising a family in Caxton in 1841. He was the right age to be Mary's brother. This led to Brand families in Fulborn and Elsworth. The Elsworth one has a Mary in the generation before and after our Mary, so it is a possibility.

If Mary followed my mother's generation of Standens, half of them did not like their given names and used something different. My grandfather did not like the name my parents gave me - he said, "That's not a boys name, I shall call him Jim." He never called me anything else but Jim.

Yes, that would be right.
Barbara his wife was born in Waldron in 1783.
The children were Frances, Henry, Francis, Elizabeth, Charles and William. Charles married Susan Larkins. The three older boys became blacksmiths and Gamlingay was one of their forges (My grandfather did some of his apprenticeship there, as did a certain Mr Dickerson who you may remember)
William did not become a blacksmith, he married "posh" - Leonora Pandora Randolph, and disappeared to London.

Searching IGI, there are more Brands in Cambs than you could shake a stick at! but not in the areas I'm looking at.