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unicorn i think you may be posting your same message several times instead of adding to this one

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good luck with your fiske search

Update the daughters Mary E  Dorothy were born in Pietermaritzburg natal south Africa
& There was a still birth in 1909
In south Africa too

The parents were not married until 1915 when James Cornthwaite was diagnosed with TB so probably in order for Emma to get widows pension
No records found in south Africa for the births but the children were baptized with surname Cornthwaite on return
The last child born over a year after James death
May have been child of Emma's future husband Fred SMITH

1 grandchild was very shocked to find that the grandmother had had births before and after marriage . Other grandchildren refused to believe it at the time .

My grandmother told me that she'd met granddad at a wedding and that they were some kind of cousins

I've been looking for connections for ages .

Finally found his elder sister marrying her cousin ...so they were related by marriage .!

Thank you for pm
I can now access the free newspapers
View which are on FindMyPast

& Now understand the note on criminal record about 14 days & 5 years

Alice  was remanded in prison for 14 days before being sent to reformatory
School

She committed the crime in August of stealing opera glasses and other articles 1880
 according to another newspaper her accomplice was Edward George JONES who was sentenced to hard labour

The fact that she ran away from Liverpool to London & Chatham
Suggests she may still have had relatives there

 

that seems very feasible to me

are the matches showing up on thru lines +/or have you worked out exact relationship to you ...the mother + son will be interesting to compare cms tho small amounts would be expected at 5th cousin or 4c 1r level