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Can anyone help me find what happened to my Grt Grt Grandma's eldest sister? Jane Pearce was born in 1940 in Wigston (Two Steeples), Leicestershire. She is the eldest of 11 children of Sawyer/Woodman Henry Pearce and wife Eliza Goodwin. I have lots of information and even photographs of all the other children and their spouses and families but Jane remains a mystery. I can trace her in the 41, 51 and 61 census and then she goes off the radar. I had previously assumed she had died between the 61 and 71 census as I couldn't find a suitable marriage but had found a possible death entry. Every now and again as more archives have come online I have had another dabble and last night I found a marriage that I can say is 100% her. She married Benjamin Bennett on September 8th 1862 in Islington. I know it is her as one of the witnesses is one of her her sisters husbands; Josiah Monk and the address given is my Pearce family's address from the 1861 census (12, Cottenham Road, Islington). I thought I had cracked it with this new info, but now I can not find them going forward. I even tried to find Benjamin before the marriage but have had little success as I don't know where he was born. Benjamin's father is given as Giles Bennett, Rope maker (which I kind of imagined would make the Bennetts a family from a coastal location?) and Benjamin is 20 years of age in 1862. Can anyone locate them anywhere as a family after 1862? It is possible they emigrated, several of the other Pearce girls went to Canada but not until 1908 and my Canadian contacts don't have any knowledge of Jane either. Any help would be very very much appreciated. 

Wow Wendy, I've only just picked up your message, this is one long running thread. I haven't stopped trying to unravel this family mystery, actually I had another go just recently but didn't make much headway. I had Mary Ann and Sarah's parents as possibly John/Job Hunter and Mary Bodell taken from info found on the London C of E Baptism, Marriages and Burials records on Ancestry but I then found an annoying parallel family which seemed to fit better with Mary Bodell as they had a son named Bodell. Did you have any further luck? I have also just found you on Ancestry!

Thanks for the replies and help guys. I hadn't found the second MIC I do also think the cards were written by the same person and that possibly the initials were mistakenly switched on them, as we are 100% positive that it is our George Herbert Hayward buried in Bailleul. Interesting and very confusing!!! Funny thing is our George never went by his given name and was always known as Herbert!

Crikey! This is what I love about the internet  after an 'amazing' original flurry of information and incredible help over 7 years ago now this thread continues to give! Thank you so much Kelso for this new information it's wonderful to find out more about Edith. Did you read right through all the pages of Grimshaws Ontario? I posted a beautiful photo of Edith & Cecil as young children which I'd always wondered about. It has been amazing to find out so much. I've found a couple of people from both sides of this complicated story to help fill in some gaps but relish any further information, it is astonishing that the Grimshaws that stayed here in the UK never knew what mayhem Sidney caused!

Crikey Karenlee!! That's some detective work!!! Didn't expect all that this morning, now need to sit quietly and take it all in (not easy with a marauding three year old running around me!) You have been a star thank you.