**Solved!! Many thanks!**Family mystery - Holmes/Campbell/Groves/Button

[Huneynutloop]

Hey all, thank-you SO MUCH for all your replies! Sorry for the lateness in posting back but I'm afraid you're gonna have to forgive my newbie brain, think I've actually started getting smoke coming out my ears now, lol!:)

The Meggitt thing (Florence's carers) is quite interesting as I actually have Nellie's daughter marrying a Meggitt from the area, later on:)

I have to admit that I might've been a bit naughty and used some info from someone else's tree that I should have checked into more thoroughly, but here I have Joseph Holmes (Nellie's father) as being listed with a sister Amelia:
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/person.aspx?pid=-1114113523&tid=7339370&ssrc=

Think I'd better go back now and work out for sure who Nellie's paternal grandparents were and how the Meggitts fit in..

Cat

[tazzie]

   Hi Catherine ......

 I think they put 2 & 2 together and got 5 in this case..... or have they ?

  They have Amelia married to Atkin but here is her baptism ...

 Amelia Holmes 1855 father James mother Diana Ann.........
 so were there two Amelia's and this one died ....cannot see that...... or is the parish entry wrong....date given as extracted 10Sept 1855!

   Amelia is down as Daughter to Samuel & Ann in 1861 and a servant in 1871.

       Tazzie
 

[Huneynutloop]

At least it helps to solve the Meggitt side...I've found the marriage record between Joseph Holmes (Nellie & Florence's dad) and Annie M Meggitt (daughter of Florence's carers) in Sept quarter 1902, around the time they had their first child together that same year.

[Huneynutloop]

A mystery solved!! Woohoo!:)

Turns out Joseph Holmes' (Nellie and Florence's dad) second marriage was to the cousin of his first wife. No wonder the same names going round and round was giving me a headache, lol! This means that (besides potentially having something to shake my finger at one of my ancestors for) he did actually keep his youngest child, Florence, with him, but left Nellie elsewhere..

Many thanks to everyone helped me by posting a reply! Especially Tazzie, Anna and Geoffe who's tireless efforts (including having to explain everything to me in words of one syllable) helped me to unravel it all. Thanks guys!!:)

Cat

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Glad to be of help


Pam