« Reply #14 on: Sunday 21 December 08 17:38 GMT (UK) »
It really has helped, at least I don't think Mrs Lilly is my lost Mary Lane.

My method to try and find Mary Lane , hope this makes sense

LDS 1881 census I typed in Mary, her birth year abt, trawled through them all and started pulling out the married names , if they were born in or near Rampton or Normaton on Trent.
how sad am I be coming

Eilleen.
EXTON, from Rutland, Stamford, Boston, Lincoln. LANES, from Coleby,to Bracebridge Lincoln.WAKEFIELD,PROUDMAN Cheshire and Stafford.<br />PINDAR, MOORE, ,CHAMBERS mostly from Lincolnshire.
LAING from Elgin ,Scotland.
HADDELSEY from Caistor,and Grimsby Lincolnshire.
Parfitt, Le Gros ,Le Sueur, from Jersey.
Martin, from Doncaster to whelyn garden city, London.
BINT, Worchester, in Australian mint.