I'll give you the background which may help.
Regina Mary Spurway born 1872 in Cheshunt Hertfordshire married Adrian Freshney Bell on 21st July 1894. They had a son Adrian George Freshney Bell in 1896. Adrian senior died in 1897.
Regina Mary Bell then married Roland Nielson in 1898 in Edmonton, Middlesex. They have a daughter Phyllis Maud D Nielson in 1900 (she died in 1923) They appear together with stepson Adrian in the 1901 census in Great Clacton, Essex. Roland was a bricklayer's labourer.
However, by the 1911 census Regina Mary is using the name Burgess and says she is a widow. She is living with her son in the house of Frederick Hopewell in Nottingham. She has with her a daughter Elsie Maud Burgess born 1903 Transvaal, South Africa. In July 1911 she married Frederick Hopewell.
By his marriage in 1919, Adrian George Freshney Bell has changed his name to Burgess and keeps this for the rest of his life. So Burgess must have been important to him.
So my questions are: Why/when did Regina go to South Africa? It has to be after the census in 1901 and before Elsie's birth in 1903.
Who was Elsie Maud Burgess's father?
Did Regina marry him?
When did she return to England?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Jan