Wonder if Nellie looked after Olive until she went to Charlotte??
You'd have to think so, as I don't think formal adoption process began for another 25+ years. Was nurse Goddard a friend or just offering a paid service?
Just for interest, you may have seen this already.
No I hadn't seen those before, thanks. I'd never thought to search Trove for nurse Goddard. But is it the same person? These links are in Yarrawonga, which is a long way from Melbourne, but they were 22 and 29 years later, so quite feasible. I can see it may be worth searching for her some more. I recall someone aleady posted some info about her on this thread, so I'll have to check that out too.
Somewhere in the lengthy chats about Olive which spreads over two threads, think I remember you saying you thought you had found a connection between Mary McDONALD, Olive's birth mother and the CLARKEs.
A relationship of some kind.?
Yes, it is yet another thing I have to do some more work on. As they say, the more you find out, the more there is to still find out!
I have a distant DNA connection to someone who is descended from JJDClark's wife's sister, and also to someone who had both JJD and Olive in their tree. Now it may just be coincidence - perhaps the matches have nothing to do with the Clark family. It is just a possibility, but an intriguing one. I have done some work on it, but so far haven't been able to establish anything (I need some other matches to see if all descend from the same ancestor - which is how I found Olive's mother).
The possibility is that Olive's father was somehow related to the Clarks, hence my DNA match. This would also explain how the Clarks came to adopt Olive, and why Olive felt (as she told my mum) that JJD was especially fond of her even though Charlotte didn't seem to be. It's just a possibility, but perhaps the best possibility I currently have to find Olive's father.
