had initially thought that the prompt was Black Sheep. Because this story has been a troublesome one to write its sub title will be Black Sheep
This prompt could easily be applied to an ancestor that I
have already written about.
So where do I start this time? Well there’s the great
aunt who was cited for adultery. She isn’t a direct ancestor and all I know are
the bare facts. Besides I don’t feel that it is my place to write about her. If
she’d been my grandmother…well that would be different, but she wasn’t. Thinking
about it, my family has quite a few ‘black sheep’, but show me a family that
doesn’t.
So maybe I’ll write about ‘lost sheep’ instead.
Previously I wrote a story about a third great
grandfather, James Harvey, in week 22, Uncertain when both James and his wife
Susan Lucas were not in the same household on the 1841 census as their
children.
James and Susannah marriage took place at Barking Tye,
Suffolk, which is about 20 miles 23 km from Wilby.
Is it too much of a coincidence to discover on the 1841
census for Wilby, that Thomas Aldous who Susan goes on to marry on 11 February 1848,
eight years after James died, lives right next door to a David Harvey and his
family including a child called James and a daughter called Harriot, both of
which seem to be family names. Interesting it maybe, but I cannot find a link,
yet.
There is a possible James on the 1841 census, but in
Worlingworth, Hoxne, which is only about three and a half miles from Wilby
(about 3.5 Km), but no sign of Susannah 
On yet
another Suffolk census, this time at Brandeston, about ten miles from Wilby is
another James Harvey
I thought I was on to something with an 1841 census
search for Susannah in Worlingworth which is about 25 miles from Wilby. When I
looked at the actual record it was for a nine-year-old Susan Harvey. Again, is
that too much of a coincidence to find Harvey in a family of Lucas’s?
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