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Thanks Cello, that's great.

I actually saw that thread about St mary's on google before i had come across Rootschat. I wonder whether my great granny might have known the people mentioned as the dates would coincide.

I also contacted St Mary's direct, but sadly, for genealogists at any rate, they didn't keep any records of who was there. Perhaps the museum might have some other ideas for tracking her down...

Thanks for that reference Tony.

With thanks to Osprey who has been helping me on another thread about George's inauspicious beginnings, I have found George and Harriet's marriage record, and a whole load more ancestors for Cassily on Harriet's side! It looks like George was army after all, so I now have no idea where Dunlop fits into the picture, if indeed it does at all!! It seems like a somewhat random thing to invent, so perhaps a link will emerge eventually.

Thanks for all your help.

Thanks Chas, that's helpful. How would I go about looking at Horsley baptism records? Does it require a visit to Stroud or is there another way of accessing the records?

Osprey - I have wondered about those other Stricklands, but I don't know how to make a link. I did find a worryingly late death record for a George Strickland of similar age, which would imply Harriet wasn't a widow after all, but I have satisfied myself that it is the other Geo Strickland who married Ellen Grimes. One less skeleton to worry about!

Thanks for finding all that, Osprey. At least I can leave that family in peace!

With regard to India, I had understood from a relative that George went there with the Dunlop Rubber Company as a pattern maker. However, that theory has had a hole blown in it by the fact that Dunlop did not establish themselves out there until the 1920s! The only possible link with them at that period is that they were experimenting with growing rubber in the Botanic Gardens in Calcutta, a link which I am about to pursue.

In terms of when he went, I don't know, although I have always assumed it was as an adult. He certainly had a son in India in 1880. He was married to a lady called Harriet, but I can't find out any more about her at the moment. I think he met her in India, but I don't know that.

There is an entry in the 1871 CR which looks like George. He is lodging with a couple in Minchinhampton, and I think if I have read it right he was an unemployed stair dresser (what was one of those?! Perhaps it says stone dresser?)

But where, oh where is Ann?!