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I have just finished reading all the posts re Edward (Edwin) and found the one that says he was a lunatic in the local asylum, so I think it's important to mention here that his son, my grandfather Archibald Dunster Smith, also spent time in the local asylum, I was told it was because he was shell shocked, but if his father suffered from mental illness perhaps this was not the only reason ? My mother never mentioned her real father, and the family history on that side is a huge mystery , for instance I grew up never knowing that my mother had an elder sister, Mildred.  I don't know who you are, that you are so interested, but maybe you are a long lost relative of mine ??