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On November 30th, 1885, the steamship Parthia set sail from Plymouth, bound for Australia. My great-grand-aunt Catherine Train, a domestic servant, aged eighteen-years-old, was on board. The ship arrived at Sydney, New South Wales on the 13th January, 1886. During the journey, there had been 36 cases of measles, three deaths, and two births.
In 1888, Catherine married Jules Schuller, another immigrant, of Villeurbanne, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France. In 1894, Jules john Peter Schuller was born.
Jules John Peter Schuller, a carpenter, enlisted on the 6th April, 1915. On the 6th June, 1915, he embarked from Sydney, aboard His Majesty's Australian Troop Transport Berrima. He was never to return from the journey his mother had made in the opposite direction, some thirty years before.
On the 17th March, 1917, Australian troops entered the ruined town of Bapaume. The town hall was one of the few buildings left standing. The Australians made use of it.
On the night of 25-26th March, my first cousin (twice removed) was sleeping in the town hall, with many of his comrades, not knowing that, somewhere in the darkness of the town hall cellar, acid was slowly dripping on the thin steel thread of a time-bomb, placed there by the Germans eight days before. Sometime during the night, the bomb exploded, completely devastating the town hall. Men worked throughout the night and day, digging, but only six men were brought out alive. About thirty men died, including two visiting French deputies. Jules John Peter Schuller's body was dug out of the ruins, a day and a half later. He was buried in Bapaume Communal Cemetery (Row III, Grave no. 9).
On the 26th March, 2011, a Roll of Honour plaque was dedicated in Bapaume to the men who were killed.

http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/bullecourt/bapaume/bapaume-town-hall.php

My great-great-grandmother was called Dorothy Ferguson and was born in Longnewton in about 1827. Her parents were Robert Ferguson and Mary Pearson. It would be interesting to see if there is any connection to your tree.

Thanks for the quick replies.

Lizdb, I had already seen the record for the Edith Norcott who died in Henley in 1937, and it now seems more and more likely this could be her. No, I have no middle name for her, but she gave birth to my grandfather Arthur in 1914.

As for the other Edith Jones, Jim1, the Towcester connection is new to me, but the mention of Eastbourne is intriguing. In 1911, Ernest Norcott was living in Brighton, 17 miles away.

Thanks for the info.