you dont know how long I have just spent looking for this post, I started reading it yesterday and laughed till I cryed, thanks! I am new to this board so will have to figure out how I can save a post...my family story I just put up on the cheshire site..it is this
what is supposed to of happened is the servant girl being had by the lord and married off and the child provided for...my mother was sure it was the 7th earl of stamford, and although he was a rouge and had strange taste in women I don't think it was him, I thought it was the H G who became the 8th earl...before he was sent away to south Africa for bringing shame on his family by being a drunk and a wasterall...that would of made it a Sarah Jane jackson who worked as a servant for them and Alfred Cooke who she was married off too and even though they had 12 children I might add I can find no record of them ever being married and for some strange reason all 11 kids were baptized but the first one George w...never was, but I have come across a book that puts the Cooke's working for the earls of Stamford back when the 5th earl was alive and that George Cooke died and left a lot of money back to the Grey family..the author of the book implied he might of stolen it but why would you leave money to the family you stole from...no looking at the bit of will she has in the book I think he was the Cooke born out of wedlock and taken on as steward..the money he left would of been to his half brothers etc...so the story seems to be a lot older then I had first thought. but I have no doubt somewhere the truth is in there.
