Hi Bev Many Many Thanks for your quick reply.
My family history is a bit of a mystery!!! to say the least, I will explain.
My grandmothers father was a John Henry Boler. Unfortunately John Henry (I think he was known as Henry) left his wife when my grandmother was very young, he disappeared. They were then divorced as she had been deserted to turn up (as the story goes) years later at his ex wifes funeral then disappearing never to be seen again.
My Grandmother knew nothing of her fathers family (and her mother fied when she was 15.
My grandmother has now passed away but I began researching for my father and I found quite a few mysteries especially witrh the Bolers!!!
I found that my great grandfather John Henry was 1 of 10 children born to a Mary Boler
The mystery is that the 1st 3 children appear to have been from a marriage to Samuel Boler, who then appeared to have passed away ay from this time on census's Mary was shown as a widowBUTwent on to have 7 further children between 1882 and 1894. Mary was a neighbour of a John Featherstone a Baker in Heath Street and I know that a John Featherstone a baker was the father of at least one of the children but I do not know if this John Featherstone was the neighbour / your John Featherstone.
Its a mystery
Barbara
