Great to be in contact again and what progress has been made! Amazing detective work, douglas1950! I vaguely remember viewing the will years ago of the James Davidson who died in Calcutta but ruled him out because he only mentioned his two sons. I am guilty of thinking that Ann was the only one who slept around and didn't think of James as having children with other women or of ignoring his daughters in his will!
I can guess why there might have been a distancing of Mary Jane from Jessie as the Woods were rather puritanical and could well have disapproved of Ann while Jessie stayed in close contact with her. (There is also the tyranny of distance with M.J. living at Bathurst.)
My grandmother (Mary Ruth Wood) made sure I knew that we were related to the Cocks family but there was no mention of the half brothers and sisters who were offspring of J.D. and A.K.
Pat
