Mary Jane Denyer has been our Achilles Heel for over 20 years when I started this! I have those pictures from the Regency Society and the (ugly) woman looks like the woman in the picture my Grandpa had but maybe the two Denyer families were connected in some way.
Yes ... The Barnardos report states that in 1916 she was Mrs. Searle... that is another mystery! So the Alfred Denyer and Mary Denyer at Wish Cottage are not my gr-grandmother and step-gr-grandfather ... Glad I didn't get to England, go to Hove and force myself on the Denyer descendants! ha! ha!
So I guess it's a matter now of finding the 1911 census and finding out where Ms. Denyer was at the time. I do know that she was born around 1874 and Married Alfred in 1898 when my grandfather was 4.
If it's any help, Chichester seems to keep popping up.