Facts that don't stack up & reading between lines - help me solve a mystery!

[bbart]

How did you find her? I'm using Ancestry and if I search for 'Florence Staniforth' and her birth year I get nothing! (I find the Ancestry search system pretty unreliable, to be honest).

Try just putting Florence L Staniforth and once you get results, have it only show Censuses from 1930's. 

[bbart]

Ignore that last post. Anc isn't showing it, but FindMyPast is....

[bbart]

Anc has her under surname STAMFORTH. 

[lauralem]

Anc has her under surname STAMFORTH.

You're a legend! Thanks.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Irrelevant, sidetrack query: Please, what's an "Heraldic Stamper"?

[hallmark]

A Stationer who embossed stationery witn family Crest.....

[ThrelfallYorky]

Thank you. I never knew that. (Filed)

[heywood]

There was a theory that another descendent had that 'Kate' was actually Jane - and there are two Janes in the Richards family of Melksham that were cousins and born a couple of years apart, so would make sense if one of them had a nickname so as to avoid confusion. So I'm starting to think that the Jane living in Chelsea in the 1871 census that I originally thought was Florence's mum was actually her mum's cousin.

As Florence is the niece of Henry Richards, do you know his brother/s and families?

There is a marriage that might be worth looking at.
Free BMD

September 1870 London City 1c pg 159

John Adams and Jane Richards

It seems bizarre though with John being a middle name and Jane using Kate 

[avm228]

The couple who married in 1870 may be the John Adams and Jane (both Welsh-born) who are lodging in Westminster in 1871 with one-month old daughter Lizzey M (Lizzey Margaret Adams birth reg with mmn Richards, St Geo Han Sq Jun qtr 1871). 

1871: RG10/124/46/35

They have moved back to Wales by 1881.