With regard to your research into Ada Smallwood neé Hammond I would be very interested to have more details. I am new to Rootschat so I don’t know if there is any facility of putting members directly in touch with each other so that we could share documents, pictures etc? Please tell me how we do it if possible.
I have no connection to the family. In general, when you look for help on Rootschat, the people that respond are researching on the information you supply, so the more one tells us, the better the results (which you did a superb job of!).
There are times when we find things we cannot post, such as copyright images (to protect Rootschat from legal woes). In that case, you would use the private message system to exchange email addresses (which absolutely cannot be posted in public here).
To send a private message, when viewing a reply, look on the left for the author, and below their info are two icons. One is a little person, showing in green when the user is online. The other looks like a sheet of notepaper. The latter is the link that will open up a screen to send a private message to that user.
On a side note, if you are not getting emails when someone replies, go into account settings and toggle that feature on. Many MANY times, people come along weeks or months later with information, and people miss out on getting important information because they stopped checking their threads.
Earlier you mentioned the demise of James Hammond in 1909. I did find a long article on his funeral which names a lot of relatives. If you do not have it, and wanted it, send me a private message with an email address, so that I can pass it on to you. (Also, you get to practice the PM system!)
Hope that helps!