Joseph Meredith and Ann Badger marry 1861
Great grandfather Joseph and Great grandmother Ann marry in the fourth quarter of 1861: 1861 Q4 Dudley 6c 59
Emma Sunter – Lofty’s mother
Deaths Index 1978 Q1 – Emma Sunter b 16 Aug 1892 Ref Durham West 1 1773
Charles Sunter (Snowball) – no sign in BMD records -1983
I have searched through all the Deaths Index from 1918 to 1983. No sign of “Charles Sunter” b 1882.
Lofty’s brother Charles Sunter b1913 d1956 Reference
Found in Deaths Index Q1 1956 the death of Charles Sunter recorded. Ref Hackney 5c 906
Whodunnit? The mystery deepens as new suspect emerges…
So perhaps it was Charles Hull Sunter (a la Snowball family website) after all. Jane is working as a servant at the Hull family each year. The lads in the house could have been the suspects…but then there’s the Hull who lives a few doors away. Could there be more Hull family in the area […]
Whodunnit? Who made Jane pregnant? 1881
Jane Snowball gave birth to an illegitimate son, Charles in 1882. But who was the father?
Solved – the whereabouts of Charles Sunter in 1891
The mystery of where Charles Sunter was in 1891 has been solved.
Massive Shock re Sunters
Rick McGarry has just replied to an enquiry I sent to him. It makes fantastic reading. Maybe we don’t know who we are after all!
Lofty’s father Charles was illegitimate
Aha…scandal in the family. Almost certainly Lofty’s father Charles was illegitimate.
Mystery of Charles Sunter
So what happened to Charles Sunter? Why did he disappear? What reasons could there be? Marriage failure…an affair? Job away and just decided not to come back? Poverty…did he go to a workhouse too? Did he commit a crime? Did he die? Was he hospitalised? Did he go away to sea? Where would you go? […]