Two things stand out for me.
The first is that my grandmother apparently lived with her much older brother for much of her childhood (albeit next door or even in the same house as her mother), yet I never heard her mention him, his wife or family.
The other is the opposite, in that it proved a family story. My g-grandfather went AWOL from his family in London for several years. According to family stories, he ended up living in Hereford and eventually a family member visiting the town bumped into him by chance and persuaded him to return to his wife. Sure enough, in 1921 he's working as a bookkeeper in Hereford. It's nice to have that one confirmed.
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