[Merry]

Typically I already knew his dob from a book of birthdays kept by his daughter-in-law!

I really must get myself sorted out here - I just went to have a look for the Birthday Book - it wasn't where it should be (so where's that gone??!) - but in it's place was an envelope which contains a lock of his hair and that of his wife (I'm not sure which is which - one white and the other dark brown - I guess his is the dark brown - slightly creepy! lol) - I'd seen this envelope several times before, but now there is another tiny envelope inside it, which wasn't there the other times I'd looked, which contains the hair of his mother-in-law - my 3xg-grandmother, Mary Smith née Tyler, who died of consumption in 1841. The first strawberry blonde in the family!!