I haven't been around much as I have a few years ago been diagnosed with a very rare condition that is calcifying my brain, sadly and I forget all the time. It appears that I have had this since 1990 but it was undiagnosed. I am sorry if I haven't answered any emails but will definitely get around to it hopefully soon.

I have come across a name as my g.g.g grandmother was born in Buxton, or Barton in Norfolk about 1792, and I have been trying to find out more information about her. Her name was Mary Ulph and she married Robert Bond c 1820. Robert was a Schoolmaster and she had 6 children with him......Mary born 1820 Thomas born 1821, Hilary born 1823, Margaret Sarah born 1825, Robert born 1827 and Susan born 1830.

Susan married Thomas Pinnington and emigrated to Australia, with him. Thomas & Susan spent a short while in Melbourne awhile after their 3 children were born. While there her sister Mary emigrated to Australia (she had married a Mr Butcher) but after he passed away. Mary then acted as their housekeeper and after Susan died he married Mary. No one in our family knew that the two were sisters until I got Mary's death certificate.

I haven't been able to find out when she died or whom her parents were - hence this email. In the 1851 census both Mary Bond aged 59, and Elizabeth Pinnington aged 52 were both residents of Morden College and both were widows. I have since found out that they both were pensioners, but in the 1861 Census it appears that Mary was with her daughter Margaret Sarah Malyon in Chertsey, along with Margaret's 2 children. I have tried to find out when and where Mary died so I can get her death certificate but I have come up against a brick wall each time.

Any advice would be gratefully accepted.
Kind Regards,
Judy (Ausiejude) Australia