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Answers to last week's quiz: 1. Massachusetts 2. Orion 3. John Merrick 4. Baritone 5. Nine 6. UB40 7. Belmopan 8. Cornwall 9. Urdu 10. Parakeet 11. Australia 12. Gopher New quiz tomorrow.

Hello again WW! I've had another look at your query and I'm afraid I'm no nearer finding an answer. However, I was able to ascertain that Julia's father - Charles - did not marry twice. Infact, I can't find any record of marriage for him at all. If, as Eggy suggests, Julia's mother is Mary (nee Rump) then it is Mary who has previously been married. At the age of 26, on March 7 1864, Mary married John Farrow at the church of St. Julian in Norwich. They had one child - George Farrow who was baptised 7 October 1866 at Swanton Abbott in Norfolk and therefore probably born the same year. Unfortunately, John Farrow appears to have died within a cuple of years of his son's birth as he was buried 14 January 1869 at Swanton Abbott at the early age of 35 years leaving Mary a widow and George fatherless. A couple of years later, 1871, Mary and George are residing in Swanton Abbott at Dairy House, Hill Farm. This appears to be the home of Mary's father - Thomas who is also an agricultural worker. However, as Thomas himself is an elderly widow Mary, John and George may have lived there as a family prior to John's death. Charles, the son of Mary and Charles Hunt was born about 1876 and has the surname hunt so I assume that the couple married between 1871 and 1876. You may already have this information but if you do not have it and you would like the documentation I can send it to you as a personal message on this site.

It took me a minute or two ut the penny eventually dropped! hahahaha!