Talking to a cousin last night, who is a little older than us and who remembers some long-deceased relatives, we began to talk about the Brown family from Bletchingley. Our connection was with the youngest, Augusta who was born in 1891. Brown is a not an uncommon name so trying to trace a John Brown for instance can be a little tricky.
Our cousin mentioned an Aunty Nancy who had two daughters, and an Aunty Daisy; did I know where they fitted in the family tree? I couldn’t find a Nancy Brown who may have married to become something else… but there was an Amanda, and Amanda could have become Nancy, so was Aunty Nancy Amanda Emily Brown? I know Aunty Nancy had daughters called Joan and Renee, so I looked up marriages and eventually found that Amanda had married Archibald Roots (what a name!) and had two daughters, Joan and Irene who became Renee. So that was one branch resolved… but what about Aunty Daisy? I can find no Daisy in our family tree… and have even searched through all the Margarets which is the name that Daisy comes from, apparently… so an unresolved branch…
Researching a family tree leads to a lot of dead ends… but sometimes you have to go back to the beginning; the cousin who told me about Aunty Daisy, has a sister… so I shall ask the sister and see if she can reveal the secret of Aunty Daisy!
Lois Elsden 
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