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That's excellent, Christina, thank you. Would you say this was likely to be a hotel / lodging house? William taking in lodgers to help pay for help with the kids as his wife is no longer with him? I suppose it could be a well-to-do house with servants. Is there any way to tell?

And that death record ties up another loose end, thank you again Christina. It confirms the middle name as Elizabeth, my mother referred once to an Aunt Lizzie and another time to an Aunt Annie but told the same storey for each, suggesting they might be the same person. She was buried at St Andrews Church, White Sheet Hill, Beaminster I believe - is there any way to check where the Annie in the death record you found is buried?

Looking at the images(there are two of them), Martha and Annie have filled in their own form (signed by Annie E Stacey) ....and state relation to head as Visitor. Theirs are the only names on this form.

William MacKendrick is a Director of an Oil Company, employing a Governess and 3 Servants.

Hugh Robinson is a visting Solicitor.

William's address is The Cedars. Martha And Annie's address is Thornton House.

So it doesn't look as though they are in the same property, both of which have eleven rooms.

Perhaps both houses were owned by William MacKendrick?

It just says buried in the parish of Beaminster.

Ceremony performed by J H Stonehouse.

Annie Elizabeth Stacey.

Abode Beaminster (died at 1 Bedford Place, Bridport.)

Buried on the 9th November 1943.

Age 76.

Thank you for checking the images, Christina, there's wealth of detail there, isn't there! I'll try looking on google street view to look at the houses - although without a number it may be difficult (if the house stil exists of corse).

Just going back to your comment about there being another JHS - one thing to consider is that he could have been christened when he was older??????

Yes, Lynski, that would be possible, and that would give me his mother's name. To gain confidence in this interpretation I'd like to find JHS's marriage record.

Marriages Mar 1865 (>99%)
Chick Martha Beaminster 5a 553
Stacey John Hamilton Beaminster 5a 553

Have you got their marriage certificate?

Have you seen this marriage?

It could have something to do with John's middle name???

groom's name: John Stacey
bride's name: Ann Hamilton
marriage date: 11 Jun 1835
marriage place: Beaminster, Dorset, England
indexing project (batch) number: M15803-1
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1279479

That's it! Terriffic Lyn, thank you!

For Stacey - Chick I have the marriage record but not the marriage certificate.

name: John Hamilton Stacey
event: Marriage
event date: 23 Feb 1865
event place: St Mary's, Beaminster, Dorset, England
gender: Male
marital status: Single
father: John Stacey
spouse: Martha Chick
spouse's marital status: Single
spouse's father: John Chick
digital folder number: 004508391

But the Stacey - Hamilton link is the explanation for the "Hamilton Stacey" that keeps on cropping up of which there are three of which I am aware.

Thank you very much, Lyn!

So now, off we go again looking for Ann's and John's details.