Who When Where

You get a similar insight from the notebooks Booth made for his poverty maps.
One of mine had a note to say her son was a drunkard, and a thoroughly loathsome man. Can’t get much clearer than that, he certainly didn’t pull his punches

At a complete guess, Relationship Not Stated. Seems to fit the scenario.

Given that the 1921 census lists his birthplace as "Poplar" consider there may have been some confusion. After all, his parents lived at Poplar Cottages in Isleworth, as per the 1901 census. Maybe John Lee had the name "Poplar" on the brain when the 1921 census was done? Did you...

Norfolk Nan,
I know that area well, my parents etc came from Limehouse, and some of them also came from Ireland

Norfolknan,
In case you are not aware, the 1921 census can be a bit more specific when stating place of birth. My ggmother was shown variously as being born in Ireland, or Cork. It wasn’t until 1921 that her place of birth was stated to be Skibbereen, (a parish in Cork).

Hardwork,
Not too uncommon! The husband of one of my 1st cousins, is also related to me via one of our (my cousin and I) GGAunts!

Do you feel relieved to have the answer? Well, before we found the common ancestor, it did cause me to doubt the efficacy of DNA testing :D It does annoy me when people publish their DNA without linking it to a tree. What is the point, or are they so selfish that they are relying on others to find ...

I took a DNA test quite a few years ago, and had problems with one of my close matches (2nd-3rd cousin). Despite us both having reasonable sized trees, we couldn’t find a match, all we knew was the match was somewhere in my mothers tree. She has just found out that from another distant relative of m...

Wiltshire Baptisms Index 1530-1917 transcriptions were created by both Findmypast and Wiltshire Family History Society. The "blank" records in question could be the result of problems occurring during the transcriptions conversion process as they were uploaded to So its technical issue ra...

Haven’t the foggiest, no names or dates, who knows