The following email was sent to me by Moira Gilfeather and it reaffirms why I enjoy doing these websites so much. You can just feel her excitement in her email and I know that we have all felt that excitement when we have made a new family discovery. I do hope that we can all help her in her research. I think she is on to something here. And while I am trying to sort it all out...I hope some of you will try to do that as well. Many thanks to Moira for writing and I hope we hear from her again. Hi, Have just discovered your super website. I will try to be brief although I can hardly contain my excitement! I am Moira Gilfeather (nee Bull). I live in North Ayrshire - on the west coast of Scotland. I was born and brought up in Manchester, England. My mother was MOLLIE NASH - born in 1910 - youngest child of ROBERT HAWKER NASH and JESSIE RAWSTHORNE. ROBERT - born in 1864 at Liswerry, Monmouthshire - was the second son of ROBERT HAWKER NASH and LOUISA SAMBROOK. ROBERT senior was baptised in the Parish of Newland in 1828. His mother was ANN NASH described as a 'single woman' and her 'abode' was CLEARWELL. I struggled to find ANN for ages - I looked at every census from 1851 onwards but could not find anyone in the Forest who fitted the criteria and I eventually just assumed that she must have married. Then a few weeks ago I accessed the 1841 census on the Origins website and everything fell into place - I think and hope! I found ANN NASH, single, aged 30 living with her father RICHARD, aged 60, Iron Miner; mother MARY, 55, and siblings REUBEN 23 and GEORGE, both Iron Miners; MARY 15 and SUSAN 9, at Park End Walk, Clements Green, Clearwell. Also in this census I found ROBERT aged 12 living with his father, THOMAS HAWKER who was from BREAM (the next village 'down the line' from CLEARWELL), his wife ELIZABETH and younger half-siblings in Christchurch, Monmouthshire. ANN does not appear to have stayed in the Forest but I really need to go down and look at Parish Records to hopefully find out more. I found an Ann Nash in the 1861 Census - aged 50 - a servant in a house in Marylebone, London (born in Gloucestershire) but I am not convinced it's her. However I suppose it's quite likely that an unmarried daughter would go into service to help relieve the burden on a poor household at that time. Like everyone else, I have tracked the rest of the family via every census after that but I found Matt's 'Hypotheses....." very interesting. I, too, had suspected that WILLIAM was a son of RICHARD but had wondered who's widow CHARLOTTE was. I note that RICHARD senior was still alive in 1861 - aged 83 (an amazing age for an Iron Miner) living with his son REUBEN and family at 7 Cinderford Road, East Dean. He must have died at some point in the 1860's but I haven't as yet found any record of his death. Hope my contribution is worthwhile. Kindest regards and thanks again for your great website. Moira