I've just woken up at 10 o'clock!
Mind you, I didn't go to bed until gone five. I finally plugged a hole in the family tree (what on earth my East London girl was doing in Castle Hedingham in 1804, I don't know!) which had been bugging me for years, because I just *knew* that a certain Thomas Hale, who was *baptized* 1830 in Stepney with a Limehouse address for the parents, but is convinced that he was *born* in Brighton (except in the 1891 census, when he's marked as blind, so he didn't fill that one in himself), was one of my lot, but I didn't have the evidence, and if I don't have evidence, the person doesn't get included.
Having found what I'd been looking for, I started chasing up the rest of that branch, and I'm terrible when I get a lead on something, I take absolutely no notice of time and just keep going until I eventually fall asleep at the PC, hit my head on the desk, which wakes me up momentarily, and stagger off to bed!
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...the euphemism used here for such "ladies" is "Chicken".
Oi! That's my family you're talking about! What with my Hackney girls (who must have bought a job lot of blouses from the market with "Willing for a shilling" embroidered on them) and some of my Suffolk lot, I have so many birth or baptism records with no father recorded that I'm surprised I've traced
anything in some lines.
It's a nice respectable family, of course - there's a vicar who shacked up with his niece and had ten illegitimate kids, a couple who "married" by 1896 if you believe them, then the marriage eventually turns up in 1933 when the fellow's
real wife dies, a woman who appears as the wife of one fellow in 1901, but then decides that she fancies his brother, so becomes the brother's "wife" in the 1911 census, with the first brother actually telling the truth for a change, he says "married but living apart", a fellow who dies in 1908 but is "resurrected" for the 1911 census, because his wife, who probably didn't even know he was dead - they'd parted company in the 1890s - has since shacked up with a married man and he's using her late husband's name, all sorts!