Who Do You Think You Are?

BIG QUESTION

How can I learn more about Jessie Fancourt and her parentage?

PAULINE STANLEY got in touch because she couldn’t find many traces of her relation in the records

Q I have a Jessie Fancourt in my tree, born about 1873, who married James Lovell on 14 May 1893. On Jessie’s marriage record, her father’s name is given as Charles Fancourt, but before

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