At ScotlandsPeople, I bump into a record that stops me in my tracks. I’m looking for any last mentions of my 2x great-grandmother Emma Susannah Riboldi, née Welch, and her second husband John de Neef. Far as I know, they had no children together before Emma died in Glasgow in February 1882. I was idly wondering how long John had stayed in Scotland after her death, so I widened the date range a little.
Whoa! What’s this?
The birth registration of a boy named John Welch de Neef. Really?! For a split second I’m confused and think he must be Emma and John’s child, but then I see the date, 1885. So no, he can’t be, but there’s surely some connection, isn’t there?
I fritter away six credits to view