When one thing leads to another...
QI am wondering whether you can suggest where I can research my great-grandmother to give me some information about her blindness. On all the available censuses, she is not listed as blind.
(The 1921 Census does not require a person to identify a disability.) Her son, my grandfather (born 1908), alwaysLillian with her husband and children, as recorded on the 1921 Census. Angie had hoped that this census would provide information about Lillian’s blindness recollected her being blind, however, and a family portrait (taken circa 1914) seems to depict her with lack of sight. My thoughts go to her possibly contracting a serious illness (perhaps scarlet fever or measles), which might have caused her blindness, but I can’t find any records of such.
Any clues that might allow me to surmise the reason for her blindness would help.
