Rain and Research

 The morning was blessed with incessant heavy rain. We had no plans to venture out, so retired to our respective study areas. The Silver Vixen cracked on with her project, and the Gorse Fox returned to the Family Tree.

There was no specific research plan, today. The Gorse Fox picked one of the Silver Vixen's ancestors, almost randomly, and tried to fill in some more details. He worked across Ancestry, FindMyPast, and FamilySearch.com. There were a few promising leads but nothing about which he felt confident enough to commit to the database. He is still stuck at the Silver Vixen's (paternal) Great-great-grandfather. Whilst the family lived in Deptford in the late 1830s, they were born in Ireland. That is where the trail runs cold. Also, bearing in mind we know their whereabouts in 1839, they don't appear to be listed in any of the subsequent Census returns. It seems that the family of the Silver Vixen enjoys being historically enigmatic.

Mid-afternoon, the Gorse Fox received a call from Urban-cub. She needed to top up the oil in her car. She had bought the correct type of oil but wanted to make sure she put it in the correct place. The Gorse Fox went round to help. While he was there, he added a missing cam-lock to the cabinet that we built last week. There was one cam-lock missing in the self-assembly pack, so the Gorse Fox ordered some replacements from the nice man at Amazon. He wasn't too sure of the correct size, but it turns out that he guessed correctly, and the final drawer in the cabinet is now fixed properly.