Still rolling

 It was a very relaxed start to the day. No alarm, no visitors, just the Silver Vixen and Gorse Fox getting up and about as we were ready. The Silver Vixen had a coffee date with the Stitch Witch but the Gorse Fox had nothing planned.

Once a few domestic chores were out of the way and the Silver Vixen had left for here date, the Gorse Fox returned to his study.

The first task was to find and record extra detail of the people identified yesterday as the Silver Vixen's ancestors. This took a while, but I is nice to get the detail on record. Once this was done, the Gorse Fox ranged across several Genealogy sources to try and find additional details of the individuals in question. In so doing, he has managed, speculatively, to drive the family tree back two further generations. The difficulty is that the Gorse Fox still has to find evidence to change ti details from speculation to fact. The problem is that in the 1500s and 1600s there were few data architects who cared about recording data and linking it both forwards and backwards through generations. Fortunately, however, the families with which we are dealing stayed in a very small area over a number of generations. This, though, introduced ambiguity as they seemed to have very little imagination when it came to naming children. this means that we have, at any one time, several families with the same family name who have children with the same Christian name.The Gorse Fox is still try to work out how he will disambiguate these names.

For now he is happy that he has drive the research to the Silver Vixen's 9 x gt-grandparents who married in 1601in Pilton, Somerset.