Appendix Four

Unresolved mysteries

There are some loose ends as follows:

1) I never discovered what became of Denis Herring Gaunt, other than that he emigrated to Vancouver, and possibly married. I do know that he was probably registered as deaf. Nor do I know what happened to his brother Ernest Gaunt, and Ernest's wife Veronica (surname unknown). All three are mentioned in their mother's will, and Ernest has the cryptic word ‘Africa' written against his name in May Pottinger's notes.

2) I never discovered – or rather, Rosalie Raine never discovered, since she did all the research - what finally became of Elizabeth Hindley's daughter and Alice Hindley's children in Australia. The Hindley family is the only one with which I have had no first-hand contact.

3) As noted in Appendix 3, I never succeeded in tracing Evelyn Greenwell's half-sister, Ethel Johnstone.

4) I never discovered what became of the daughter, Doreen Raine, whom May Raine gave up for adoption in 1933.

5) I never discovered what became of Isobel (Collin) Braithwaite's three children, and their children.

6) I suspect that I have a photograph of Mary Jane (Greenwell) Hindley, but this remains conjecture.

Otherwise...