Interesting. I seem to have missed Ellen somewhere, I'll have to go back and hunt her down, and i hadn't clocked that May was deaf and dumb. Presumably it was some kind of hereditary thing I guess, from the Geoghegan side.

I've just established that Mrs Bennett was his daughter Annie by Mary Ann.

A lot of his children seemed to have died very young, which is funny when you think that he lived to be so old.

Possibly Dot is an alternative name for someone I reckon.