"Ancestral Chains, Battersby Bloodline: Dna Part 2 of 8"

Kate Battersby is my great-grandmother on my father’s father’s side. Six years after my great-grandfather, Walter George Bishop became independent, he married her - on 12 October 1887, at Brighton Registry Office. Both were 24 and she was pregnant. Kate Bishop, nee Battersby, was the daughter of Edwin Battersby, a Lewes Probate Office clerk, while Walter George Bishop’s dad, John Bishop, was a Cabinet Maker. How my great-grandfather ended up in flamboyant Brighton in the late 1880s and what on earth he was doing there is a mystery that perhaps never will (or never should, perhaps) be unravelled, but it does rather demonstrate another plane to his character; a field that ever-risqué Brighton was to also play for me some 100 years later. And what of this great-grandmother of mine, Kate Bishop, perhaps she and her ancestry are not all that meets the eye. Well, thanks to Victorian bureaucrats and their fastidious record keeping, more is now known about her and her ancestry than she probably knew about herself.