[Margaret Pilkington]

Thank you Retlaw...I haven't gone quite as far back as when the calendar changed in 1752...but I am getting close to it.
I haven't been doing this for very long(though I have'dabbled' to help others in the past)but already I have gone down a few long lanes and found myself in entirely the wrong place.

I try to have more than one source of evidence(not always possible) before I can definitely say that their leaf belongs on my tree.
It has been strange at times because very infrequently I find someone born in Epping ending up in a Clayton line.
Then I looked at the occupations...the chap in question was an engine driver on the early railways.
Another one of our ancestors on Ma's side was a travelling showman...so he pops up on the census in a few different places.

It is certainly entertaining, but also brain fagging too.