Could a Professor of Mesmerism help uncover the secret of the Mysterious Grandmother?
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Content Warning: Suicide We're on the trail of the mysterious grandmother, Christine Cambridge . She was adopted by Daniel and Sandys Rann in Birmingham but never knew her birth parents . Within our family, we'd always thought Christine must have been related to the Ranns, and there were two main candidates: their daughter Caroline and Daniel's sister Annie. Caroline and Annie seem to have been quite a team. In 1881, around the time Christine was been conceived, the 14-year-old niece and 40-year-old aunt were living on Church Street in Birmingham. They had a maid but no visible means of support. You can draw your own conclusions. Annie claimed to be unmarried on this census and she repeated the lie when she married a brewer called Charles Davis in 1883. Annie's first husband, a chandelier-maker called Thomas Jones (d. 1878) must have slipped her mind. At the time of the next census in 1891, Caroline and Annie (widowed again) were running the Waverley Hotel on New Meet