Shadows But As Lights Unfolding: Fruitless Days

This was one of those days that took me nowhere. It's not the first and it won't be the last. How incredibly annoying to be chasing dead lead after dead lead, only to end up with eye strain and a headache.

I have been trying desperately to find George Adam's first wife - for there was one before Isabella - and they had a son named Thomas together. It has been assumed that she died in childbirth, but we don't know for certain.

It's a little thing I wanted to tidy up before getting back to Isabella and the Pearces, but it's ended up taking hours and hours of fruitless work. No more of that though. It can wait until I get access to the mass of records online under subscription.

So, to make myself feel better, I am uploading some pictures of the Isle of Portland and Chesil Beach before I go to bed. I took these on our recent trip to England. There is one of the Church of St. George - literally, a drive-by shot taken from the car with me thinking how pretty it was (all that beautiful Portland stone), not knowing that a few months later I would be wishing I'd had several hours there to view parish records and gravestones. It is the only C. of E. church on the 'Tophill' part of Portland, so I am assuming it was the setting for all the Pearce rituals since it was built.

Back to Portland and Isabella Bathsheba tomorrow.