So far I've traced my direct ancestors back to a very small Dorset village called Stourton Caundle - it seemed a most melancholy place when I visited it in Autumn 2005, but bizarrely, something about it did rather stir my soul!

My grandfather, Frank Thomas Gillingham, and his 2 elder brothers, James (possibly Richard or Charles James?), and William Charles were all born there in the 1870s, as was their father Charles Gillingham c1841.

Does anyone have any information about what happened to these elder brothers? In the 1891 census they both are listed in Glamorgan, Wales, but beyond that nothing!