Further to the last message posted I have researched these families quite extensively and have found out about the circumstances of my paternal grandmothers demise. It seems that the family were living under the auspices of the South Stoneham Union in Eckowe Villas in what is now Dt Denys, Southampton. She had 3 sons in quick succession and at the end of 1881 was committed to Knowle Lunatic Asylum in Fareham suffering from "melancholis" - this is what we would now call post natal depression. She spent the next 10 years there dying in the summer of 1891. Both my paternal Grandparents were one of 8 siblings and so I would have hoped to find someone with family info - have recently discovered that my uncle Hamilton Denman Groom was in Australia (Sydney) in the 1930s and married to a Lucy. Maybe hear from someone out there - thanks....Tim Groome