Mystery Solved - Anne Elizabeth Ayres has been found

This morning our wonderful postman posted two birth certificates through my door.  One was completely incorrect (to be honest I have no idea why I even ordered it but hey ho).  The other was for a Samuel Arthur Williams born in Tissington, Derbyshire on 22nd January 1897

His father was Robert Williams and his mother was...... wait for it...... Annie Elizabeth Williams late Major formerly Ayres!!! Yep you've guessed it, I have finally found my Great Great Grandmother.  The certificate proves what I had been told that she had moved away with Robert Williams.  This certificate shows that she was in Derbyshire and had taken Robert's name.  It's important to remember that her son Walter Edward Major (1892 - 1949) was only 4 or 5 years old when this other child was born and as we know that Annie registered his birth we can surmise that Annie left Timothy Major between 1892 and 1896 (this is assuming she had left him when she fell pregnant).

So with this in mind it would be interesting to find out how they met and how she came to leave her family, including 7 children, for this other man.  Without oral histories we may never know.  However at least she has now been found and, it puts a lot of the newspaper reports about the family left in Helmdon into context.