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I can understand the mix up with the Puddy family as it is very extensive.  I started to make a spreadsheet with births, marriages and deaths recorded on it.  Unfortunately, I had a crash on my external hard drive and lost everything.  I paid a lot of money to get it all restored and thought all was OK but a lot of the file was missing although there was still some of it there.  It has been very hard trying to pick it all  up again.

I am stuck on one part of my tree which is why I started the spreadsheet but so far still not convinced that some of the entries on mine and other dna matches trees are correct.  Maybe I can pick it up again in the winter months.

Many thanks for your lengthy response to my Rogers query: your suggestion that William Lyant was the reason for her death is the most plausible I have come across so far.

Thank you for your time and effort.

https://wsmfhs.org/2024/11/15/miss-rogers-and-the-sea-captain/

re WWI:  I found documents relating to my maternal GF trying to claim for a disability pension - he had been shot in the groin...hence his capture and consequent internment in German POW camps.  My mum always enjoyed looking at information that I found out about her father (she was a "daddy's girl") - but I did not show her this particular document as it mentioned his treatment for syphilis!!  The disability pension claims are at TNA.

What are the dates of the certificates? 

I assume you are looking at Samuel SPERRIN at No 36 St James Street in 1881.  The numbers in this street changed in around 1908 and on the 1911 Census Samuel SPERRIN is listed at 9 Richmond Street but when he signs he gives his address as 16 St James Street which is on the corner of St James Street and Richmond Street.

from Ancestry 1911 Census Weston-super-Mare.

You might be able to check this by looking at Street Directories for early 20th Century.