Thanks again. Going to visit a relative who just might have something more to go on. Will follow this one up when I get back.

Thanks Peter. Looked at findmypast but main links appear to be regimental and I am sure, as a farming family, this is unlikely. Freebmd is no good for her birth as she was born in Italy. I do have marriage and death certificates but they don't give any more info to help with place of birth.

My grandmother was Angelina (Joanna Maria) Cordani born in Italy in 1883. I understand she came to Liverpool with another family who had an ice cream business and worked for them to start with. I don't know when. My first concrete evidence is the birth of her first child in dec 1915, Lina registered ...