When researching family history, one of the golden rules is often said to be to ‘avoid going down rabbit holes’, meaning do not go off the track of what you are actually trying to research. But I disagree (unless you are on a deadline of course!). Sometimes, the most interesting stories can be found down rabbit holes. Recently, I have been researching the 1838 and 1848 Census records with the aim of producing detailed maps of Westbury for those years - just ten and twenty years after the arrival of the first military regiment (stay tuned for the final product!)....