Greetings from New Z

Greetings from New Zealand
 Pauline Allen from New Zealand has an aunt that lives in Lincolnshire.  Just to show you what good taste aunt has she sends Pauline cuttings from the Lincolnshire Echo.  The name she is interested in is that of MORPHUS.  Apart from the origin of the name she is trying to find out  what happened to George William who was born in Bulwell in 1899.  The only family detail that she has is that he might have died in 1947 but where.  In 1881 there were just three families in the whole of the country with this name so there is a good chance that this is a change of spelling due to the accent used.  The website FreeBMD although not yet finished gave me the information that there was a George aged 0 who died in September Quarter of 1902 in Nottingham District.  A few months later there is the death of Emma aged 35.  The mother perhaps dying due to infection.  Marriages on FreeBMD of which there are few gave me Emma PIDDUCK marrying Samuel MORPHUS in 1889 in Basford.  There are a total of 8 births in Nottinghamshire - all boys. However three of these are after the death of Emma.  Did Samuel marry again?  The name is most likely to be MALPASS and as the name is most prevalent in the west country my guess is that as the two Nottinghamshire MALPASS heads of family came from Gloucestershire this could be the original area for the family.  Malpass arrived around the 13th century as the French gave places that were difficult to travel over the name.  The Old French mal pas is a bad passage.
A book recently sold on eBay that I would have liked to buy is that of the life of Thomas  LIDGETT printed in 1908.  It is described as  One of Lincolnshire's best known men as written by himself.  Modest too!  LIDGETT was born in Rothwell, a village near Caistor in 1844, and wrote this book shortly before his death in 1908. This is a wonderful historical account of Lincolnshire life in Victoria times. He became a preacher and travelled widely, including to Switzerland.  "About the age of three and a half, I went with my mother to Moortown station to go to Hull. I thought when in the train we were not moving, but that the stacks, trees etc., were running past us in a desperate hurry". "At sixteen years of age I went to live with a farmer in Thoresway Parish named Surfleet". This 55 page book has 5 b/w photographs of LIDGETT. I’ll bet there aren’t many copies of this one about.  The early references to the LIDGETT name all use the additional de or atte.  This confirms the idea that it is from someone who lived near a swing gate from the Old English hlidgeat.  
Bits and Bobs
Spilsby Petty Sessions - 25 September 1848 - Sarah HOUGHTON, of Wainfleet All Saints, applied for an order in bastardy against Luke WALKER of Ingoldmells. Mr. MERRIFIELD appeared for the defendant, and Mr. THIMBLEBY for the plaintiff: after hearing the case (which evinced considerable depravity on the part of the defendant, who is a widower with a family of nine children, while the plaintiff is a poor half-witted girl of seventeen), the bench made an order for 2s weekly and expenses.