While we've learned much about EWTH, there are still many unresolved mysteries.  The primary question still unresolved is: What became of Trig's half-brothers and their families, if any, from his father’s first marriage?   Or of half-brother Eric Lester from EWTH’s second marriage?  Or of Trig’s niece (the daughter of EWTH’s sister, Eleanor Griffiths)?  It's likely that there are contemporary descendants of these people who would be Trig's half nephews/nieces or grand nephews/nieces.  One possible clue as to why EWTH's first two sons are missing from the 1901 census:  Trig remembers his father went often to France.   Might relatives there have been taking care of EWTH’s and Alice’s sons after they separated around the turn of the century?  EWTH’s first cousin, James III (the dentist) had married a woman whose parents were Parisians.

Another puzzle is: Where, starting as he did, did EWTH's demonstrated wealth and "urbanity" come from?   Where and how was he educated?  He had to have been a quite accomplished person to have warranted his quick rise and very successful career in the Masons.  For that matter, what propelled his whole branch of the Hoare family from their relatively humble status in the mid-1800's, to becoming solidly middle-class in just one generation?  Was there indeed a familial connection to the Hoare Bank?   Or to the Hoare & C° Brewing concern?  EWTH's inheritance from the sale of the Star Tavern seems unlikely to have been sufficient of itself to have funded his life of leisure as a country gentleman.

EWTH was a most gregarious man, and was well established in his Masonic circles in London.  Yet in 1898, at the age of 34, he pulled up stakes to move to Axmouth, Devon.   Did the undefined "scandal" force him into exile?

And why in particular did he choose Devon?   Indeed there were several Hoare families living in the area, with given names including James, William and Edward (one located in Musbury, the name EWTH gave the house he bought).  But whatever links may exist between these family branches would be pre-1800, a period beyond the reach of this study's scope.  Searches through local records in churches and town halls would be required.  Many such records are indeed available in microfilm from the Mormons, but have not been digitized so are searchable only by plowing through them, one handwritten page at a time.

EWTH sold his Musbury house in 1914.  He kept its cottages until 1919 but rented them out.  We have no data on where he lived after quitting Axmouth and his marriage in 1922 in Exeter.  His Masonic activity during that period was reduced almost to nil.

Another vexing question revolves about EWTH’s father: Was he named Edward Treadaway Hoare?… or was his name Edmund Downer Hoare.  

There’s an 1837 birth certificate for Edmund Downer Hoare, father James Treadaway Hoare, mother Jane née Hill;  no such certificate is listed in the GRO index for an Edward (though it's just at that time that the GRO collection of vital statistics records first started).

That family of three, including Edmund is listed in the 1841 census.    

In the 1851 census, Edward, 14, is shown to be living alone with his "widowed" mother Jane Hoare;  James ("II"), 15, was shown living nearby, alone with his grandmother, Ann Downer.  Clearly the boys' father, James ("I") had died.

Amelia Emma Pyle's 1861 Marriage Certificate records her husband as being Edward Treadaway Hoare, age 23;  Edward's father was given as James Treadaway Hoare.  

The references in the birth and marriage certificates to "father" James Treadaway Hoare are certainly for the same man;  and the ages of the sons, Edward and Edmund, coincide.

In 1864, EWTH's Birth Certificate lists Edward Tredaway (sic) as his father (and Emma as his mother).

All subsequent documents - census and certificates - associated with the family however specify Emma’s husband and EWTH’s father as Edmund Downer Hoare.

All, that is, until EWTH's 1927 Death Certificate, on which EWTH’s widow Elsie named EWTH's father as Edward William Hoare.

Explanation?   Edmund Downer Hoare was most probably the same person as Edward Treadaway Hoare.   There's no evidence of the two men existing at the same time, nor is there a record of the death in the late 1860's of Edward (if there were, Edward's place as head of the family might conceivably have been assumed by his putative twin, Edmund).  So why the name change?  

What might have happened:  

In 1843, five years after the birth of Edmund Downer, an Edmund Cutler Hoare is recorded to have been born in the same neighborhood as Edmund Downer, to a James Hoare and Sarah Ann née Culer (sic).   This father James was surely James I, inasmuch as.....

An Edmund of the corresponding age (18) to this Cutler boy was listed in the 1861 census as "brother", living in the household of  James Treadaway Hoare, born ~ 1836, who was assuredly a son of James Treadaway Hoare I.

This "brother" Edmund is mentioned in no further censuses, so must have died (or emigrated) between the 1861 and 1871 censuses.

It looks as if around 1840, James I, Edmund Downer's father, divorced Emma and married Sarah Ann Cutler, siring another son whom he also named Edmund (Cutler).   This may have led Edmund Downer's mother to change her son’s name from Edmund to Edward, either to avoid confusion (the families were neighbors) or simply out of pique.  Eventually, when Edmund Cutler left the picture sometime in the late 1860's, the provisionally-renamed Edward reverted to his birth name of Edmund.  

The entry of "Edward William"  (EWTH's names) as Father of the Deceased on EWTH's death certificate, may have been due to the understandable distraction of the widow, or even a simple clerical error.