New here. Sorry if this is repeating anything anyone else has already posted.
Do we need to be researching Helen and Valentine any deeper?
Or just the fact that they Helen (nee Ashman - married John in 1942, btw) was John Wilde’s wife and Valentine was on the SS Muskogee that sunk good enough?
Is there a connection between them? Or to future clues? What happened when they DIDN’T die…
Or am I creating an artificial rabbit hole?
First of all, WELCOME! As you can see, there are a lot of moving parts so all the help you can provide is wonderful.
And those are some very good questions. It’s difficult to suss out which clues fit with others sometimes. There are some clues that we’ve found that might not come into play right away.
I think researching Helen and Valentine are good ideas, but if all the records in this world show that they died, there may not be much to find. I do know that references to Helen’s death often say it was “tragic” but there’s no description of how she died. At least none that I can find. There might be a clue there that can help us along the way. Maybe something that helps with the “Dirge” fragment? Not sure.
Im pretty sure the last clue means we need to look for the oldest date of death but the person was a child.
Also the year the person died correspond to the other clue but theres a big jump in years from around 1950 to 1901 after the phrase tick tock, might be something there,