Wonder if a connection with Richard & Dorcas Lane ( m. 1840) also of Longhope see 1851.

Could Alfred be related to them and brought up with Silas & Ann for some reason /son of one of their daughters perhaps.

Silas also had a daughter named Dorcas Constance who went to London & married a Mr Probert.

There are a couple of candidates for an Alfred Lane b. Somerset around right time.

Hezekiah Constance may also have m. an Eliza Ellen Lane Free Bmd 1852 .

Could it be that the Lanes just took Alfred in after his father died?

More to think about

Patsy