Okay back to Molly. I have chased a bunch of rabbits here. Not finished yet, BUT….I am now leaning towards this: (and his lovely wife Molly) is (LL) or Loretta Lynch. If we just remove the wrong name letters and don't try to fix them, we are left with and his lovely wife LL, in parentheses. Or if we remove all things Nellie related including "and his lovely wife M o y" we are then left with just two L's. Partners in crime maybe?
Spitballing /. Back to staring at other odd letters in those posts.