Gmail emails becoming muddled up in Mail

I use btinternet and gmail which I access in my iPad 4 Mail.  Up to recently this has been fine and I have had no problem moving mail from my gmail inbox into specific folders for work purposes.  However a few days ago I started to do this then later went to check that everything was in the correct folder.  i was shocked to find that many of the emails had had the names of the senders and recipients changed.  So for instance an email I had sent to someone else appeared to have been sent to me by one of the recipients.  An email that had been sent to me by one person was showing that it had been sent by another person entirely.
i downloaded the gmail app and everything was correct although it was doing that annoying clumping together of emails although I gad specifically disabled organise by thread and labels.  I had also disabled organise by thread in a Mail.
if anyone has a solution to this I would be grateful if they could let me know.  It is a disaster in terms of having required correct coupes of email messages sent and received.

Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.

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