Hi Paul
Thanks for your reply. I have Emblings marriage (sometimes calling herself Emaley or Emily) in 1834 at Hanley, Stafford, but I do not know why she had gone from Cullompton. I wondered whether she had gone to work there?
The family seem fairly comfortable in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census, with their own butchers business supporting servants and apprentices.
When Samuel dies, it seems that their older son George, continues to manage the business as he is listed in Parliament Row, Hanley in 1871 as master butcher. Again, his wife Lucy and him, have servants and apprentices.
Embling, as a widow, is back in Samuel Masseys birth place of Stoke Heath, Stoke Upon Tern in 1871 as a farmer of game (I think it reads). All three children born to Samuel and Embling were christened in Stoke Upon Tern.
In 1881, I can see Embling living with her son, George, and daughter in law, Lucy, in Camberwell, Surrey. George is described as 'of private means'.
I unfortunately have no information of how Embling is in Sandy, Biggleswade, when she dies in 1885, this is 50 miles from Camberwell? I have looked for a monumental incription online, but havent found anything yet.
I had assumed that Emblings youngest son, was named after his uncle Ambrose Shere, maybe as Mary Ann did not have any children with her husband? Embling named her first son after her husbands father George, who farmed in Stoke Upon Tern, and the middle son after her father, John.
Best wishes
Mar