Hello Wilcoxon and WRJ
Thanks for your comments.
Just for the record Wilcoxon, the Elizabeth living in as a housemaid you mention is living with the Sarah b 1807 mentioned in my first post. She married John Bythell , and I am in touch with a descendant of theirs, as we are trying to piece it all together. She also states her father as James the tailor. But there is an entry for Elizabeth b 1876 in Abenbury Fawr and in 1851 she states'tailor's widow washer woman living in her own house'. In 1861 she is living with her daughter Mary who married Edward Griffiths in 1852. Another son of Elizabeth turns up in 1881 living with Mary Griffiths daughter Elizabeth who by then is married to George Edwards, he is described as Robert Taylor age 60 Uncle. I have followed these families as well as I can through the censuses and Martha and Margaret (noted as twins in 1851) are I believe the ones Wilcoxon mentions. Martha marries Robert Thomas of Aldford Cheshire in 1860. The cheshire parish records show this and she states her father James a tailor, as does Maria when she married Richard Thomas of Aldford in 1856. Maria is in Pickhill as a servant in 1851, not living with her mother. These along with those shown on the 1851 census are all the children of Elizabeth I have identified so far .
I started looking for the twins as I thought they would be easiest to spot in the registers,but no. Now they are a mystery instead of a solution! It is intriguing.
In the interests of genealogy all I really need is someone who could look up a marriage for James and Elizabeth, however with there being so much confusion over when the marriage might have taken place I can see this could be difficult.
Lidgett