My Maternal Granddad was George Wheatland. We all came from Croydon. We had an Uncle Foster, my grandads brother who lived in Croydon. We also had an Aunty Alice. A very god fearing lady. When I searched a while ago specifically for a link to the name Foster which is a very unusual forename I found it to be linked to Wheatland and that makes sense to why I had an Uncle Foster. I found the first link of Foster Wheatland at Burnt House Cottage Shipley. I too wondered why Ollive would marry someone much younger. But you have to remember that in those days you couldn't just move from one town, parrish to another. You had to have a job there or a good enough connection or there would be a removal order made to remove you back to your parrish of birth. It's possible that if Ollive lost her husband (I assume of surname Biggs) she may well have remarried William Wheatland or she might have ended up in the poor house. William may have been happy to marry to enable him to stay in the village of Ifield. It is possible that having lost her husband, Ollive ended living with the Kilners in Ifield where Charles Ifield was born. he married William and had his child. I think she went to Ifield because she had some connection to Mary Ann Kilner who was born in Rusper where here Biggs children were born. Then they all moved to Shipley where William came from just before the cenus. Only theories. I assumed the step children Julia, Foster and Henry all changed their name from Biggs to Wheatland and are probably connected to the Foster, Alice, George Wheatland (my grandad) from Croydon as this is the only line where the name Foster and Wheatland exists. So if you are descendants from William Wheatland who married Olive (Biggs) Wheatland then you are also descended from a Famous lady from Bognor in the link below. If you are descended from Julia, Foster or Henry, this isn't going to help you much.
http://www.bognor.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/beach-life-was-a-lot-safer-when-mary-was-around-1-6976763Burnt House Cottage:
RG9/ Piece: 609/ Folio: 77/ Page: 17 & 18
Head: William WHEATLAND 23, Ag Lab, b Shipley, Sussex
Wife: Ollive WHEATLAND 42, b Newdigate, Surrey
Step-Dau: Julia BIGGS 21, b Rusper, Sussex
Step-Son: Foster BIGGS 10, Scholar, b Rusper, Sussex
Step-Son: Henry BIGGS 8, Scholar, b Rusper, Sussex
Step-Son: William BIGGS 6, Scholar, b Rusper, Sussex
Step-Son: John BIGGS 2, b Rusper, Sussex
Daughter: Ellen WHEATLAND 5 mths, b Ifield,
(this is probably "Emma" of the 1871).
Lodger: Charles KILLENER 27, marr, Ag Lab, b Ifield, Sussex
Lodger: Mary Ann KILLENER 21, marr. b Rusper, Sussex
This make the
