I'm hoping for some help in finding what I think are the 'wife' and children of Dick Percival, who was born 1854 in Derbyshire. His parents Charles & Susannah don't seem to have married and moved from one common lodging house to another, eventually settling in the Durham area. Dick is with them as follows:
1861 Huddersfield - Dick Perciful 6 born Derbyshire - RG9/3261/57/35
1871 Westoe - Dick Percival 16 born Staveley? Derbyshire - RG10/5034/4/2
Charles died in the Bishop Auckland workhouse in 1881 and Susannah died the following year in Stanley Street, Jarrow. The informant was George Percival, Dick's older brother. I can't trace Dick with certainly after 1871, although this is probably him:
1881 Stockton, Durham - RG11/4897/59/39
Richard Percival 23 Puddler born Bishop Auckland
Ann Percival Wife 21 Bishop Auckland
1901 Elvet, Durham - RG13/4679/76/8
Isabella Percival Boarder Married 31 b Bedlington, Northumberland
Richard Percival Boarder Married 51 Knife Grinder & Cutler born Bishop Auckland
Head of House is Mary Bowe, 85, Common Lodging House Keeper
I'm therefore assuming that Richard & Isabella were a couple, although its unlikely that they married. Although no children are with them, the Durham County Advertiser of 29 June 1900 carries a report of Isabella Percival "a woman on tramp" being prosecuted at the insistence of the NSPCC for cruelty to her two children. She was drunk and begging at West Stanley and also sent the children to beg, but when they didn't bring her enough money she thrashed one of them. She was sentenced to 3 months hard labour & the bench said they would try & find a suitable home for the boys, who were named as Richard & George, although no ages were given.
A Richard Percival aged 54 died in 1904 in the Lanchester RD, but what I'm still trying to find out is:
1) Where was Dick/Richard in 1891, and who with?
2) What was Isabella's maiden name?
3) When & where were Richard & George born?
4) What happened to them after June 1900?
5) When & where did Isabella die?
All help greatly appreciated!