« Reply #4 on: Thursday 29 March 18 03:37 BST (UK) »
Yes, I think you are probably right. How sad though, for my Great x 2 Grandmother at that time, to be left to bring up a large family on her own - albeit with the help of her own widowed Mother it seems. The baptism must have been tinged with great sadness.
The child I mentioned was called Charles Edward Senior. Sadly, he went on to die young - at only 16 years of age.
He actually died in a hotel in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I don't know the story behind that one. His burial entry records that he was a 'Gentleman'. His Father Edward was also sometimes recorded as a Gentleman or Gentleman Farmer. At the end of the latter's life he had taken on an inn and was the vice president of a licenced victuallers society.
After Edward's death, his wife Mary's fortunes (my Great x 2 Grandmother) seem to have gone down with each successive census. She went from having servants to being one (a family 'nurse' at quite an old age). She never remarried.
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner