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Found this, for info:

Another woman deportee was Cardiff-born Sarah 'Sally' Penn. She had come to South Africa as a child and while still in her mid-teens married an Englishman, William Penn.39 They had three children, of whom one died in infancy. Around 1920 they were in Cape Town and, by Sally's account, William was 'carrying on' with a 'Mrs. Van Vrede. According to Sally, she took at a job as a waitress at the Central Hotel in the Royal Navy base port of Simonstown and gave her two small daughters Florence and Maude into the care of a Mrs Horner in Cape Town. Horner was then reported to the authorities for neglecting the children, and on the order of the chief magistrate of Cape Town they were placed in the All Saints Home. Sally showed up in Durban in 1922, where she later got two suspended sentences for housebreaking before going to jail for the same offence in 1924. In 1925 she was in Pietermaritzburg, where she appears to have been involved in prostitution and further petty thefts. By this time William was in jail, and in 1926 Malan decided on his deportation. However, William demanded that his 'family' be deported with him. Despite the understandable objections of the sister superior at All Saints, who felt that the girls were doing well in the home, and despite the advice of his officials against William's proposal, Malan agreed. One can only speculate that his actions were based on a patriarchal Calvinist faith in the sanctity of the family. A search was instituted for Sally, who was found in the Transvaal town of Middelburg. She was taken to Pretoria to accompany William and the girls on the ship. But there she told her landlady that she did not want to go to Britain and disappeared. Malan continued to insist that the daughters should join their father but, probably fortunately for them, this did not happen. Around the time of her disappearance Sally apparently had been taken up by an Italian pimp called Leni. In 1928 a Cape Town detective reported that the pair 'keep company with other local crooks and loafers. They move around from town to town and when not in gaol are begging in the street. She is now a very low type of woman'.40 After a further conviction, she was deported on the Edinburgh Castle in 1930.

https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902014000100008

Bev

You may have this already but the funeral notice gives details of his children, a couple of cousins and also mentions that he was of 4 Canning Road.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79941855?searchTerm=rowland%20wood
Bev

I have a rather unusual situation in my tree, in Western Australia.  My g-g-aunt married (for the first time) in 1926 at the advanced age of 52.  She lived for 13 more years, and ten years after her death her  husband married her lifetime companion and rumoured half-sister, he being 82 years old and she 84.
Needless to say, neither marriage produced offspring.
Bev

The line through 'name of father' could suggest that he was illegitimate.  The only record that fits from Lancs OPC is

Baptism: 14 Mar 1852 St Peter, Bolton, Lancashire
Thomas Wilkinson - Son of Ann Wilkinson, Spinster
    Abode: Great Bolton
    Baptised By: R. Harries Jones Curate

I'm not an expert on the geography of the region but I think Bolton would be about 10 miles from Barton.

Bev