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Thanks everyone.  I think my suspicions re 1879 are well and truly confirmed.  There's just the 1884 issue to sort:  did John marry his sister-in-law?

The GRO Index records a Tamar Haigh's death in 1879 (Wem/Whitchurch).  I'm sure this ought to read Tamar (or Tamer) Hough.  It's likely she was buried at Chetwynd, Whixall or Edstaston.  Does the burial register for one of these parishes register her as Hough (wife of John)?

A follow-up to this is that John Hough remarried in 1884 (Wem Registry Office or Registrar Attended).  He married Jane Seywell.  I suspect that he was marrying his dead wife's sister.  Tamar Saywell was born in 1843 (Paddalgreen, Shropshire) and Jane in the same place 1846. 

Can anyone locate the 1884 marriage (perhaps in a Methodist chapel) to confirm that her father was John Saywell?

My thanks,

BB

Thank you both for these details.  Architect would be a step up as his father (if this is 'my' Joseph) was a Shropshire railwayman (Ernest Hough).  His birth was registered April-May-June 1909.

BB

Emelton

Thanks for your speedy response, and with just the information I was hoping for.  Little Lavinia was, it would appear, my great (x2) great-aunt!  Seven years later this distinctive first name was then given to a great great-aunt of mine, presumably with this unfortunate child in mind.

BB

We look to have the same wider family.  This Jane looks to be the one born in 1862 with mmn being Wood.  I think I've teased out before that the Goldenhill Jane, who married this Thomas Kent might have been a Wood.  It all suggests that the age (7) of Elizabeth in the 1861Census was misrecorded, mistranscribed or whatever.  It should have been 10 or 11.

We then have the 1851 June Qty Vol 17 p228 birth registration of Elizabeth Kent, mmn Wood.

Thomas Kent married Jane Wood at St Mark's Shelton in 1848 (just spotted it on staffordshirebmd.org.uk).  Things are falling into place - unless someone comes up with contradictory information!

Many thanks for this lead.