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Sarah Ellis married Joseph Jowett on 8th September 1855 in Leeds. He was a widower (his first wife was Ann Ellis who died of consumption in 1853) and Sarah states on the marriage certificate that she was a spinster, but living with Joseph & Sarah on the 1861 census is Walter Ellis, age 16, stepson to Joseph and presumably Sarah's son.
I have been trying for a long time to establish a) whether Sarah & Ann were sisters, and/or b) whether Sarah was previously married.
Sarah's father was David Ellis, occupation given as Slubber, and a witness at the marriage was Eliza Ellis. On all later censuses Sarah gives her place of birth as Leeds, except on the 1891 where it definitely says 'Yorkshire' but doesn't look like Leeds! It is so faded I cannot read it! (RG12/3707/122/1)
Hopefully the 1851 census will find Sarah and Walter, and, with any luck, some other family members!
Many thanks.
Jill