Hi
Just thought I would include an extract from my research. You probably know this allready.
Robert and Eliza Smith(D1)
Robert did not follow the family trade but instead became a schoolteacher and is described as such in the 1832 Whites trade directory for Willoughby. Robert married Eliza Smith in Gedling on the 15th November 1837. Their first child Mary was born in Carlton and baptised two days after their marriage in Gedling. I assume that Robert had moved to Carlton to a teaching post.
Their second daughter Elizabeth was baptised on the 19th April 1839 in Willoughby. It is not clear if the family had left Gedling at this time, for Robert does not appear in the 1841 census for Willoughby, but both his wife Eliza and daughter do, living with his widowed mother Rebecca. Their first son Robert Smith Screaton was baptised in Willoughby on 2nd January 1842. His other children, Rebecca, John, Ann, Emma Louise and Ellen Elizabeth were all born at Wigston Magna, Leicestershire.He took up the post of Master of the National School there before 1846. In 1877 he was described in the trade directories as a land surveyor, rent collector and registrar of births, deaths and marriages living in Bell St. Wigston. Robert died in 1886.