Actually looking there it seems there's another set: Arthur Horsley Brunel Stevens, 1902, "antenuptial" contract with Ellen Louise Gilbert Beachcroft Battern.
"Brunel Stevens" seems to be the more common way that Arthur spelt his name.
only trace of him I could find:
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27167/pages/1230Do you have the divorce records? It appears that she divorced him, I wonder what reasons she gave? (to get a divorce she'd
need to prove, I think, adultery
plus something else like abandonment, cruelty, bigamy, etc). It might say where William/Wilton was at the time.
http://www.1911census.co.uk/ - I see that Darcy (I think named as "Davey Wilton Battern") was back in the UK by 1911, have you found him on the incoming ship lists?
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home - also shows a William Foster Batten christened in 1847 in Surrey, parents David and Julia.
It seems he might have married in 1867 (freebmd), I believe to Annie Ella F. Silke
By 1871 there is this:
RG10/725 20/34
Annie Ella Batten, 21, "widow", b. Clifton near Bristol
Eliza Silke, 65, mother, b. Clonmel City Tipperary Ireland
Louisa Walker, 48, servant (domestic), b. Houghton Herefordshire
(in 1861 she's 16 so age does vary).
I am guessing here, but I think that probably Annie or one of her relatives caught up with him or Ellen otherwise found out about her.
http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/ and search for "Foster Batten", there's some records of him in 1884.
I think referring to this in the Old Bailey records, where his name has been misspelt as "Baeton" but is "Barton" on the original.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18840915-885-offence-1&div=t18840915-885#highlightIt is possible that the William F. Godden (32, b. Clerkenwell) and the Annie Godden (35, b. Bristol Clifton) on the 1881 census is the same Annie nee Silke (and possibly William F. Batten under yet another name, or it's been very badly mistranscribed).