The 1881 census is searchable by occupation at Ancestry; is the 1891 census searchable that way anywhere else?
I just thought it might be useful ... in 1881, Welcombe shows as having 212 residents, only one of whom is a teacher (infants):
Mary G Burrow, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth, aged 22
(Ancestry incorrectly transcribed her sister Susan, 20, as a teacher but the image does not say that)
Mary Grace Burrow married in 1884. In 1891 she is residing with husband John Ward. She has no occupation, but they have a boarder:
Katharine Barron, 35, born in Scotland, "Schoolmistress Pub Elem'ty".
Ms. Barron was a schoolmistress in Buckland Brewer, Devon in 1881.
It's entirely possible that your Jane held the teacher position in Welcombe from the time of Ms. Burrow's marriage until Jane's death just before the 1891 census.
In 1881 there was also a schoolmaster in Welcombe -- and his occupation says, interestingly, "Bd. School":
Charles Hedden, 25, born in Welcombe, living with parents John and Susan.
In 1891, he is still residing with his mother, and is "Schoolmaster 'Board Pub El'y'." He is still "elementary school teacher" in 1911. Alice Letitia Fitchard is the "elementary school head teacher" that year, and there is also one other young female elementary school teacher.
So it does sound like your Jane worked for a "board" school and may have taken the same position in Welcombe, where there seems to have been one male teacher and one female teacher during the period in question.
