Stapley marriage

[annaS]

There is a death for Elizabeth Bishop in September 1853 in the Uckfield district which is the district for Mayfield.  This is probably her!  Oh dear speculating again.   Anna

[avm228]

I have inherited letters and diaries from young Victorian children in my family sent on short visits to their grandparents - they didn't call it a sleepover but they seem to have been simply enjoying a change of scene much as children do today, even if (as with the children in my family) Granny's house is only a little way from home.

It's very dangerous to assume from a single census return that a child was brought up by e.g. a grandparent, though I am sure you are not assuming that.  Extended family would have been important, as now, in sharing the burdens and pleasures of child rearing. I don't see any reason why children would not have stayed with grandparents for very short or more extended periods of time for all sorts of reasons. One often sees this in the censuses when a newborn is in the parents' house, or there has been a recent bereavement.  Obviously sickness (short-term or long-term), impending childbirth and space considerations will also have been factors in some cases.

[sillgen]

John Stapley married Lucy Taylor at St John sub Castro Lewes 19 Nov 1827.  Both of this parish.

Edit - bit after the birth though.

[omega 1]

Hello Anna

From the Sussex Marriage Index

Lewes St John sub Castro

John Stapley & Lucy Tayler

19 Nov 1827

Both of the Parish by Banns

Kind regards

omega

[annaS]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.  That is super from all of you.  Yes AVM I know that it is dangerous to assume, and I was not assuming, just thinking out loud!

So Lucy Tayler it is.  Anna