Hi Billans,
There is quite a lot of info available on the net about these people. This is a quick summary of some of it.
I guess you have the marriage cert. for Maxted Ansell and Susannah Larkins.
Can't find Maxted in any census, but the ref. for his birth cert. is Sept. q. 1845, I of Thanet, 5/469. The index entry on FreeBMD says just Ma* Ansell, but you are able to look at the original and it definitely says Maxted.
Found a marriage in June 1844 between John Ansell and Selina Septima Maxted (Eastry 5/189). Would seem to be a pretty good guess for Maxted's parents? This Selina's death is registered in both March and Sept 1856 (Eastry 2a/397).
Susannah Larkins turns up in the 1861 census living with her father Francis, a gamekeeper, widowed in Nonington, plus her aunt, Ann, and her brother Francis.
By 1871 she and her brother are living with her grandmother - a stroke of luck, because it gives some new names!
Grandmother is Maria Holttum, a tailor employing three man. In 1861 this is spelt Halttum.
There is a marriage between Francis Larkins and Susannah Holtum in Jun q 1852, so it is a fair bet that these are Susanna's parents.
I'll send you a PM with more detail and some references.
I notice there are people in RootsChat tracing Maxteds in Kent - there could well be a connection with your lot!
Cheers,
Ros
