Tilbury family, 1901

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Occupations

1851 & 1861
Joseph the father is a journeyman bricklayer

son Joseph in 1861 bricklayers labourer - wonder who he worked for!

Yes 1851 still Penn Buckinghamshire.  Address Penn Church.

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1871 same address Penn Church

Elizabeth 46 laundress widow - possible death for Joseph in 1865
Edward 20 journeyman bricklayer
George 18 gardener
Robert 13 errand boy

Elizabeth soldiers on

1881 Penn age 56 laundress with a grandson William Tilbury born Manchester age 6 and a nephew George Cruikshank born Chelsea age 12

1891 Penn age 71 laundress with same grandson William age 16

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Onto Sarah Wenborn hmmm well she could be this one in Romford Essex.

1871

Sarah Wenborn 41 married occupation looks like "a butlers wife"
Ellen 11
Sarah 9
Mildred 7
Elizabeth 5
Louisa 5
Fanny 3
William 1

Do you want the bits - piece 1644 folio 70 page 3

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1881 Romford

Sarah is a widow 50 occupation monkey nurse - or it could be monthly nurse
Lizzie 15
Fanny 13
William 11
Hariet 9
Emily 9

Lots of daughters and lots of twins if the ages are anything to go by.

Piece 1743 folio 81 page 34

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Frustratingly Sarah is never with a husband but I guess we could look for a butler on his own somewhere doing his job *

1861 St Pancras Middlesex

Sarah 31 butlers wife
Walter 2
Ellen 1

Piece 104 folio 35 page 66

* Aha there's a Thomas on his own who is a butler in Paddington Middlesex

1861 age 32 servant occupation butler born Tunbridge Kent 1829.  Must be him surely.

There's a possible marriage in Marylebone Jun 1858
Thomas Wenborn Sarah Singer or Sarah Beard.
Other groom John Seward.

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I would say this is his death in Romford Dec 1873 age 44 Thomas Wenborn.

So he should be somewhere being a butler on his own in 1871.  Just to wrap him up as it were 

Yes there he is under Thomas Mewborne in Romford Essex servant occ butler age 42.
Address Hare? Street something like Gidea Hall

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Thomas Wenborn 12 in 1841 Tombridge Kent is with

Thomas 45 ag lab
Philadelphia 45
John 20 ag lab
Emily 20
George 16
Thomas 12
Jane 10
Mary 7
James 3

In 1851 Thomas 21 is a footman in Rotherfield Sussex

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1881 Romford

Sarah is a widow 50 occupation monkey nurse - or it could be monthly nurse

I don't often LOL, (I h8 txtspk!) but I really did at that one.
How much would I prefer to tell my rellie that her g-g-grandmother Wenborn was a monkey nurse?!!

MT

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It was just too tempting to resist