Jen-B ....I am exploring it more fully as it seems to be at the back of my mind somewhere that the younger children were left with their dad as their mum left them for another man.....it is also stated in the 1911 census that she was living at Greasley Top as a Houskeeper aged 48 with her 18 year old son William and a Boarder, Gervase Jowson, farm hand, aged 64........The older children would have left by then as my grandmother, Lucy, was the eldest and was born 1888 and married to my granddad in 1908......thanks for your help, libralady