Henry Wilkinson was born in Layham, Suffolk 1870. He seems to have moved around the country quite a bit and married Lucy Ashmore in Rotherham, Yorks in 1891. In the 1891 census he and Lucy are in Harrison Street, Kimberworth, Yorks together with a clutch of children:
William Howard Litemore 11
Arthur Litemore 9
Florence May Litemore 3
all born Staffs.
These are clearly not children of Henry and Lucy, although they are named as sons and daughters on the census return. I can't find their births registered either, though there is a Lily Lucy Luxton born June Q 1895 in West Ham! (no William Howard of either surname) Who are they, that they should be living with this newly wed couple?
Henry married for a second time, this time to Jane Guest in 1896 in Rotherham. But when did first wife Lucy die? If I search for deaths with that name between 1891 (H & L's marriage) and 1896 ( H & J's marriage I can only find a Lucy Wilkinson who died in 1895 in Rotherham aged 38. Our Lucy would have been 25 in that year unless she was fibbing on the 1891 census. Also I believe that Henry and Lucy had one or two children together.
By 1901 Henry and Jane had moved to West Drayton, Middx., where they spent the rest of their lives, along with their 14 children. (The last ones were twins - poor mother!
