Slightly off topic but may be of interest, and may explain why Lydia was with her brother in 1871.
Chelmsford Chronicle
21 Apr 1865
page 8, column 3
Saffron Walden
Petty Sessions, April 15
Wife Beating
Peter Barker, dealer, of Clavering, for beating Lydia Barker, his wife, and most shamefully abusing her, on the 31st March and the 2nd April, was fined 10s, expenses 10s, or to be committed for 21 days, and if he persisted in his violent conduct to be bound over to keep the peace. - Subsequently the wife came back with her brother, with whom she had taken refuge, and applied for protection, since she went in bodily fear, for her husband had threatened to kill her, and carried firearms continually. - The bench sent a constable after him, but he could not be found, and he was afterwards taken by warrant before W C Smith, Esq., and bound over in £20 and two sureties in £10 each to keep the peace.
