Good Questions everyone...
My assumption / proof arises from this data:
***The grandson of Samuel James Deacon Jr has two DNA links to Richard Kearley, Hannah Kearley's grandfather (His 3rd great grandfather.)
***England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 for Hannah Kearley married George Hawkins in Kensington.
Name:
George Hawkins
Registration Year: 1870
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Kensington
***1871 England Census: George Hawkins age 34 born in Enfield Middlesex HEAD and Hannah Hawkins age 22 born in Kensington Middlesex wife. MOTHER IN LAW Hannah "Hearley" corrected by another ancestry member to be Kearley and looking at the actual document it is clearly Kearley (no pun intended!) age 62 and born in Durweston Dorset. George is a police sergeant. They live in Kensington, London.
This also fits because her dad died in 1868, leaving her mom a widow.
Hannah does indeed have a checkered past if one accepts the data and connections found! She has a son with George Hawkins in April of 1871. (10 months after their marriage in June of 1870)
***In 1881 Census
George Hawkins HEAD wife Hannah son George and Mother of wife, Hannah Kearley.
#11 Gipsey Road Dairy, middlesex.
George Hawkins is now a DAIRYMAN & their son George age 9
That is the SAME ADDRESS as Hannah's mother's subsequent PROBATE. Money is left to Hannah's brother, Joseph.
(AN ASIDE QUESTION: Why does George Hawkins change a great job and location to move to a lower income areas and a different job?)
Hannah's mother also named Hannah age 72 dies in May 5 1882. Her mother is a puzzle as there is a probate and 1,215 pounds left to her son, Joesph who is Hannah's brother. The address for her is Gipsey-road Dairy Lower Norwood in the county of Surrey. (so that fits) Her son has a large family and lives at 9 Warwich-terrace Warwick-road Kensington in the country of Middlesex. "Coachman the Son one of the Residuary Legatees." (RESIDUARY LEGATEE. The person or persons named in a will to receive any residue left in an estate after the bequests of specific items are made.)
***1891 England Census
George Hawkins
Residence. Weybridge, Surrey, England
Head and Widower son George
George Hawkins: Head lives with son George and is a WIDOWER. "Living on own means"...son age 19 a "general labourer".
Hannah's not mentioned
LOCATION WEYBRIDGE SURREY...
George Hawkins probably lied, saying that he was a widower as there are no death records for Hannah who of course later shows up on Samuel James Deacon Jr's birth certificate as Formerly Hawkins)
So sometime after 1881 census and her mother's death in 1882, Hannah has moved on. She meets Samuel James Deacon and they say that they are married.
1891 Census
1891 Address 296 High Street, Southampton, Hampshire, England
employment Shoemaker (Journeyman) as stated on birth certificate of his son Samuel James born 11 May 1891. (To be a journeyman was to be employed, not independent.)
According to John (here on Rootschat) a Hannah Deacon was arrested and the timeline and location fit as Samuel James was born in three months prior. "A small snippet from the Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton)dated 8th August 1891:
Hannah Deacon, a married women, of respectable appearance, carrying a small infant(probably Samuel James junior) in her arms, was summoned for being drunk and disorderly, in the Victoria Road, Woolston, on Monday, and was fined 2s6d and 7s costs-A week allowed for payment."
Frank Harold John Deacon is born Feb 25 1893. Samuel James Deacon Sr is long gone sometime after June 1892 (to have conceived the boy, Frank - unless FRANK is Mr Bennet's son! I do not yet have any DNA connections to Frank's children and grandchildren, possibly because they have not yet taken a test. Frank died in 1960 in Southampton.
*****1901 Census the brothers are living with their mom and Amos Bennet and their lives go on quite clearly after that as I can easily trace their WWI records and have photos etc.
I conclude that Hannah did not legally divorce Geroge Hawkins nor did she LEGALLY marry Samuel James Deacon or his predecessor Mr Bennett.
-----------My original question remains... to what family was Samuel James Deacon born in Watton Norfolk? He does seem to have travelled about.--------------
As an aside, Samuel James Deacon Jr found work in a Marine shop in Southampton that also supplied out of the Isle of Wight I surmise by addresses as he did move to IOW. Both boys served in WWI (Samuel James had a slight build and though he did receive medals for "Special instances of gallant conduct" spent much time in military convalescence, returning with injuries to his shoulder and arm. His brother Frank on the other hand, much larger in build and stronger served as a SAPPER and was more of a hell raiser). Samuel James worked in the IOW marine shop from 1911 and with a good wife and young family. In 1931, at the age of 38, Samuel hung himself.