Thank you so much for this, I already had a couple of the newspaper items (relating to the bankruptcy etc. James Rodgers was the second husband of Sarah's mother Elizabeth (therefore his step father-in-law), but I hadn't seen the death's notice. That's interesting because my gg grandmother (the daughter of Sarah and sister of Robert Arthur) made a handwritten log of the family birth and death dates, and had put Robert Arthur's death as 21st October 1879 - but the newspaper announcement says " on the 14th inst. meaning 14th Nov. A minor detail though, and only proven if I order the death certificate.
Poor Sarah had only lost another child of only 1 year old the previous October, and another of the same age the year before that.
The notice referring to 12 Carr's Lane, and your suggestion they could have been suppliers to William's business are probably valid - Sarah is shown in Kelly's Directory 1880-84 as "Haberdasher" at 19 Gt Hampton Row, so she continued to run her own business.
She was, in fact a fascinating and probably formidable woman, who went on to set up a 'Fancy Goods Repositories" small 'empire' business with her children in Cardiff, Brighton and Weston-Super-Mare up until the early 1920s, and she lived to be 87.
I wonder if the remaining children were ever baptised though!
Thanks again for your help, it's much appreciated. x
