1841 census says shoemaker, GRO death certificate and children’s birth certificates say cordwainer.

CENSUS INFORMATION
1841 Samuel (32) and Sarah (33) living on Far St. in Wymeswold with children Sarah (9), Mary (7), and Hannah (4).4

varies from one Wymeswold census to another.

CENSUS INFORMATION
1851 Sarah (44) is living in Wymeswold with children William (8), Emma (6), and Joseph (2). 6

1861 Sarah (54) is living on Clay St. in Wymeswold with children William (18) & Joseph (12) and granddaughter Eliza (1) (Hannah’s daughter) 7

1871 Sarah (64) is living on Clay St. in Wymeswold with son Joseph (22) 8

1881 Sarah (74) is living on Swifts Lane in Wymeswold with brother-in-law Thomas (70) (batchelor head of family), Eliza (21) (granddaughter) and Tom (15) (grandson)) 9

1891 Sarah (84) is living in Thorpe in the Glebe with Sarah Miller (60) (daughter), grandson George Miller (15) and granddaughter Eliza (31) (Hannah’s daughter). Arthur Freeman (23) is listed as a servant and farm hand. 10


NOTES
Birth location given (with variant spellings) as Knole, Warwickshire in census records. Maiden name Warner on Emma Wootton Travers and Joseph Warner Wootton’s birth certificate. (Listed as Walley on probable certificate for William). Confirmed by persistence in family names.

Sarah was apparently illiterate -- she left “her mark” on children’s birth certificates and Samuel’s death certificate.

RESEARCH
Parish records in Knole, Warwickshire, could be checked for date of baptism and parents’ names.