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CENSUS INFORMATION
1841 Thomas (2) is living with parents and siblings on East st. in Leicester. 236

1851 Thomas (12) is living with father, stepmother and siblings in Rail Hut No. 8, Bassingthorpe, Lincolnshire. 2371841

1861 Thomas (22) and wife Eliza (25) are living in Basford, Nottinghamshire with son Charles (11 mo.). 300

1871 Thomas (32) and wife Eliza (35) are living at 15 Evelena Rd, Penge, Surrey, with sons Charles (10) and Thomas (6) and daughters Eliza (9), Emma (7), Sarah (4) and Harriett (11 mo.). 301

1881 Thomas (42) and wife Eliza (46) are living at 32 Wordsworth Rd, Penge, Surrey, with sons Thomas (16) and John Ellis (7) and daughters Emma (17), Sarah ( 14) and Harriett (10). Surname is spelled “Wooten.” 302

OTHER ADDRESSES
Pocklington Walk

NOTES
Possible death record
Deaths Sep 1890
Wootton Thomas 51 Croydon 2a 103

At least some of the daughters may be the “Misses Wootton” who were visiting Thorpe in 1889 WB letter.

RESEARCH
An 1891 census entry for Rosa Wootton, lists Harriett (20) and John (14) Wootton as “stepdaughter and stepson” respectively at the 32 Wordsworth Rd. address.

A possible marriage record for Thomas Wootton (sic) and Rosa Penseney is:
Marriages Mar 1886
Penseney Rosa Poplar 1c 842
Wootton Thomas Poplar 1c 842

NOTES
Possible death record:
Deaths Dec 1883
WOOTTON Eliza 48 Croydon 2a 120

Thomas and Eliza were married in the National Schoolroom, which had been licensed during the repair of the parish church. Witnesses to the wedding were William and Emma Wootton (most likely Thomas’ brother and sister). Eliza was illiterate (signed the register as Eliza Ellis, her X mark.

CENSUS INFORMATION
1881 Rosa (16) is living with mother Elizabeth Penseney (46) and siblings at 78 Wendon St., Bow, London. 303

1891 Rosa (26) is living at 32 Wordsworth Rd., Penge, London, with stepdaughter Harriett (20) and stepson John (17), and boarder William Kershaw. Rosa is listed as widow. 304

NOTES
Rosa’s family is known at this point from 1881 census and marriage of John Ellis (brother) to Rosa’s sister Eliza Jane.