By 1871 Christiana and Mary Ann have left school and are living with their uncles; Christiana with Thomas Wellden and Mary Ann with Edwin Cornwell, their mother’s brother. George by now is fourteen and boarding at Saint Peter’s Grammar School in Broadstairs. He later becomes a tailor setting up business in Ramsgate. By 1911 he and his family are living in The Drive, Tonbridge in a house named Elora, the same name that his Uncle Thomas had called his own house in Queens Street, Deal. George by then was working as a Commercial Traveller.

In 1925 George’s wife, Amelia, dies and he moves up to Warwickshire where we find him and his son, another George and also a tailor, living in Sutton Coldfield. George remarries in 1930; he dies in 1942 aged eighty-five years.

Mary Ann stays in Deal marrying, in 1875, Frederick Cottew the brother of Amelia who had married her brother, George. Their father, George Cottew, was a well-known builder in the town at the time. Christiana marries Ernest Wench in 1877 who at the time of their marriage was an assistant ironmonger and living a few doors down at 187 Lower Street. They moved to Middlesex soon afterwards where Christiana dies in 1922.