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The youngest of the boys, Henry, joined the Marines and fought in the Crimean War which ended in 1856. He left the Marines with a pension and from that time on his occupation was given as ‘naval pensioner’. In 1864 he married Ellen Barker in Chelmsford and they apparently spent some time in the Midlands where they had their first two children. The first, Catherine, was born in Matlock Derbyshire in 1865 and the second, William, was born in Leicester in 1867. By 1871 however, the family had returned to Chelmsford and were living at 11 Railway Square where Henry and Ellen remained for the rest of their lives. In 1872 a second son, George, was born and he was followed in 1873 by Edgar. In 1881 another daughter, Ellen Emma, was born. Of the boys, William stayed in Chelmsford and became a postman. In 1890 he married a lady from Great Leighs in Essex who rejoiced in the wonderful name of Zillah Alefounder! Edgar started out as a telegraph boy in Chelmsford. He married Alma Pluck in 1898 by which time he had joined the Great Eastern Railway as a guard and they were living in Leytonstone, East London. Ellen Lord died in 1907 aged 72. Henry died in 1914 aged 86 and was given a military funeral in Chelmsford.
For some years Anne and Johns’ second son John and his wife Caroline lived with their children in Writtle near Chelmsford where he worked as a coachman. There they had three children; Alice born 1858, Joseph born 1861 and Sarah born 1863. At some time between 1863 and 1868 the family moved to Reading in Berkshire where John gained employment, still as a coachman, with Palmer & Bourne, a subsidiary company of Huntley & Palmers, which made their decorative biscuit tins. The couple had two more children following the move, Ernest born in 1868 and Emily born in 1870. The 1881 census shows their eldest son Joseph employed as a “Tin Box Finisher” so it seems probable that he too worked in the same factory as his father. In later years he became an ironmonger. Caroline and Alice both became dressmakers and Sarah was a milliner.
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