William and Frances's eldest daughter was ELIZABETH, born in Brighton on the 18th November 1815. She remained single all her life and is described as a domestic servant in censuses. She appears to have been very interested in family matters, and invariably represnted the family at weddings, where she would often be recorded as a witness.

She was also present at the departing of family, and was there at the death of her mother on the 8th December 1848.

Elizabeth was not particularly healthy herself, and spent some time the Sussex Hospital being treated for Bronchitis. While in Hospital she wrote her will naming her brothers and sister Fanny as beneficiaries, and dated it 20th May 1867. She obvoiusly had some affinitiy with her brother William and followed him to Burnley, where she spent the last few years of her life. She stayed with William's own son Frank and his wife in a house in Daneshouse Road Burnley. She was buried in Burnley Cemetery on 13th December 1875.

WILLIAM was born in Brighton in 1818, and was christened at St Nicholas Church on 12th April 1818. Like his brother Stephen he was brought into the family bootmaking trade and worked in the shop at No. 4 Market Street. On the 9th JUly 1838, he married Caroline Bristow, a farmer's daughter at St Nicholas Church, and they rented a house at 25 Gardener Street, now part of Brighton's "Lanes". Caroline was already pregnant and on the 1st September she gave birth to their daughter ELLEN. Both mother and daughter were sickly, and early in 1840 Ellen died. Caroline herself died from Consumption at her parents home in Washington Sussex on the 30th November 1840. She is buried in Washington Churchyard.

There now came a turning point in William's life. Some time around 1843, he was involved in an argument and fight with another man, during which William stabbed him with his shoemaker's knife. (to see the knife, click HERE) The man was not fatally injured, but William wisely decided that he had better make the most of his liberty and get as far away from Sussex as possible. He first travelled to Liverpool, (though why is not known) and found employment with Stephen Anderson, a shoemaker on Copperas Hill, Liverpool. Here, William then in his mid-twenties, met Anderson's daughter, MARY ANN.  Then in her early twenties, she had already been married to a man named Jones, who had been transported to Australia for some unknown misdemeanour. At the time, an absence of 7 years counted as a break to the marriage and on the 25th July 1847 they married at Liverpool Parish Church. Their first child HENRY was baptised at Liverpool on the 19th November 1848. After this, the family made another move to BURNLEY and started the Burnley branch from which I am descended.