Was Elizabeth Spence (the future Mrs Boynton) mistranscribed as Spencer? Or maybe even the enumerator got it wrong. If she was born about 1842, though, she should be 9 or 10, not 14. Could she be shaving something off her age later on, and could this be the real story, i.e., born about 1837, possibly before civil registration?
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=10894867
There is this one:
Births Mar 1838
SPENCE Elizabeth York 23 610
Alternatively, could she be tacking on a few years to make herself older for work? If (big if...) this were the right Elizabeth, then she should turn up on the 1841, 3 years old, but I can't find her.
Tell me where I'm going wrong!
Got to go to bed. Back in a good few hours.