The reason I'm interested in Jessie is that one of her descendants is a DNA match to me, with shared matches on my Sewell line, so I was wondering whether Jessie could be related to my 4xg-grandmother Mary Wilkinson, born 1802 at Hodsock, near Blyth, Nottinghamshire, who married John Sewell.
This is Mary's brother Benjamin in 1841 in Sheffield:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...92499168/facts
Benjamin Wilkinson 30 Labourer N
Elizabeth Do 35 Y
William Do 5 N
Mary Ellis 10 N
Joseph Ellis 10 N
Thomas Do 5 N.
Evidently the children's ages have been rounded down to multiples of 5 like the adults'.
Benjamin had married widow Elizabeth Ellis 30 Sep 1845 at Blyth, Nottinghamshire. I don't know her maiden name, but her previous husband was a Thomas Ellis.
This is Elizabeth in 1851, and I had assumed that Benjamin died between 1841 and 1851, but maybe they just separated (or of course it could be that they separated and then Benjamin died before 1851!)
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...88513695/facts
Osberton, Nottinghamshire
Joseph Marsh Head Mar 44 Cow Man York Beighton
Elizabeth Do Wife Do 43 Do Stone
Mary Do Daur U 16 House Servant Notts Worksop
John Do Son U 10 Scholar Do Do
Thomas Ellis Son in Law U 18 Ag Lab Notts Blyth
William Wilkinson Do U 15 Groom Do Do
John Black Lodger U 29 Ag Lab Do Ordsall.
So Benjamin probably wasn't married to Jessie's mother - assuming that Jessie's father is my Benjamin. Just need to find Jessie on some previous censuses, with or without Benjamin.