Hannah Willsher's disappearance

[ElizabethHerts]

In 1851 Hannah Willsher is in Headington, Oxfordshire:

1851 Census
WILLSHER, Hannah
HEADINGTON, Oxfordshire
HO107 piece 1727 folio 396 page 6
Widow
With infant son Joseph (Joseph Franklin Willsher) and servant.
Music teacher

She only married in 1849. Her maiden name was Hemmings and her family were Quakers.

I can't find her after that. In 1861 Joseph, her son, is at the Quaker school at Sibford Gower.
1861 Census
WILLISHER, Joseph F
BANBURY, Oxfordshire
RG09 piece 916 folio 42 page 28

I have checked later censuses and Hannah isn't with him and his family.

I thought I had Hannah remarrying, but I can't find it now.

[kiterunner]

Just so we know who we're looking for, on the 1851 census she is age 20 and born in Oxford St Martin.

[ElizabethHerts]

Thanks, Kate, I should have put her age. Her parents were Joseph Jeffcoat Hemmings and HANNAH (maiden name Knibbs).

[kiterunner]

I had no luck looking for her. If she got married and / or died in a different county there are quite a lot of possibles on the indexes but I couldn't find any Oxfordshire ones and couldn't find her on the censuses.

[ElizabethHerts]

Thanks for looking, Kate. This family are keeping me on my toes. :)

[Merry]

Does she or her son get a mention in her father's will?

[ElizabethHerts]

Merry, I don't have the will, unfortunately.

Her father, Joseph Jeffcoat Hemmings, died in 1868. These are Jeffcoat descendants, as you can see from the names. I am just trying to find the descendants now.

I have dug out the book by my contact and he has her marrying Fred Stokes in 1859, but no other details. I haven't found the marriage. Perhaps she emigrated.

[ElizabethHerts]

http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/cornmarket/east/04.html

This is her family!

[Nell]

Don't know if this will help, but my gt x 3 grandmother Elizabeth Willsher was also recorded as Wilshere and Wiltshire.

[ElizabethHerts]

Nell, thanks for that. On one of the censuses a branch of the family is written as "Wiltshire".

[tenterfieldjulie]

Lots of Wiltshire in NSW in early days. (The "t" is not pronounced) One family ended up here and the associated name that they gave sons was Forest. Apparently a "Forest Wiltshire" owned a lane in central Sydney. A big article on it in a Sydney newspaper about five years ago. Now it is very valuable and descendants are claiming it, 100 Years of rates to pay on it, but land in CBD is worth a fortune now.