Thanks for checking Val. I think that's probably my Mary and she did die in 1870 (buried 11 May in Imber). Imber was a very small village and as you said, probably wouldn't have been able to support two shoemakers (I hadn't thought of that before). I've tried looking for him using initials only, in case he was in jail or an institution, and have also looked at all the James who were shoemakers/cordwainers born in Wiltshire, but haven't had luck there either. In 1871, he was in the workhouse in nearby Warminster.
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