Hannah King *married* John Ansley (no record) and had Fanny (my 2x g grandmother) in 1866.
In 1850 he'd had a son Henry with his *wife* Susan and then in 1854 he has Ellen also with Susan. In 1855 he's in prison in Bodmin and there is a note regarding letters to/from his wife Susan. His entry says he is from Lambeth, lately Launceston. Henry dies in 1854, Ellen survives to adulthood and moves all over the country it seems! She marries in 1872 in Leicestershire but I can't find her in the 1871 census - I can't find any of them in 1871, not Ellen, Fanny, Hannah or John. I can't find Henry in the 1851 census. Anne, Fanny and Ellen are together in 1881 in Norfolk. In 1891 Ellen is in Yorkshire having stopped off in Cambridge in 1886 long enough to be baptised. She does at least stay in Yorkshire for the rest of her life.
In 1841 there is a John Ansley living with a wife Mary in Brixton (he's a cabinet maker which is how John is described in every one of the scant records I have found pertaining to him). So possily he married only Mary and then just shacked up with his subsequent women - or maybe he didn't marry any of them!
This part of the tree is quite frustrating to say the least... DNA is not helping much either!
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