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Well, a few at least. How usual is it for someone to give two sons (born 7 years apart) the same name? How usual is it to find an elderly gentleman living with a younger female servant and her 6 (illegitimate?) kids? How high up, status wise, would be a lady's maid to a proper titled Victorian Lady....

Thanks - hopefully it's still the same guy anyway and tea merchants were heavily into shipping I believe. It's been really difficult, Burton is such a common name, and there's another 3 or 4 herbert burton's in London of a similar age. Having said that, tracing his wife has been even more difficult ...

Lol different census, but handwriting just as bad I take it you have an Ancestry account? If so, could you tell me what you think the occupation of herbert burton is on this image? m I have his occupation from a daughter's birth certificate as sea merchant's clerk in 1909, just checking I have found...

That's Ok then

Any good at reading handwriting?

Bah, 2 years late with the reply! Ah well

Couldn't find anything in the 1851 Census, but in the 1861 census I found the family living at 28 Admiral Terrace*, in the Westminster parish of St John the Evangelist, going by the surame Bun, not Bunn. They were lodging with a family called "Cough" (Head of family Fredric Cough). Emma Bun, Age 31,...