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Married:
- Almost certainly not married. Daughter took mother's maiden name until her own marriage. Mother described as Agnes Francis, widow, in 1861 census.
The description "James FRANCIS, Solicitor" comes from daughter Agnes's marriage certificate, but no James FRANCIS exists on relevant Law Lists. Agnes's father is described on her birth certificate as a "solicitor's clerk".
This James FRANCIS has been chosen as the only person of the name working in the legal profession at the time and of an appropriate age - we have no other evidence that he was Agnes's father.
James was remarried and resident in Bushey before Agnes's pregnancy. Agnes was resident in Witney in 1851, but may have followed her sister (Mary Ann WOODCOCK) to Bristol shortly afterwards. It is possible that James would have been required to lodge in Bristol if his employer was involved in the Assizes [in 1855 there were no Spring Assizes, the Summer Assizes began on 2nd August]. A William FRANCIS (quite possibly James's son) was lodging in a hotel in Clifton in 1871 in his capacity as Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex, along with a number of others involved with the Assizes.
Alternatively, Agnes might have been employed in some capacity in Bushey, or she may have worked in James FRANCIS's household while he was still resident in London, and transferred with him to Bushey. This is not entirely unlikely: Charlotte HUNT, a dressmaker from Witney living in Regent's Park District in 1851 was in 1841 the domestic servant of a solicitor (Joseph BLUNT) in Upper Gower Street, St. Pancras.
- Agnes had two brothers who had settled in London by this time:
1. Richard, whose wife Emma was visiting Fanny WRIGHT (nee FLEXNEY) in Bournemouth in 1891 - perhaps coincidentally very near to the home of James's daughter, Sibella FRANCIS.
2. Frederick, who married in 1854, and whose daughter born in Islington in April 1855 was named Priscilla Agnes.
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