After her baptism in Latton on the 3rd March 1844 she lived in the village with her parents and married Robert Jordan in the church of St John the Baptist on the 4th August 1870. Her husband was Robert Jordan who was a lock keeper in Longcot which is a few miles north-east of Swindon and about 16 miles from Latton. The witnesses were Sarah's brother Jesse and Lucy Jordan who was one of Robert's four sisters.
They started their married life at The Locks, where Robert's family lived as Robert's father William was the lock keeper and carpenter and had been born in Latton. Robert and Sarah left Longcot during 1872 after the birth of Herbert to live in Shrivenham where Ruth was born, then moved again, this time to Kington in Wiltshire for the birth of William in 1875. Another child, Fanny, followed when they were living in Blunsdon, Wiltshire in 1877, and the next child, Sobina, was born in Lechlade, Gloucestershire in 1879, and then they moved to Little Faringdon in Oxfordshire.
Edith was born in 1880 and Jasper in 1883 in Little Faringdon, when Robert had changed his occupation to game keeper. There was at least one other move, this time to Childrey in Berkshire, as Robert was described as a Farm Bailiff in the 1891 census.
Rosetta was baptised on the 11th April 1847 by the vicar, Hyde Wyndham Beadon. Like many girls of this period she left home in, or before, her early teens to go into service. In her case she went to live in Cricklade Street, Cirencester, to work as a house servant for a corn dealer called Daniel Blackford and his wife. She appears to have been missed by the 1871 census enumerators but surfaces again in 1881, this time in London, after making sufficient money to run her own lodging house in Paddington at Conway House, 52 Moscow Road. Also present in Conway House were her sister Fanny Verena, (another boarding house keeper), and younger brother Charles, plus sister Sarah Ann's daughter Fanny, who was four years old.
In the autumn of 1884 Rosetta married William Lancaster in Kensington and they had two children, Elizabeth Charlotte in 1886 and Maud Lee one year later. They made Conway House the marital home with Rosetta continuing to run this as a boarding house, but William was working as a butler in 1891. Their lodgers were from the middle classes as they had a governess, an architect and 3 people living on their own means staying in the house in this census year.
Rosetta died on the 6th of January 1893 in Paddington but is commemorated on the gravestone of her parents in Latton churchyard.
Like his siblings Jesse was baptised in the local church at Latton by the vicar, Hyde W Beadon, on the 28th of March 1849. They lived in Church Lane at this time and then moved to the High Street in Latton by the time the 1861 census was taken. Jesse was still living with his parents in High Street in Latton in 1871 and working as an agricultural labourer. He died on the 27th March 1888 in Lambeth in London but was buried in Latton four days later by Hyde Beadon.
Charlotte was another of Robert's children to leave home in her early teens to go into service. She was living in a house next to the Rectory in Codford St Peter, Wiltshire, in 1871, and this would have involved quite a long journey for those days as it is about 45 miles south of Latton. Her duties were those of a house maid to the A'Court family who had six children, although neither of the parents was in the house on census night so the governess would have been in charge. In addition to the governess and Charlotte there was a cook, a parlour maid and two nurse maids.
Sometime after 1871 Charlotte made her way to London and probably purchased 10 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, just before the 1891 census was taken. Although she does not appear on the 1891 census I believe that she is the head of household at this address as her sister Fanny is shown as sister of the head of household. Shortly after this Fanny and Charlotte may have purchased number 8 next door to run the two premises as lodging houses. The London Post Office directories show Charlotte as a boarding house keeper at number 10.
In 1901 she is recorded as running number 10 as a boarding house and has six boarders. She was still running this establishment in 1914 and 1915, with her sister next door.
Henry left Latton after he was fifteen to move to Cumberland, and married Jane Ann Scott in late 1879 in Carlisle. It was here that he became a railway engine stoker, with the family living at 78 Charles Street, Botchergate, Carlisle. There were six children to the marriage, Daniel Scott in 1881, Annie Sabina in 1883, Emma in 1885 who died when just over one year of age, Charlotte Mary who was born in the spring of 1887 and died in the autumn of that year, Alice in 1890 and finally Fanny Verena who was born at the start of 1882. By this time Henry had been promoted to engine driver and they had moved to 9 Petteril Terrace, Carlisle. They were still in Carlisle ten years later, at 60 Bowman Street, Botchergate, although Henry was not recorded in the census, possibly he was working.
By the time she was thirteen she had left Latton to go into service and was employed as a general servant at Broad Leaze Farm, Shrivenham, Wiltshire, which is about 12 miles from Latton. The head of household was a 28 year old farmer called George Butler who employed 5 men, 2 boys and 4 women to help farm his 200 acres. In addition to George and Fanny the household consisted of two of George's sisters and two other servants. Some time during the next ten years she moved to London and was helping sister Rosetta to run Conway House in Moscow Road, Paddington as a boarding house.
Probably as a result of the marriage of Rosetta she went to live with another sister, Charlotte, and help run her boarding house at number 10 Warwick Gardens, Kensington. During the next ten years she and Charlotte must have made enough money to purchase the house next door and run that as a boarding house which was large enough to accommodate at least 5 boarders. Fanny and Charlotte were still running the pair of boarding houses in 1910.
