My great-grandmother Sarah Ann (Sally) Hodgetts was the daughter of Robert & Mary Ann Hodgetts from Birmingham.  On the 1851 Census for St Bartholomew,  Robert & Mary are living at 17 Court, Smith Street.  Robert is a Brass Founder and Mary Ann is a Wood Screw Maker.  Their first two children John and Robert are 3 and 2 months respectively .  All say they were born in Birmingham. By 1861 the family have moved to St Martin, Birmingham and live at No 3 house, Court 10, Alleston Street.  They have two more children Sarah (my great grandmother) aged 5 and Joseph aged 4.  By this time Robert is a Gun Implement maker.  This time Mary Ann says she was born in London.   I think both Robert (the elder) and Mary Ann may have died before the 1871 census was taken as  I haven't been able to find them and I have found a death of a Robert Hodgetts of about the right age March qtr 1867 Birmingham.  In the 1871 census for Ladywood, Birmingham I have found John Hodgetts and his wife Elizabeth and brother Robert living at No 3, back of No16, Clement Street "The Ivy Green"  and Sarah Ann is a servant in the household of Mr T Faulks, architect,  living at St Frederick Villa, Ladywood.  By 1881 both Robert and Sarah Ann have moved to Newhall in Derbyshire.   Sarah Ann married Thomas Edwards on 14th February 1875 and Robert married Ellen Ensor on 25th December in the same year,  both marriages at St. John's, Newhall.  In 1881 Thomas and Sarah Ann are living at 239 Midway with two daughters Sarah A and Rosa (my grandmother).  Robert and Ellen live nearby with Sarah Ensor (Robert's step-daughter) and Mary Jane, Hannah and Robert Hodgetts his children with Sarah.  On the 1891 census Ellen is a widow,  living with her children Robert and Ellen and her father George Ensor of Melbourne.  Sarah Ann is still living at Midway (see Edwards family).

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