There was a five year rounding on adult ages in that census, so they were both born about and there are suggestions in other family trees that James was born in I had some contact recently from Marie Russell, who is descended from this branch of the Backler families.
She sent me a photo of Annie Elizabeth Backler seated born 12th March , her great great grandmother, along with another unidentified younger female who is standing next to her, who is facially clearly a relative. This is the first time that anyone connected with the Backlers in Haverhill has contacted me and I would be delighted if other descendants did so.
It would be a bonus if they were able to provide more information on any Backler Connections, not just my family. James Backler senior and Dorothy had a son James Backler junior , a master bricklayer, who married Mary Ann Basham in and it is the descendants of the younger James that feature in this blog page.
Mary Ann had been married previously and living with the family in the census were step children with the surname Brooks: Mary Ann, aged 11 born , Eliza, aged 9 born , Thomas, aged 7 born and John, aged 6 born By the time of the census only Mary Ann Brooks, aged 21 and John Brooks, aged 16 were still at home. I have not explored the Brooks connection any further because they are not Backler Connections.
James and Mary Ann had five further children living at home in the census: Susannah Backler , aged 10 born — , Harry Frank Backler , aged 5 born , the aforementioned Annie E Backler, aged 4 born , Catherine Jane Backler , aged 2 born and Albert Jabez Backler , aged 7 months born These five were still living at home in the census, although Harry Frank was just Frank and Catherine was now spelt with a K. I have mostly researched their daughters, because Marie told me that someone in the family was a servant of the Romanoffs, the Russian royal family, and she returned to Russia between and after a visit home, where family anecdotes suggest she died during the revolution.
