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Yes that's right only Florence and Stephen were my Great Grandmother's siblings. I know a half sibling went to Canada. Beatrice lost her nose due to an explosion I assumed she was a canary girl but further up the thread you mentioned Clara going into the asylum following bombing raids? Harriet is fascinating have since found out she was actually born Harriet Ensor and her Father was a convict transported to Australia long story that I am still trying to get to the bottom of.

Ah ok thank you so he probably returned to England? I found a death for a Thomas Ensor ,clerk in 1885 in Rangoon aged 52 on FindMyPast and I presumed this could be my one. Harriet married twice in Sheffield on both marriage certificates she names her Father as Thomas Wilson, Solicitors Clerk.
  When he was convicted in 1847 he was described as a clerk from the East India company. His brother George Lewis Ensor was a clerk in a  tea company in Hackney.
Do you know why a convict would go to Rangoon at that time?

I know this is an old thread but Harriet Wilson was my 2xGreat Grandmother and George Thomas Riley was her first husband, he was an attendent at the aslyum. He died in Wadsley and is buried at Wadsley churchyard in Feb 1885 along with their baby, Harriet 4 days after . I visited the grave  a few years ago.
  Harriet went on to marry John Rose a widowed spring knife cutler from Wadsley. Now Harriet and John's daughter, Beatrice Rose born 1890 had been been facially disfigured with severe bombs I believed because she worked in an ammunition factory but you mentioned a bombing raid was there one in the Wadsley/Sheffield area in World war one?

Some names might be helpful. Do you have a baptism record for the one born in Rangoon? If so is the father's occupation shown?

Thank you for the reply. My 3xGreat Grandfather who was transported was Thomas Ensor born 1829 in London. He was a clerk both before and after he gained his ticket of leave.
  The child born in Rangoon along with the other two siblings were all baptised in Stoke Newington in 1858 on the same day.
    My Great Great Grandmother was born Harriet Ensor in 1856/7 . On the 1871 and 1891 census she gives her birthplace as Rangoon but on the 1881. 1901 and 1911 Australia. I can not find a birth record for her. On all census records she has her mothers surname, Wilson.
      Her brother has Rangoon on all his census records and again he uses the surname Wilson (Richard Lewis Wilson). All three children were baptised as Ensor.