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My goodness you are all so quick...I know very little about this lot compared to the rest of my family who were Kitchinghams which makes life much easier as you can imagine. 

Here are the snippets I know, I haven't ferreted around in the censuses much yet...

According to some scribblings by my great granny George and Sarah had 5 children, George born Sept 29 1867, Sarah born May 29 1870, James born Sept 7th 1872, Caroline born Dec 23rd 1874 and Emily Elizabeth born Sept 11th 1877, which kind of fits what you've found so far.

George was dead by 1896 and Sarah remarried to John Levings Johnson at St Barts still in the City.  George's daughter Caroline, married my great grandfather Harry Cocksedge in 1896 Holy Trinity, Newington in London.  Also present at the marriage were Henry and Emily Purser.
Caroline's address is 21 Herring Street.

The only tantalising clue I have to James is his appearance on the marriage certificate where he listed as a Beadle which meant many things of course, although I seem to recall that Granny spoke of him as a Beadle at a hospital so I wonder if he was at Bridewell which was so close to Cripplegate..which is rather bizarre as at the same time my husband's ancestors were working as psychiatrists at Bethlem, all nuts together!

Thanks for your help.

Rachel

My goodness all these names are familiar to me, I am a Kitchingham from Rainham in Kent, the Chambers and the Hales are very old Rainham families as of course are the Kitchinghams.

My dear old father died in February aged 90, last of the old Rainham Kitchinghams.
I have heard my mother and father speak of all these families.

Good luck with your search.

Rachel

Thank you so much for all this very useful information.  I am sure this must be her as in all the searches I've done anywhere she is the only one ever appears with that first name and the year of birth fits with her having my Great Grandfather when she was 26. I now wonder if the subsequent name change is related to them perhaps having had my Great Grandfather out of wedlock. The sleuthing has to continue to work out when and how they met.
Thank you once again for all the help.

Rachel

Please could someone look her up in the 1841 census for me?  She's my great great grandmother but she's a bit of a mystery, she was married to my great great grandfather by 1861 (when they had my great granddad) but I can't find their marriage record anywhere and then to make matters worse they changed their name from Whiteman to Hodson and moved to Birmingham.  Felicia Rowson originates from Shropshire and was born about 1835.  I am a bit of a beginner so any help much appreciated.  Just because it appears as if they were married on my great grandfathers birth certificate does it mean they really were?

Thanks.

Rachel