Census lookup for fowkes

[basford08]

Hello there!
This is my first post, hope it makes sense
I am trying to trace the parents and wife of William Fowkes/Foulkes, who is in the 1881 census living on Prince Street in Ilkeston - he is shown as a widower and living with his family, eldest son is Joseph born in Ilkeston c1859. It gives William's birthplace as Heanor around 1839. Can anyone find this family before 1881, ideally firstly with his wife (who dies sometime after 1876) and then further back with his parents?
Any help received gratefully!

[Tati]

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1871
RG10/3481 69 14 & 15
Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Wheatleys Row
Willm Foukes, head, 35, Coal Miner, b. Ilkeston
Elizth, wife, 35, b. do.
Mary, dau, 14, Work? Factory, b. do.
Jos, son, 12, Coal Miner, b. do.
Martha, dau, 10, scholar, b. do.
Willm, son, 8, scholar, b. do.
Elizh, dau, 3, scholar, b. do.
Ann, dau, 1, b. do.

 

[Tati]

1861
RG9/2436 27 15
Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Hamlet of Cotmanhay
Mount Pleasant
William Fowkes, head, 22, Coal Miner, b. Smalley
Elizabeth, wife, 23, Household Work, b. Cotmanhay
Mary, dau, 4, scholar, b. do.
Joseph, son, 2, b. do.
Martha, dau, 4 mo, b. do.

[basford08]

thank you so much (this website is brill!)
So thats 3 possible places of birth! But now i think I have the wife, guessing it's Elizabeth Limb going by bmd.

[Tati]

1851  
HO107/2144 359 2
Smalley, Derbyshire
John Foulks, head, 41, Farm Labourer, b. Horsley?
Martha, wife, 37, b. Kent 'Chattun'
John, son, 15, b. Heanor
William, son, 13, Farm Labourer son, b. Heanor
Mary Ann, dau, 9, b. Smalley
Joseph, son, 7, b. do.
Rebecca, dau, 4, b. do.
James, son, 2, b. do.

1861 confirms Martha's birth place as Chatham and there are 3 more children: Harriet age 9 born Smalley; Robert age 6 and Elizabeth age 3 born Heanor

[Tati]

and 1841
HO107/189 13 18 3
Morley, Derbyshire
Township of Smalley
John Foulks, 30, Ag lab
Martha, 25, not born in county
John, 5
William, 3

[Tati]

 

1851
HO107/2126 141 12
Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Cotmanhay
Joseph Limb, head, 38, Coal Miner
Mary, wife, 38
Elizabeth, dau, 12
George, son, 11, Coal Miner
John, son, 7
Eliza, dau, 4
Mary, dau, 1(?)

All born Ilkeston

[basford08]

thank you so much!

[Tati]

There's a possible marriage for John Foulks and Martha on the IGI at www.familysearch.org