Henry and Robert Cove

[alansdad]

Hi, can anyone help?
My great times 3 grandfather, according to the 1851 census, was a farmer living ar Worthy Hill Farm, Charlton. He employed 5 workers and 2 servants, but later that year he passed away and his wife died 7 years later. My question is, what happened to his son Robert? In the 1851 census he and his wife are living at the farm with his parents, yet according to the 1861 census they are living with her parents in a house in Hasleton, Glos. Did he take on the farm after the death of his father and if so what went wrong, in order for him to be living as a labourer 10 years later? Robert was the eldest child.

[Kay99]

Henry's will in 1852 is on Ancestry if you have access  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01g91/

Henry mentions in his will his wife and sons, Henry, Thomas, William, Robert and David with daughter Ann,  so there would have been a number of people to share any inheritance. 

[alansdad]

Thanks Kay99, I will try and get a copy of the will.