Have a closer look at the 1871 census and on the same page, I think you will see his parents Richard and Margaret plus younger brothers William Frederick and George. Richard is a cotton overlooker.
On the 1861 the family are in Newchurch, Lancs and in 1851, John age 1 and parents Richard and Margaret are with her father who is PROCTOR.**
** What doesn't fit is that a Richard TATTERSALL occ Mule Spinner married spinster Margaret RATCLIFFE of Tunstead Mill 11 August 1849 in Newchurch in Rossendale.
then the GRO has a birth registered Dec quarter of 1849 at Haslingden volume 21 page 441 of a John TATTERSALL mother's maiden name RATCLIFFE. So don't know about the surname PROCTOR in 1851,....maybe I have the wrong family.
Sue