Help unblocking dead end with Annie Santer (b. 1863)

[Rachael89]

Possible marriage
Dec 1894 East Preston 2b 756
Boorman, Annie Maria
Couchman, George

They are in Godstone, Surrey, in 1901
Annie Couchman, 37, born Cranbrook, Kent
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9X6-FK4

1911
Annie M Couchman, 47, born Cranbrook, Kent
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW8N-2Z6

1921 Annie's transcribed age is 58 years 3 months

Some births
COUCHMAN, ANNIE       
Mother's Maiden Surname: SAUNTER 
GRO Reference: 1899  D Quarter in GODSTONE  Volume 02A  Page 197

COUCHMAN, SUSANNA       
Mother's Maiden Surname: SAUNTER 
GRO Reference: 1905  J Quarter in GODSTONE  Volume 02A  Page 224

Also, since @stallc found them in the 1891 census living together as a married couple, I'm assuming that means they were posing as married before they actually got married? That's interesting and another wrinkle in the story - especially as I still don't think we've discovered what happened to the first husband...

[rosie99]

While I'm here I thought it might be worth asking about Annie's brother. In the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses, a man named 'Charles Santer' born in 1845 in Cranbrook appears. He's listed in the census as the son of Charles and Susanna (need Kadwell) Santer, which would make him the brother of Annie. I can't find his birth in the GRO.

Baptism for Charles with parents Charles & Susanna was 3rd May 1845 at Sissinghurst / Cranbrook.

[Rachael89]

While I'm here I thought it might be worth asking about Annie's brother. In the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses, a man named 'Charles Santer' born in 1845 in Cranbrook appears. He's listed in the census as the son of Charles and Susanna (need Kadwell) Santer, which would make him the brother of Annie. I can't find his birth in the GRO.

Baptism for Charles with parents Charles & Susanna was 3rd May 1845 at Sissinghurst / Cranbrook.

Thank you! That's helpful in proving that he was their child, as I was starting to wonder if it was some kind of informal adoption situation.

[rosie99]

It was not unusual for births not to be registered that early in the registration process. 

[softly softly]

Just posting this as there are NO Charles Santer births between 1838-42.

Deaths Dec 1882 

Santer    Charles    42    Ticehurst    2b   63

Newspaper article 1882.

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NOT YOUR MAN__APPEARS IN 1871/ 1881 Census

[rosie99]

I think he may be in Tonbridge in 1871 and 1881 bn Biddenden (occ Licensed Victualler  )

[Rachael89]

I think he may be in Tonbridge in 1871 and 1881 bn Biddenden (occ Licensed Victualler  )

That's not him alas - he's still living with his parents in the 1871 census and his profession then is given as 'hotel waiter (unemployed)'.

[jonwarrn]

Could he have gone to Australia?
There is a Charles Santer arriving in Australia in 1874, age 26 (Queensland)
A Charles Santer died in Victoria in January 1916. Age 71. No details of parents indexed on the Victoria BDM site.

[jonwarrn]

Left a will, short and sweet
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6QG3-782

ADDED
Lots of images of probate stuff here
https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/55CCAEE3-F225-11E9-AE98-FB8697D4CB54?image=1