Henry Farmer

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Piano & Violin Teacher.

• Occupation: Professor of Music, at the time of the census in March 1851. ⁴⁹⁴ He was then living at 5 High Street, Nottingham with his second wife, their daughter, a daughter by his first wife and two servants.

• Residence: Flora Cottage, Birch Lane, Lenton, Notts, by the time of the census in April 1861. ⁴⁹⁵ He was with his second wife, two daughters and a servant and continued to be described as a professor of music. It appears that the family moved to Lenton between 1851 and 1854 as they were at 5 High Street at the time of the 1851 census and their daughter Emily was born at Lenton in 1854.

• Residence: Flora Cottage, Birch Lane, Lenton, Notts, st the time of the census in April 1881. ⁴⁹⁶ He was by then a widower, living with his daughters Kate, unmarried and Emily Lambert, descrbed as a widow , as well as three servants. He continues to occopied as a Professor of Music.

• Occupation: music seller, at the time of the census inApril 1891. ⁴⁹⁷ He was then living at Flora Cottage, Sherwin Road, Lenton with two daughters, Kate and Emily, a visitor, Miss Bosworth, born Ratcliffe on Soar, a domestic nurse and three other domestic servants.

Henry married Jane Walker Tompson, daughter of James Tompson and Sarah Neville, on 7 Jul 1842 in Nottingham (St Marys).²⁹ (Jane Walker Tompson was born circa 1820 outside Notts ^155,156 and was buried on 3 Apr 1846 in Nottingham (St Peters) ¹⁵⁷.)

Henry next married Ann Bardsley, daughter of Edwin Bardsley and Mary Bradley, on 22 Jun 1848 in Lenton, Notts.²⁹ (Ann Bardsley was born circa 1824 in Lenton, Notts ^171,172 and was baptised on 18 Apr 1824 in Lenton, Notts ¹⁷³.)