| known that Enumerators often wrote 'scholar' down for young children, whether they were currently attending a school or not.
In the same census, William Wesson and family are shown still at No, 171, but joined by a son John from his first marriage who was born in Wandsworth.
Shortly after this, between 1852 and 1853, William Wesson, then aged 62, set up on his own as a hoop merchant, taking over Thomas Allen Shuter and Co's premises at No. 82.
It is likely Wesson then brought William, his other son by his previous marriage, into the business at this time, as he is recorded there in the next census. | |
