Emma attended Lurham Green boarding school, which is near Londonfor a couple of years.

After her husbands death, aged only thirty three, there islittle further information about what happened to Emma.

Thomas was a schoolmaster at Shelton hall, near Stoke-on-Trent.The 1851 census show that there were eleven scholars aged between nine and sixteen, who were probably boarders, plus a housekeeper and a servant.