1860 & 1861

28th January 1860  John Legg Rolls marries Ellen Lane at St Andrews Church, Bloxworth Dorset

John and Ellen would appear to leave the village of Bloxworth soon after their marriage and perhaps go to Ellen`s mothers,  Silvey Lane in her home village of Milton Hampshire (between Christchurch and Lymington).  John and Ellen have their first child here, christened Silvey, as she is registered in Portsmouth..... By the time the 1861 census is taken the new family has arrived in Kent and are living in Bexley. 

John becomes a Police Constable - 269 R - not only had John and Ellen travelled a long way from Dorset but John had managed to leave his life as a Agricultural Labourer behind him,  a life he had known since childhood and he had not even had the privilege of being a scholar. 

Back in Dorset,  John `s two youngest sisters Emily now 17 is a glove knitter and Fanny 12 is a scholar, they are still living with their parents William now 60 and Leah at Morden Farm , Morden -  1.5 miles from Bloxworth....