At the age of 16yrs Susan has her first child, Selina (it is likely she had been living away from home and employed as a servant from the age of 14yrs). The 1841 census shows her daughter Selina is living with Susan's mother and father who are now living in Totton, Southampton whilst Susan has gone live with her grandparents, William and Mary Noble and is working on their farm. The farm is in Plaitford (next to West Wellow) with 50 acres and her grandparents employs one other live in worker, William Yeates.

In her 20s and still living on her grandparents farm Susan has another 2 children, Matilda Russell Luffman (1856) and John Russell Luffman (1857-58). Their father very probably is John Russell (born abt.1828) who works on his father's farm only a mile away from where Susan is living on her grandparents farm. John never married.

The 1861 census shows Susan's first child Selina (born 1846) now aged 19yrs has had a boy called Charles Edmund Bartlett Luffman but the father is not named. Charles's middle names are Edmund Bartlett could this be the father's name? Selina almost certainly started work as a servant, like her sister Matilda who in the 1871 census is working as a servant to a family in Southampton. If Selina went slightly farther afield and worked as a servant in a large house in West Cowes, IOW she would have been working with another servant there seven years older called, Edmund Bartlett. Selina's Aunt Sarah (born 1854) actually met and married her husband who also lived in West Cowes did Sarah also work in the same house? Edmund Bartlett marries a Charlotte Paddock in 1866.

Charles remains living with Susan's parents and Selina at the age of 24 (1871 census) is working as a living in housekeeper for a Richard Nightingale (Land Surveyor), in Romsey and then Bransgrore, Christchurch (1881 census). She never married.

Susan marries William Yeates (the farm worker on her grandparent's farm) in 1863 and the 1871 census shows Susan is living together with daughter, Matilda and grandson Charles in Plaitford and William is employed as farm worker.

In 1563 Parliament passed an act which carried more weight. Records were to be kept in 'great decent books of parchment' and copies, or 'Bishop's Transcripts', of new entries were to be sent each month to the diocesan centre. Previous entries in paper registers were to be copied into the new books. Paper was at the time much cheaper than parchment (which is made from animal skins) and in many cases loose sheets of paper had been used (which got lost). Over time some paper registers had deteriorated to the point where the registers were unreadable, a fact not helped by the home made ink of the time.