In the house were his 29-year-old wife Mary Anne and 4 children, who had all been born in Chichester (people therefore known as Cicestrians to this day). They were Fanny (?), John O. (5), Sarah Ann (4) and Mary Ann (2 months).
By 1891, both the elder Holts were 69. Ellen was with them aged fifty.
John continued to live at no 36 for the rest of his life and by 1901 he was a widower, his daughter Ellen still living with him. Ellen was a spinster and a schoolteacher, born in 1858.
John had died by 1911, but Ellen continued to live in the house. In 1921 she is recorded as a teacher of shorthand.
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