I (David Foster) visited the town of Saffron Walden in 2001.  We found the street and building where William Parkin, Ellen's father, had his wheelwright shop.  Our research also discovered that at age 17, (1871 census) when she would have been completing a sample such as this, Ellen was one of three housemaids at the House of Edmund B Gibson , a banker, who also employed,  a nurse, 13 men and 3 boys to run his 400 acre estate.   She married Josiah Chapman in 1880 in the same village.  He was an "agricultural worker" two years her junior and might very well have been employed on the same estate.  Esther Chapman, the couple’s first child, was born in 1881 but Ellen probably died in childbirth or shortly after because the record shows that Josiah married a second time to  Isabella Clara  Naylor and had a son, Hedley, who Esther often spoke of fondly.  Hedley Frank Foster was named after her half brother. The 1881 census lists Josiah as an "agricultural labourer" which means he was one of thousands who worked the farms owned by the upper class.  By 1901, he had become a "Carter" in the "Cooperative Store" which can be interpreted as a person in charge of a horse and wagon or simply a person who moves things about.