My Dad remembers a great-aunt of his named Clara. A daughter of my great-great grandfather Charles Poole, the 19th century census records suggest that she may have been named after her aunt Clara Poole, born 1834 in Leyton. To my surprise, given the static nature of Charles and his descendants, I discovered that Clara had qualified as a schoolteacher and each census from 1861 to 1891 found her in a different county. 1861 found her teaching in Bramley in Hampshire but 10 years later she was in South Wales, the "National School Mistress" in Llangynwyd, Glamorgan. Then she went south, teaching in Beaworthy, Devon, in 1881 before retiring to St Breock in Cornwall (1891), where she appears to have died in 1893.
Only three siblings appear in the 1841 census, although there may well have been older ones. The third, George, also seems to have wandered. I found him in Plymouth in 1871, on board the vessel "Unity" of Jersey, so I searched the Channel Islands census and found an English-born George Poole in Jersey of the right age in 1861 and then in 1881, when he had a Jersey-born wife Anna and two daughters, Louisa and Bella. After 1881 they appear to have disappeared off the face of the earth - quite possibly they emigrated.
