Polly is married and moves to Lowestoft.

This early 20th century picture of fishing smacks from a quayside at Lowestoft, Suffolk, shows what a thriving industry the port had. Frank and Polly Stebbings ran a book and stationery shop in London Road Lowestoft until they retired to Stoke Newington, London. 
My ancestors and their immediate family followed their hearts when they left Norfolk and the increasingly remote rural backwater at Tunstall, where they were all born.
   Jane Betsy was "looking about" in her son Harry's words, for husbands for her daughters. I think of her, as she lives at Albion Terrace, Heigham Road, like Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, keen on getting her daughters settled.
   Her daughters had different ideas. They were out working and would make their own choices. Jane Betsy was probably expecting her daughters to find farmers who owned plenty of land to marry. It was a lifestyle she had grown up with and one which her youngest daughter, Rosa May, would have.
   Mary Ann, Polly, is the first of her surviving daughters to be married in October 1880. Polly marries Frank Stebbings. At the age of 24 she does not need her mother's permission. They move over the county border to Lowestoft, Suffolk, some time after the census in 1881. That census lists Polly as married but living with Jane Betsy (independent means) Emma Jane and Rosa May at Albion Terrace, Heigham Road, Norwich. Rosa May's surname is listed on the census as Stebbings. She appears on two census's that year. Rosa May Skinner 15, is with her cousin, Ednalenna Allard, 17, and her uncle Francis. Francis Allard is a widower. Jane Betsy's sister Charlotte died the previous summer at Heigham in Norwich. Francis is listed as having an "income from land." He, Ednalenna and Rosa May are living at a villa in Heigham according to the census. 
    I put the picture of fishing smacks at Lowestoft, above, because it was a thriving port at the time the Stebbings run their book shop and stationers there. Frank comes from a family of stationers, where Polly may have been working before she married him. He and Polly run a booksellers and stationary shop together in London Road Lowestoft. Jane Betsy is visiting them for the 1991 census, when Polly is listed as a stationer.
  Polly and Frank have two children, a son, Alfred Frank Bately and a daughter, Ella Pollard. The whole family have moved to London by the early 20th century.
    Polly and Frank's son favours the name Bately. He works, to begin with, as a mercantile clerk and lodges with his aunt Emma Jane, and uncle Joe in Aden Grove, Stoke Newington. Bately Stebbings is awarded medals for service in the First World War. He marries a Belgian girl, Celine Lemort. Bately is on the voting register. His address is Cambridge Street, Hyde Park in Joe's 1912 address book. He is one of three people listed who has a telephone. His number is for "Chapple & Stebbings" Padd. 6233. 
    Ella Stebbings becomes Mrs Ironside and lives in Stockwell with her husband Thomas, an agent for International Correspondence Schools.
   Bately and Ella's parents, Polly and Frank retire from Lowestoft to Aden Grove, Stoke Newington, London, probably choosing to live near her family.

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