Here is what I have been able to piece together about James Wilton Ashe’s life after the 1861 Census:

In 1862 James Ashe and Obadiah Ashe (who I think was his brother … I’m working on that) formed a partnership with some other investors to develop two mines, one in the Parish of Marown and one on Greeba Mountain in the Parish of German. It was not a successful venture, and they would be sued by their co-investors in 1866 and pursued by the government for back rent.

In 1871 James, Sarah and their son William were in Penninghame, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland. They were staying with Obadiah Ashe, who in this census was listed as “Stanley O Ashe.”
Stanley O Ashe 48 (Parser & Hontary Of Mines)
Emily Ashe 34
Albert Ashe 12
James Ashe 42 (Mining Captain)
Sarah M H Ashe 40
William H Ashe 10

Obadiah died in October 1871.

Meanwhile, Sarah Adah, John James Walter, and Elizabeth Grace Ashe were living in Liverpool with a servant. They were not easy to find, since their name had been transcribed as “Soke” and in the index they were included in their next door neighbor’s household. I only found them by going through the census for West Derby page by page looking for 2 Beech Mount, the address Sarah Adah gave when she married William Maitland later that year.
Here’s how they’re listed (not including the neighbors):

Adah Ashe, Dau, 18, ---, Isle of Man, Castletown
James H Ashe, Son, 14, Scholar, Isle of Man, Ramsey
Elizabeth G Ashe, Dau, 12, Scholar, Isle of Man, Ramsey
Mary Morgan, Serv, 28, G. Servant, Ireland

Back to James …
In 1875 he visited the United States, arriving in New York on September 1st aboard the Cunard ship Russia.

On 2 Jan 1878 he married Ellen Jane Thomas in London. He was 48, she was 20. Ellen was born in Sept 1857 in Lambeth, Surrey, and her parents were Thomas Lorkin Thomas and Ellen Jane Stowell.

James & Ellen would have seven children together:
Wilton Lorkin (1878 – 1947)
Ellen Ethel (1879 – 1935)
Herbert Stanley (1881 – 1961)
Percival L (1883 – 1971)
Victor Edgar (1885 – 1952)
Ruby Oakley (1889 – 1960)
Randolph Cuthbert (1892 – 1952)

In 1881 they were living in London at 9 Somerset St., Islington.

James W. Ashe, 50, Mining Engineer, Tower Hill, Cornwall
Ellen J. Ashe, 23, -- , Lambeth, Surrey
William L. Ashe, 2, -- , Plymouth
Ellen E. Ashe, 1, -- , London, Middlesex

0n 6 Jan 1886, James, Ellen, Wilton, Ellen, Herbert, Percival, and Victor arrived in New York aboard the SS Abyssinia. Ruby and Randolph would be born in San Bernardino, California. At that time, there were a number of large mining operations in San Bernardino County, including lead mines. I assume that he had a job waiting for him there. My gg-grandmother Sarah Adah joined him in southern California 12 years later, after her second husband Thomas Stocker (my gg-grandfather) passed away in 1887.

I believe James died in San Bernardino on 23 Apr 1894. I haven’t confirmed that the James Ashe who died on that day was him, all I have is an index entry, but a lot of circumstantial evidence points that way.

I found Ellen in an 1897 Los Angeles city directory, listed as a widow and working as a janitress at a school. She remarried that year, to John Wilson Clark, and they would live in the Los Angeles area for the rest of their lives, as would most of her children. Ellen died in 1929.

I have more information about Ellen’s life, and about her children … exact dates, occupations, spouses, descendants, for anyone who’s interested. I’ve also mapped out Sarah Adah Ashe’s life pretty thoroughly. As for Sarah Hatton’s other children, I’ve found little that hasn’t already been mentioned in this thread. John James Walter Ashe might have emigrated with Sarah Adah … there were a Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ashe on the boat with her when she arrived in New York in 1888. The age is a little off … the passenger claimed to be 35 and John James Walter would have been 33 … but I haven’t been able to figure out who else he might have been, or what became of him.

Next time, Sarah Adah Ashe.