I was just browsing around in the Free BMD database today, looking at all the Backwell's when I happened upon Matthew and Phoebe's marriage in Liverpool, dated March 1866.

In the 1881 Census, they're living at 36 Hicks Road, Litherland, Lancashire. Matthew is 80 and Phoebe is 43(!)

There is a Phoebe Gathercole in the IGI b. April 1, 1838, daughter of John Gathercole and Ann. Lakenheath, Suffolk, and that's where the 1881 Census said she was born.

Barbara