Caroline James

1861 England Census, Steyning, Sussex: John Tribe, head, aged 51, solicitor, born West Tarring; Eliza, wife, aged 35, born London, MIddlesex; Caroline James sister, aged 36, born London, Middlesex; two servants.

1871 England Census, Weybridge, Surrey: Living with her brother William Boyce James, attorney & solicitor, his wife Fanny, and their mother Hester.

1881 England Census: Living with her brother William Boyce James, retired solicitor, and his wife Fanny in Weybridge, Surrey. Unmarried.

Caroline James must have had dealings with the children of her niece Sibilla Pettit, as one of them carved a comment about her into the wood next to a window, "Stephen Pettit claims that there is evidence of the family's stay at 2 The Square [Buxton] because scratched beside a sitting room window are the words "Miss James is a fool!" The Miss James in question was the austere aunt of his mother from Winchmore Hill, Middlesex" (Philip Lane, A History of Holm Leigh Preparatory School, Buxton, Country Books, 2011, Little Longstone, Derbyshire, pg. 8).

Probate: The will of Caroline James late of the Ferns 4 Bleisho road Lavender Hill in the County of Surrey Spinster who died 28 November 1886 at the Ferns was proved at the Principal Registry by Charles Edmond Vickers [her nephew, the son of her sister Sibilla Vickers] of the Chestnuts, Westbourne road Sheffield in the County of York solicitor the sole Executor. Effects: 199 pounds 19s. 5d.