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- It is not clear if all the details here are right or not, and so the story may change.
The only available marriage details for Arthur, are the ones here, and so the implication is that they were living together for more than 25 years before deciding to get married.
Tracking back to the 1871 Census, we find Arthur with his wife Sarah Ann, identified as husband and wife, with Sarah's birth location given as Lowestoft. This coupled with the name of Sarah's father suggests that we do have the right Sarah Ann KNIGHTS. Note the witness at the wedding could be, though clearly not for certain, Sarah's mother.
However Arthur states he is a widower at his marriage in 1880, and also in the 1861 Census. In addition the baptism of his children gives the mother as "Sarah", though of course this is a common name.
It is not clear where Sarah Anne was at the 1861 Census.
I have not found any marriage for Arthur around 1851-3 with a Sarah, but there is a Sarah Desborough buried in Camberwell in Oct 1857. The FindAGrave transcript says she was aged 34 (ie born around 1823).
My current suspicion is that this "other" Sarah is the children's mother, and that at some point after 1861, Sarah Anne Knights came to live with them, perhaps as some form of home help. But I cannot locate anything that provides more information about this (new) Sarah.
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