Every family has mysteries, niggling little questions that cannot be answered. Often the questions aren't particularly interesting in themselves, but it is annoying that they can't be solved.
The family had disintegrated by 1857, all but one of the children living in various households in Cradley. Levi and Sarah are not there. What had happened?
Edwin Shaw worked in the blacksmithing trade near Birmingham all his life, except in the 1861 census he is working in Minster KEN. How did that come about?