In the parish register, the names of the parents for the first 2 children are recorded as Richard and Harriet. For the remaining children the names are Richard and Hannah. As there is no further marriage for Richard, the assumption is that it is just the name that has changed. In the 1841 census Richard appears as a labourer, but by 1851 he is recorded as a "Greenwich Pensioner".

The children were all baptised in Chippenham


Anne         1829-1866    married Charles HAYWARD in 1853 in Chippenham
                          after Anne's death Charles married Maria HANCOCK
Jane         1831-1832    died aged 4 months
Richard      1833
Charlotte    1836-1837    died aged 11 months
Mary         1838         married James SIMPKINS in 1859 
Henry        1841-1841    died aged 4 months
Henry        1844-1923    married Ann

              1841 Census: HO107/1171: London Raod, Chippenham
              Richard JACQUES    50   Labourer
              Hannah JACQUES     35
              Richard JACQUES     8
              Mary JACQUES        3
              Henry JACQUES       3 weeks  

              1851 Census: HO107/1836/506/28: London Road, Chippenham
              Richard JACQUES        Head  63  Greenwich Pensioner
              Richard JACQUES Junior Son   17  Labourer
              Mary JACQUES           Dau   12  home
              Henry JACQUES          Son    6
              1851 in Calne
              Harriet JAKES, age 46, married, a monthly nurse
     

              1861 Census: RG9/1283: London Road, Chippenham
              Richard JACQUES        Mar   74  Greenwich Pensioner
              Henry JACQUES                16  Shoemaker - journeyman
              1861 : 22 Bennett Street, Walcot, Bath
              Harriet JACQUES, married, age 50, a Nurse  b Chippenham

              How did Richard JACQUES get from being a Labourer in 1841 
              to being a Greenwich pensioner in 1851 and 1861?