1871 census London Road North side St James Devizes RG 10/1915 page 8
William SIMS Head mar 29 Schoolmaster b Wiltshire Devizes
Margaret Annie SIMS wife mar 30 Teacher of Music b Hereford
Annie Florence Jane SIMS daur 6 scholar b Midx Kentish town
Amy Gertrude SIMS daur 2 b Wilts Devizes
Alma Charlesanne ROLDEN Boarder unm 15 scholar b Chilton
Annie PHILPOTT servant unm 13 domestic servant b Somerset St James Bristol
1891 census 32 Langdon Park Road Hornsey Mdx RG 12/1061/13 page 19
Margaret A SIMS Daur m 51 Teacher of Music b Hereford
ARCHIVE includes her notebook including recipes and family information; also various letters to her from American relations.
Programme shows she was appearing at a concert at the Association building Philadlephia on 4 Nov 1887
1889 travelled to America (letter to her from Mary Walker)
111She set to music Longfellow's translation of Coplas Manrique's 'o let the Soul thy slumbers break and sent it to Longfellow for his birthday receiving an autographed letter thanking her and saying he'd listened to the accompaniment, dated Cambridge April !st 1877