Thank you for your help with my query about Emily Allen. Her placement with this family is a logical one as her own father was noted as a blacksmith on Emily's baptism record. I believe her mother and father had both passed away by the time of the 1851 Census(her father James at Allaston in 1836 - Burial Record ID 24977; her mother Eliza possibly at Churchant (?) in 1848. Was the Halford family noted in the census as residing in Allaston also?