Sad tale of the Spring children from 1911 census

Louisa Elizabeth Fage was born in 1874, and was my grandmother Elizabeth Sarah Fage's great-aunt, daughter of my great-grandfather Jem Fage.  I worked out from the 1901 census and FreeBMD records that she married Frederick Thomas Spring in 1891. By the 1901 census, the couple would have been married for ten years and have five children at home on census night (Albert, 9; William, 8; Frederick, 4; Ellen 2 and 1 month old Emily).

In the 1911 census, Louisa notes that they have by then been married for 20 years and have had 15 children, only 9 of whom are still living. These include the five children alive at the time of the 1901 census, all of whom are still living with their parents at London Road, Sandy, and four younger children: Lilian Mary, 9; Stanley, 5; Sidney Charles, 4 and Ena, 3. 

FreeBMD searches suggest that some of their younger children died at or soon after birth. The births and deaths tally makes sobering reading (months are those of birth or death registration) - in some cases the children's name differ slightly from those in the census:

Louisa died in 1926, aged 52.