Children had remained with English housekeeper (10)
I believe the answer is:
chatelaine
'housekeeper' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'children had remained with english' is the wordplay.
'children' becomes 'ch' (genealogical abbreviation).
'had' becomes 'ate' (e.g. I had an ice cream).
'remained' becomes 'lain' (I've seen this before).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'ch'+'ate'+'lain'+'e'='CHATELAINE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chatelaine that I've seen before include "Mistress of the house" , "Woman running a household" , "French mistress" , "Castle keeper" , "formerly the mistress of a castle" .)