Emma Moore | Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Biography:
Emma Moore
1846 –1881

Unmarked grave Emma Moore (née Gudgin)

Emma was born in Pitstone in 1846, the daughter of agricultural labourer Robert Gudgin and his wife Ann. In 1851 they were living in Frithsden.

In 1861 the family lived in Bedford’s Cottages on Berkhamsted Common. Like her mother and older sister, Emma was a straw plaiter, a common occupation for the women and children in labouring families, supplying plait to the Luton and Dunstable hat industry.

She married labourer Reuben Moore in Berkhamsted in 1874 and they were to have three children: Annie (1874), William George (1877) and Ellen (1880).

Emma died in  November 1881.

Reuben married again. He is buried in Plot 902 and various members of his family are in Plot 537.

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Unmarked grave Emma Moore (née Gudgin)

Emma was born in Pitstone in 1846, the daughter of agricultural labourer Robert Gudgin and his wife Ann. In 1851 they were living in Frithsden.

In 1861 the family lived in Bedford’s Cottages on Berkhamsted Common. Like her mother and older sister, Emma was a straw plaiter, a common occupation for the women and children in labouring families, supplying plait to the Luton and Dunstable hat industry.

She married labourer Reuben Moore in Berkhamsted in 1874 and they were to have three children: Annie (1874), William George (1877) and Ellen (1880).

Emma died in  November 1881.

Reuben married again. He is buried in Plot 902 and various members of his family are in Plot 537.

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