Biography:
Ann Groves
1841 –02/11/1928
Ann Groves
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Plot x198a Ann Groves (née Potton) (1841-1928)
Ann was born in Northchurch in 1841, the child of Ann and John Potten. Her father was a tailor and the family of four daughters and a son lived in the High Street.
In 1861 Ann and her elder and younger sisters were straw plaiters, producing plait for the Luton and Bedford hat industries.
Ann married widower James Groves in Berkhamsted 1 April 1865.
The couple were to have eight children, all of whom survived into adulthood: Annie Sophia (1865), Cornelius (1868), Eliza (1870), Charles (1873), Rose (1874), Lydia Louisa (1877), Amy (1880) and Frank (1882).
James, who had been a groom was, by 1871, a general labourer and later became a painter. The family lived at 18, Victoria Road and continued to do so until at least 1903 when James died aged 74.
Ann had moved to 14, Victoria Road by 1911 and was still there in 1921, living with unmarried daughter Annie Sophia who was employed at Rose & Sons Brush Works in St Albans where she had been employed since the age of 15.
Ann died 2 November 1928 aged 87 and was buried here with James.
Their daughter Annie Sophia died in 1947 and is buried in plot 1050.
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Plot x198a Ann Groves (née Potton) (1841-1928)
Ann was born in Northchurch in 1841, the child of Ann and John Potten. Her father was a tailor and the family of four daughters and a son lived in the High Street.
In 1861 Ann and her elder and younger sisters were straw plaiters, producing plait for the Luton and Bedford hat industries.
Ann married widower James Groves in Berkhamsted 1 April 1865.
The couple were to have eight children, all of whom survived into adulthood: Annie Sophia (1865), Cornelius (1868), Eliza (1870), Charles (1873), Rose (1874), Lydia Louisa (1877), Amy (1880) and Frank (1882).
James, who had been a groom was, by 1871, a general labourer and later became a painter. The family lived at 18, Victoria Road and continued to do so until at least 1903 when James died aged 74.
Ann had moved to 14, Victoria Road by 1911 and was still there in 1921, living with unmarried daughter Annie Sophia who was employed at Rose & Sons Brush Works in St Albans where she had been employed since the age of 15.
Ann died 2 November 1928 aged 87 and was buried here with James.
Their daughter Annie Sophia died in 1947 and is buried in plot 1050.
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