Biography:
Ann Maria Davis
1855 –06/03/1938
Ann Maria Davis
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Plot 946 Ann Maria Davis (née London) (1855-1938)
Ann was born in 1855 in Northchurch and was baptised there 14 October that year. Her parents were William, a labourer, and Emma (née Johnson). She was the elder of their two daughters and had two older brothers. In 1861 the family were living in Northchurch High Street. By 1871 the family were in Gossoms End. The two older boys had left home, but there were four daughters and three sons still at home. Emma and her next sister were straw plaiters and their mother worked as a laundress.
Ann married George William Davis in early 1874 and by 1881 were living at 1 Thompson Row, Holiday Street, Berkhamsted. Eventually they were to have 14 children (5 of whom had died before 1911).
George and Ann lived at this address until at least 1901 George’s main occupation was as a Brewers Labourer, and the children were engaged in various occupations from bricklayer, butcher and baker to brush-drawer and forewoman in the mantle factory
By 1911 George was occupied as a ‘Carter at the gas factory’ and with Ann and five of the children, was living at 52 Charles Street.
Ann died in 1938 aged 82. George survived her until 1947 when he died aged 93 and was buried with here her .
Their son Frank Charles (1884-1937) and daughter Harriet Maria (1878-1959) lie in this cemetery in unmarked graves. Son William George (1881-1934) is buried in plot 948.
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Plot 946 Ann Maria Davis (née London) (1855-1938)
Ann was born in 1855 in Northchurch and was baptised there 14 October that year. Her parents were William, a labourer, and Emma (née Johnson). She was the elder of their two daughters and had two older brothers. In 1861 the family were living in Northchurch High Street. By 1871 the family were in Gossoms End. The two older boys had left home, but there were four daughters and three sons still at home. Emma and her next sister were straw plaiters and their mother worked as a laundress.
Ann married George William Davis in early 1874 and by 1881 were living at 1 Thompson Row, Holiday Street, Berkhamsted. Eventually they were to have 14 children (5 of whom had died before 1911).
George and Ann lived at this address until at least 1901 George’s main occupation was as a Brewers Labourer, and the children were engaged in various occupations from bricklayer, butcher and baker to brush-drawer and forewoman in the mantle factory
By 1911 George was occupied as a ‘Carter at the gas factory’ and with Ann and five of the children, was living at 52 Charles Street.
Ann died in 1938 aged 82. George survived her until 1947 when he died aged 93 and was buried with here her .
Their son Frank Charles (1884-1937) and daughter Harriet Maria (1878-1959) lie in this cemetery in unmarked graves. Son William George (1881-1934) is buried in plot 948.
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Bulbourne Mantle Factory
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