Biography:
Annie Elizabeth Gurney
1875 –06/12/1929
Annie Elizabeth Gurney
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Plot 986 Anne (Annie) Elizabeth Gurney (1875-1929)
Annie was born in 1875 in Nash, Buckinghamshire, a village halfway between Buckingham and Bletchley, to Hannah (née Brookes) and William Gurney. Her father was a farm labourer, her mother a lace maker. She was their second child and had an older sister and younger brother and sister.
In April 1881 the family were living in Nash “at the crossroads to Thornborough.”
The family moved to London Road, Loughton, Newport Pagnall by 1891 and Annie was working as a general domestic servant but living at home.
By 1901 Annie was employed as a cook at St John’s in Chesham Road, a boarding house for Berkhamsted School for Boys. The domestic staff, beside Annie, were a matron, a nurse and nurse maid, a parlour maid (her younger sister Ester) and two housemaids. Annie was cooking for them, Charles H Green, the Master and his family, a school master and forty two students. Presumably at least one kitchen maid came in by the day!
Ester also came to Berkhamsted is recorded on the 1911 census, whereas Annie cannot be traced on that record. There was no cook listed and she must have been away for some reason.
In June 1921 Annie was the cook at School House, Berkhamsted School for Girls. Also in the household was the Head Master, Charles Henry Green; his wife, two daughters and two sons; a school master; matron; five “general domestic servants” and a nurse. No students were in residence at the time of the census.
Annie died 6 December 1929 aged 55 at Berkhamsted School for Girls.
Her sister Ester died in 1944 and is buried here with her.
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Plot 986 Anne (Annie) Elizabeth Gurney (1875-1929)
Annie was born in 1875 in Nash, Buckinghamshire, a village halfway between Buckingham and Bletchley, to Hannah (née Brookes) and William Gurney. Her father was a farm labourer, her mother a lace maker. She was their second child and had an older sister and younger brother and sister.
In April 1881 the family were living in Nash “at the crossroads to Thornborough.”
The family moved to London Road, Loughton, Newport Pagnall by 1891 and Annie was working as a general domestic servant but living at home.
By 1901 Annie was employed as a cook at St John’s in Chesham Road, a boarding house for Berkhamsted School for Boys. The domestic staff, beside Annie, were a matron, a nurse and nurse maid, a parlour maid (her younger sister Ester) and two housemaids. Annie was cooking for them, Charles H Green, the Master and his family, a school master and forty two students. Presumably at least one kitchen maid came in by the day!
Ester also came to Berkhamsted is recorded on the 1911 census, whereas Annie cannot be traced on that record. There was no cook listed and she must have been away for some reason.
In June 1921 Annie was the cook at School House, Berkhamsted School for Girls. Also in the household was the Head Master, Charles Henry Green; his wife, two daughters and two sons; a school master; matron; five “general domestic servants” and a nurse. No students were in residence at the time of the census.
Annie died 6 December 1929 aged 55 at Berkhamsted School for Girls.
Her sister Ester died in 1944 and is buried here with her.
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