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Edith Dove (908)
1851 –27/04/1936
Edith Dove (908)
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Plot 908 Edith Dove (1852-1936)
Edith was born in 1851 in Norwich and baptised at St George’s, Tombland, 25 July that year.
Her parents were Harry and Sarah (née Chambers) Dove. Harry was a surgeon in general practice and the family of five girls and a boy lived in Tombland, an ancient street near the cathedral. A surgeon in Norwich must have been able to provide for a comfortable and stable family life, but when Edith was five her father died, aged only 42.
Her mother, left with a large family, moved across Norwich to St Giles’s Street, near the cathedral and set up as a governess. In the 1861 census she is shown as having three residential pupils and also employing an assistant mistress from Alsace to teach languages. She probably also took day pupils and was able to employ a housemaid and cook.
By 1871 Sarah had moved to The Chantry, a small street close to the fashionable Assembly House. Her unmarried daughters Edith and Mabel were living with her and she had three residential pupils and a servant.
By 1881 Sarah had retired from teaching. She and Edith were living with two servants in The Crescent, Norwich, a pleasant private road of red brick villas. They are both shown as having “no occupation”. Sarah died in January the next year. She left £846 in her will.
It has not been possible to trace Edith in the 1891 or 1901 censuses, but in view of her entry in the 1911 return it is possible that she is the Miss Dove listed by the Eastbourne Gazette as running a boarding house in the town in 1895.
Edith moved to Seaford, in Sussex and in the 1911 census described herself as an “apartment letter”. She had an elderly widow living with her as a boarder.
In the 1921 census Edith is recorded as living alone at Sarratt Hall Cottage, Sarratt, Herts, a four-roomed cottage next to the Hall.
Edith had moved to 39, Kitsbury Road by the time of her death on 27 April 1936. She was 84.
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Plot 908 Edith Dove (1852-1936)
Edith was born in 1851 in Norwich and baptised at St George’s, Tombland, 25 July that year.
Her parents were Harry and Sarah (née Chambers) Dove. Harry was a surgeon in general practice and the family of five girls and a boy lived in Tombland, an ancient street near the cathedral. A surgeon in Norwich must have been able to provide for a comfortable and stable family life, but when Edith was five her father died, aged only 42.
Her mother, left with a large family, moved across Norwich to St Giles’s Street, near the cathedral and set up as a governess. In the 1861 census she is shown as having three residential pupils and also employing an assistant mistress from Alsace to teach languages. She probably also took day pupils and was able to employ a housemaid and cook.
By 1871 Sarah had moved to The Chantry, a small street close to the fashionable Assembly House. Her unmarried daughters Edith and Mabel were living with her and she had three residential pupils and a servant.
By 1881 Sarah had retired from teaching. She and Edith were living with two servants in The Crescent, Norwich, a pleasant private road of red brick villas. They are both shown as having “no occupation”. Sarah died in January the next year. She left £846 in her will.
It has not been possible to trace Edith in the 1891 or 1901 censuses, but in view of her entry in the 1911 return it is possible that she is the Miss Dove listed by the Eastbourne Gazette as running a boarding house in the town in 1895.
Edith moved to Seaford, in Sussex and in the 1911 census described herself as an “apartment letter”. She had an elderly widow living with her as a boarder.
In the 1921 census Edith is recorded as living alone at Sarratt Hall Cottage, Sarratt, Herts, a four-roomed cottage next to the Hall.
Edith had moved to 39, Kitsbury Road by the time of her death on 27 April 1936. She was 84.
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