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Eleanor Foskett
1845 –1903
Eleanor Foskett
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Unmarked grave Eleanor Foskett (née Kempster) (1845-1903)
Eleanor was born in 1845 in Two Waters, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, the daughter of William Kempster, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann. She was baptised 20 April that year in Rickmansworth which is where her father’s family came from. He had been living in Hemel Hempstead by at least 1843.
In the 1851 census they are recorded living at 10, Weymouth Street in Apsley. Eleanor had an elder and younger sister and a younger brother, James. By 1861 they had moved to Frogmore Crescent (now Frogmore Road), close to the canal and William had become a canal boatman. Eleanor and her elder sister Elizabeth were working as envelope folders, presumably at John Dickinson’s paper company in Apsley. The younger children at home were all girls – it seems that little James had died.
In 1871 the Kempster family, except Eleanor, were still living in Frogmore Crescent and with them was 3 year-old Ellen Kempster, described as “granddaughter”.
Eleanor married Charles Foskett a widower, in 1888 in Berkhamsted. His wife Emily, with whom he had four sons and three daughters, had died in 1881.
The 1891 census shows Charles, a labourer, and Eleanor, living at Gravel Path with her step-children Arthur and Louisa.
In 1901 the couple were living a 5, Canal Side with Eleanor F Hayes, aged 4, described as “daughter” and born in Berkhamsted. No details of the child have been discovered.
Eleanor died June 1903 aged 62 in the Union Workhouse, presumably in the infirmary, the only place for anyone unable to afford medical bills.
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Unmarked grave Eleanor Foskett (née Kempster) (1845-1903)
Eleanor was born in 1845 in Two Waters, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, the daughter of William Kempster, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann. She was baptised 20 April that year in Rickmansworth which is where her father’s family came from. He had been living in Hemel Hempstead by at least 1843.
In the 1851 census they are recorded living at 10, Weymouth Street in Apsley. Eleanor had an elder and younger sister and a younger brother, James. By 1861 they had moved to Frogmore Crescent (now Frogmore Road), close to the canal and William had become a canal boatman. Eleanor and her elder sister Elizabeth were working as envelope folders, presumably at John Dickinson’s paper company in Apsley. The younger children at home were all girls – it seems that little James had died.
In 1871 the Kempster family, except Eleanor, were still living in Frogmore Crescent and with them was 3 year-old Ellen Kempster, described as “granddaughter”.
Eleanor married Charles Foskett a widower, in 1888 in Berkhamsted. His wife Emily, with whom he had four sons and three daughters, had died in 1881.
The 1891 census shows Charles, a labourer, and Eleanor, living at Gravel Path with her step-children Arthur and Louisa.
In 1901 the couple were living a 5, Canal Side with Eleanor F Hayes, aged 4, described as “daughter” and born in Berkhamsted. No details of the child have been discovered.
Eleanor died June 1903 aged 62 in the Union Workhouse, presumably in the infirmary, the only place for anyone unable to afford medical bills.
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