Biography:
Emma Atkins
1848 –12-1921
Emma Atkins
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Unmarked grave Emma Akins (née White, late Rogers) (1848-1921)
Emma was born in the hamlet of Horsenden, Princes Risborough 1848. She was the daughter of Robert White, an agricultural labourer from Oxfordshire and his wife Mary Ann (née Rixon), a lace maker, also from Oxfordshire.
She was the youngest of their family of seven girls and two boys, her eldest sister being twenty years older than she was.
By 1861 the family had moved two miles north to the hamlet of Longwick where her father had taken on a small farm of 33 acres.
Emma married Gaius Rogers, a baker from Monks Risborough in 1866 and at the time of the 1871 census they were living at the “Duke of Wellington” in Longwick with his father, also a baker and their children Ruth (b.1866) , Ada (b.1869) and Owen (b.1870). The Duke of Wellington would appear to have been a public house at one time. It is now a private residence and stands at the junction of the A4009 and the A4444.
Their son Ernest was born in 1877, but tragedy struck the family the next year when Ada died aged only 9.
Sydney was born in 1880 and the family were still at the Duke of Wellington in the census of 1881, but Gaius died in 1883. The various records vary greatly on this year of birth, but it was probably 1845, meaning he was only 38 when he died.
Emma remarried in 1885 to Daniel Atkins, a baker journeyman. In 1891 they were living at 96, Apsley End, Hemel Hempstead with Charles and Ernest, both general labourers, and Sydney who was at school. The 1901 census shows only Emma and Sydney (now a printer) at the Apsley End address. Daniel was absent, but Emma is shown as married, not widowed. It has not been possible to trace him after 1891, nor is it possible to be certain about Emma’s whereabouts or when she was widowed.
Sydney enlisted for the army at Watford and served as a private in the 6th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. He was killed in France 20 March 1917.
This tragedy must have been a severe blow to Emma. By 1919 she had moved to
199, High Street and in the 1921 census it is clear that this was one of the Sayers Almshouses (now numbered 235-241).
Emma died in December 1921 aged 73 and was buried on the 15th of that month.
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Unmarked grave Emma Akins (née White, late Rogers) (1848-1921)
Emma was born in the hamlet of Horsenden, Princes Risborough 1848. She was the daughter of Robert White, an agricultural labourer from Oxfordshire and his wife Mary Ann (née Rixon), a lace maker, also from Oxfordshire.
She was the youngest of their family of seven girls and two boys, her eldest sister being twenty years older than she was.
By 1861 the family had moved two miles north to the hamlet of Longwick where her father had taken on a small farm of 33 acres.
Emma married Gaius Rogers, a baker from Monks Risborough in 1866 and at the time of the 1871 census they were living at the “Duke of Wellington” in Longwick with his father, also a baker and their children Ruth (b.1866) , Ada (b.1869) and Owen (b.1870). The Duke of Wellington would appear to have been a public house at one time. It is now a private residence and stands at the junction of the A4009 and the A4444.
Their son Ernest was born in 1877, but tragedy struck the family the next year when Ada died aged only 9.
Sydney was born in 1880 and the family were still at the Duke of Wellington in the census of 1881, but Gaius died in 1883. The various records vary greatly on this year of birth, but it was probably 1845, meaning he was only 38 when he died.
Emma remarried in 1885 to Daniel Atkins, a baker journeyman. In 1891 they were living at 96, Apsley End, Hemel Hempstead with Charles and Ernest, both general labourers, and Sydney who was at school. The 1901 census shows only Emma and Sydney (now a printer) at the Apsley End address. Daniel was absent, but Emma is shown as married, not widowed. It has not been possible to trace him after 1891, nor is it possible to be certain about Emma’s whereabouts or when she was widowed.
Sydney enlisted for the army at Watford and served as a private in the 6th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. He was killed in France 20 March 1917.
This tragedy must have been a severe blow to Emma. By 1919 she had moved to
199, High Street and in the 1921 census it is clear that this was one of the Sayers Almshouses (now numbered 235-241).
Emma died in December 1921 aged 73 and was buried on the 15th of that month.
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