Biography:
Ester Alice Gurney
1880 –26/01/1944
Ester Alice Gurney
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Plot 986 Ester Alice Gurney (1880-1944)
Ester was born in 1880 in Nash, Buckinghamshire, a village halfway between Buckingham and Bletchley,
The fourth child and third daughter of Hannah (née Brookes) and William Gurney. Her father was a farm labourer, her mother a lace maker.
By 1891 the family had moved to London Road, Loughton, Newport Pagnall where William was working as an agricultural labourer.
Like her older sister Annie, Ester came to Berkhamsted to work at the school as a parlour maid and in 1901 was working at St John’s in Chesham Road, a boarding house for Berkhamsted School for Boys where Annie was cook. In 1911 she was a parlour maid at the main school, employed by Head Master Charles H Green who lived there with his family and 78 pupils.
In 1919 Ester gave birth to a daughter, Jacqueline A M Gurney in Bedford. The father is not known.
Ester and Jacqueline went to live with her unmarried brother Thomas Alfred Gurney, a labourer at the London & North Western Railway carriage works in Wolverton, lying between Stoney Stratford and Newport in Buckinghamshire.
Neither Ester nor Jacqueline have been located in the 1939 Register but Jacqueline married in Northampton in that year.
Ester died in Northampton 26 January 1944 aged 64 and was brought back to lie with her sister here.
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Plot 986 Ester Alice Gurney (1880-1944)
Ester was born in 1880 in Nash, Buckinghamshire, a village halfway between Buckingham and Bletchley,
The fourth child and third daughter of Hannah (née Brookes) and William Gurney. Her father was a farm labourer, her mother a lace maker.
By 1891 the family had moved to London Road, Loughton, Newport Pagnall where William was working as an agricultural labourer.
Like her older sister Annie, Ester came to Berkhamsted to work at the school as a parlour maid and in 1901 was working at St John’s in Chesham Road, a boarding house for Berkhamsted School for Boys where Annie was cook. In 1911 she was a parlour maid at the main school, employed by Head Master Charles H Green who lived there with his family and 78 pupils.
In 1919 Ester gave birth to a daughter, Jacqueline A M Gurney in Bedford. The father is not known.
Ester and Jacqueline went to live with her unmarried brother Thomas Alfred Gurney, a labourer at the London & North Western Railway carriage works in Wolverton, lying between Stoney Stratford and Newport in Buckinghamshire.
Neither Ester nor Jacqueline have been located in the 1939 Register but Jacqueline married in Northampton in that year.
Ester died in Northampton 26 January 1944 aged 64 and was brought back to lie with her sister here.
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