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Kate Broughall (859)
1867 –1937
Kate Broughall (859)
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Unmarked grave Kate Broughall (née Catlin)
Kate was born in 1869 in St Albans to William Catlin, a bricklayer’s labourer, and Sarah (née Furness), a straw hat maker. The family lived in Mud Lane, St Albans, and she had three older sisters and two older brothers.
By 1881, when the family were living in the slightly more pleasant-sounding Pound Field, St Albans, two more sons and a daughter had been added to the family. Kate, aged 12, and the younger children were “scholars” but all the older ones were working – two basket makers, one straw hat stiffener, and two silk throwsters.
With such a large family at home it was not surprising that in the 1891 census Kate was recorded as a live-in servant to Sarah Harwood, a widow of independent means living in Portland Street, St Albans.
Kate married George Broughall, a coachman, born in Luton, in St Albans in 1898. Their daughter Lydia Violet (b.1900) and son George Reginald (b.1902) were both born in St Albans at Clifton Street.
By 1911 they had moved to Berkhamsted and were living at 11, New Street, off Ellesmere Road in a four-roomed house. George was described in the census as “coachman. Job master”. A job master hired out horse-drawn vehicles for domestic use.
Ten years later George, Kate and Lydia Violet lived at 24, Victoria Road and George was employed as a carter by Gilbert Bros., builders. Lydia Violet as working as a private domestic nurse.
Kate died in 1937 aged 67.
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Unmarked grave Kate Broughall (née Catlin)
Kate was born in 1869 in St Albans to William Catlin, a bricklayer’s labourer, and Sarah (née Furness), a straw hat maker. The family lived in Mud Lane, St Albans, and she had three older sisters and two older brothers.
By 1881, when the family were living in the slightly more pleasant-sounding Pound Field, St Albans, two more sons and a daughter had been added to the family. Kate, aged 12, and the younger children were “scholars” but all the older ones were working – two basket makers, one straw hat stiffener, and two silk throwsters.
With such a large family at home it was not surprising that in the 1891 census Kate was recorded as a live-in servant to Sarah Harwood, a widow of independent means living in Portland Street, St Albans.
Kate married George Broughall, a coachman, born in Luton, in St Albans in 1898. Their daughter Lydia Violet (b.1900) and son George Reginald (b.1902) were both born in St Albans at Clifton Street.
By 1911 they had moved to Berkhamsted and were living at 11, New Street, off Ellesmere Road in a four-roomed house. George was described in the census as “coachman. Job master”. A job master hired out horse-drawn vehicles for domestic use.
Ten years later George, Kate and Lydia Violet lived at 24, Victoria Road and George was employed as a carter by Gilbert Bros., builders. Lydia Violet as working as a private domestic nurse.
Kate died in 1937 aged 67.
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