Biography:
Lizzie King
1874 –12/12/1933
Lizzie King
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Plot 723 Lizzie (nee Hodby) King (1874-1933)
Lizzie was born in 1874, in Yelden, Beds, the eighth child of Hoham Whitelark Hodby and his wife Martha (known as Esther) (née Boddington). Her father was an agricultural labourer. In about Between Lizzie’s birth and the 1881 census Hoham had moved his family to Bencroft Grange in Rushden, Northants.
In 1897 Lizzie married Thomas King, born in Meppershall, Beds, a gas works stoker, in Wellingborough district, Northants.
The couple lived at 6, Park Road, Rushden. John Thomas was born in 1899, followed by Mabel Mary (1900), Arthur William (1905) and Ernest Frederick in 1908, by which time the family had moved to Berkhamsted.
By the 1911 census the family was living at Gas Works Cottage, Billet Lane, Gossoms End. Thomas was foreman of the gasworks.
In 1921 he was still the gas works foreman, with his son Arthur, assisting him.
Lizzie died 12 December 1933. Thomas survived her until 1946 and is buried here with her,
as is Mabel, who had married just before war broke out, but died in 1940.
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Plot 723 Lizzie (nee Hodby) King (1874-1933)
Lizzie was born in 1874, in Yelden, Beds, the eighth child of Hoham Whitelark Hodby and his wife Martha (known as Esther) (née Boddington). Her father was an agricultural labourer. In about Between Lizzie’s birth and the 1881 census Hoham had moved his family to Bencroft Grange in Rushden, Northants.
In 1897 Lizzie married Thomas King, born in Meppershall, Beds, a gas works stoker, in Wellingborough district, Northants.
The couple lived at 6, Park Road, Rushden. John Thomas was born in 1899, followed by Mabel Mary (1900), Arthur William (1905) and Ernest Frederick in 1908, by which time the family had moved to Berkhamsted.
By the 1911 census the family was living at Gas Works Cottage, Billet Lane, Gossoms End. Thomas was foreman of the gasworks.
In 1921 he was still the gas works foreman, with his son Arthur, assisting him.
Lizzie died 12 December 1933. Thomas survived her until 1946 and is buried here with her,
as is Mabel, who had married just before war broke out, but died in 1940.
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