Biography:
Lizzie Osborn
1859 –1927
Lizzie Osborn
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Unmarked grave Lizzie Osborn (née Garment) (1859-1927)
Lizzie was born in 1859 to Mary and James Garment in Aldbury. Her father was a chimney sweep and she had two older brothers. Her father died and in 1863 her mother married John Dickens.
Lizzie married labourer James Osborn in 1884 in Berkhamsted and Martha Mary (1886), James Ernest (1887) and Elsie Mabel (1891) were all born in Northchurch.
In 1891 they were living in Orchard End, Northchurch with Lizzie’s widowed mother Mary Dickens.
Percy Harold (1893), Frank John (1896), Arthur Henry (1898) and twins Marjorie Agnes and Dorothy Annie (1900) completed the family.
By 1901 James had become a rural postman and the family lived at 7, Cross Oak Road.
Tragically, Elsie Mabel died in January 1909 aged 18 and her brother Frank in September that year aged 14 at 8, Cross Oak Road They are both buried in this cemetery.
In 1911 James and Lizzie were still at number 8 with Ernest, Percy, Dorothy, Marjorie and Arthur.
By 1921 the couple had moved to “Roughcote”, 15, Queen’s Road where they would remain for the rest of their lives. Aged 61 James was described in the census as a temporary postman, working for the GPO in Berkhamsted. Arthur was employed as a clerk at the labour Exchange and Dorothy worked at John Dickinson’s in Apsley as did her twin Marjorie who, with her husband Joseph Smith, was living with her parents.
Lizzie died in March 1927 at 15, Queen’s Road aged 78. James survived her until 1940 and is buried in this cemetery.
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Unmarked grave Lizzie Osborn (née Garment) (1859-1927)
Lizzie was born in 1859 to Mary and James Garment in Aldbury. Her father was a chimney sweep and she had two older brothers. Her father died and in 1863 her mother married John Dickens.
Lizzie married labourer James Osborn in 1884 in Berkhamsted and Martha Mary (1886), James Ernest (1887) and Elsie Mabel (1891) were all born in Northchurch.
In 1891 they were living in Orchard End, Northchurch with Lizzie’s widowed mother Mary Dickens.
Percy Harold (1893), Frank John (1896), Arthur Henry (1898) and twins Marjorie Agnes and Dorothy Annie (1900) completed the family.
By 1901 James had become a rural postman and the family lived at 7, Cross Oak Road.
Tragically, Elsie Mabel died in January 1909 aged 18 and her brother Frank in September that year aged 14 at 8, Cross Oak Road They are both buried in this cemetery.
In 1911 James and Lizzie were still at number 8 with Ernest, Percy, Dorothy, Marjorie and Arthur.
By 1921 the couple had moved to “Roughcote”, 15, Queen’s Road where they would remain for the rest of their lives. Aged 61 James was described in the census as a temporary postman, working for the GPO in Berkhamsted. Arthur was employed as a clerk at the labour Exchange and Dorothy worked at John Dickinson’s in Apsley as did her twin Marjorie who, with her husband Joseph Smith, was living with her parents.
Lizzie died in March 1927 at 15, Queen’s Road aged 78. James survived her until 1940 and is buried in this cemetery.
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