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Mary Emily Bamber
Mary Emily Bamber
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Mary Emily Bamber (1869-1939)
Mary was born in 1869 in Old Broad Street in the City of London and baptised 28th July 1869 at St Ethelburga, Bishop’s Gate, London. She was the daughter of John Bamber and Eliza Clara (née Maddin).
John was a silk broker’s clerk and at the time of Mary Emily’s birth he and Eliza had two other daughters and two sons and were able to afford a live-in domestic servant and a nursemaid for little Mary. Their last child, another daughter, was born in 1871.
When Mary was only three years’ old, in 1872, her mother died at the age of thirty four, and her father remarried.
Tracing Mary after 1881 has proved difficult but in 1911, then aged 42, she was employed as a “Lady help” to the wife of the vicar of Mordiford, a small village just outside Hereford. The household consisted of the vicar and his wife, a couple in their thirties; their three sons, all under seven and one a baby; the vicar’s spinster sister who was a missionary; a maternity nurse; another nurse; a housemaid and a cook.
By 1929 she appears in the Electoral Registers for Berkhamsted, living at “St David’s”, King’s Road, then at “The Beeches”, King’s Road and from that it is possible that she was employed in some capacity by Berkhamsted School for Girls, as these were boarding houses for the school.
At the time of her death at the age of 70 she was living at 200a, High Street, Berkhamsted. She died 4th May 1939 at West Herts hospital.
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Mary Emily Bamber (1869-1939)
Mary was born in 1869 in Old Broad Street in the City of London and baptised 28th July 1869 at St Ethelburga, Bishop’s Gate, London. She was the daughter of John Bamber and Eliza Clara (née Maddin).
John was a silk broker’s clerk and at the time of Mary Emily’s birth he and Eliza had two other daughters and two sons and were able to afford a live-in domestic servant and a nursemaid for little Mary. Their last child, another daughter, was born in 1871.
When Mary was only three years’ old, in 1872, her mother died at the age of thirty four, and her father remarried.
Tracing Mary after 1881 has proved difficult but in 1911, then aged 42, she was employed as a “Lady help” to the wife of the vicar of Mordiford, a small village just outside Hereford. The household consisted of the vicar and his wife, a couple in their thirties; their three sons, all under seven and one a baby; the vicar’s spinster sister who was a missionary; a maternity nurse; another nurse; a housemaid and a cook.
By 1929 she appears in the Electoral Registers for Berkhamsted, living at “St David’s”, King’s Road, then at “The Beeches”, King’s Road and from that it is possible that she was employed in some capacity by Berkhamsted School for Girls, as these were boarding houses for the school.
At the time of her death at the age of 70 she was living at 200a, High Street, Berkhamsted. She died 4th May 1939 at West Herts hospital.
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