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Mary Loader
1815 –1851
Mary Loader
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Plot x178 Mary Loader née East
Mary East was born in Buckinghamshire in about 1815. She married Frederick Loader of Berkhamsted in Chesham on 11th November 1834. Frederick, the son of John and Mary Loader, had been born on 6th November 1814 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 7th May 1815.
Their eldest daughter, Emma, was born in 1836 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 25th December that year but by 1841 they lived in Church Street, Chesham, where Frederick worked as a Tailor. Mary has no occupation given as by then they had three daughters: Emma aged 5, Sarah, 3 and Margaret, 1. Both Mary and Frederick were recorded as being 25 years old, though the 1841 Census conveniently rounded the ages of adults to the nearest 5 years.
In the next six years, Mary and Frederick had three sons: Robert, born in 1842, John William, born in late 1844 or early 1845 and Frederick, born in 1847. All three of the boys together with their sisters Sarah and Margaret were baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 14th June 1847, suggesting that the family had moved to Berkhamsted by that date.
However, Frederick died as an infant in December 1847. The Burial Register for St Peter’s Berkhamsted records that Frederick Loader aged 7 months was buried on 29th December by Stephen Lea Wilson, Curate of St Peter’s.
Further misfortune was to follow. Another son, also named Frederick, was born on 19th December 1848 and baptised at St Peter’s on 26th March 1849. However, he died aged 1 year and was buried on 2nd March 1850 by Stephen Lea Wilson, Curate. In the Burial Register he is recorded as an Infant.
Mary Loader died aged 36 in February 1851 and was buried in Rectory Lane on 28th February 1851, the service taken by Stephen Lea Wilson, Curate.
The 1851 Census, taken on 30th March, shows Mary’s widowed husband Frederick Loader, aged 36, resident in Castle Street, Berkhamsted and working as an Inn Keeper and Tailor, employing three men. A Post Office Directory entry for that year confirms that he lived at the Castle Inn. Six of Frederick and Mary’s children lived at home with him: Emma, 15, Sarah 13, Margaret 10, Robert 8, John 6 and 1 month old Frederick. Sarah, Margaret, Robert and John were all at school, and the household also included a Housekeeper, an Ostler and an Apprentice Tailor as well as three lodgers.
Baby Frederick was the third child of that name born to Mary and Frederick Loader. Given his age and the date of his mother’s death, it is very possible that Mary Loader died as the result of complications during or following childbirth.
On 26th July 1854 Frederick Loader Senior, aged 39, with his children Sarah, 16, Robert, 11, John W, 8 and Frederick, 3 left the Port of London aboard the ship Sir Robert Peel bound for New York to start a new life in America.
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Plot x178 Mary Loader née East
Mary East was born in Buckinghamshire in about 1815. She married Frederick Loader of Berkhamsted in Chesham on 11th November 1834. Frederick, the son of John and Mary Loader, had been born on 6th November 1814 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 7th May 1815.
Their eldest daughter, Emma, was born in 1836 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 25th December that year but by 1841 they lived in Church Street, Chesham, where Frederick worked as a Tailor. Mary has no occupation given as by then they had three daughters: Emma aged 5, Sarah, 3 and Margaret, 1. Both Mary and Frederick were recorded as being 25 years old, though the 1841 Census conveniently rounded the ages of adults to the nearest 5 years.
In the next six years, Mary and Frederick had three sons: Robert, born in 1842, John William, born in late 1844 or early 1845 and Frederick, born in 1847. All three of the boys together with their sisters Sarah and Margaret were baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 14th June 1847, suggesting that the family had moved to Berkhamsted by that date.
However, Frederick died as an infant in December 1847. The Burial Register for St Peter’s Berkhamsted records that Frederick Loader aged 7 months was buried on 29th December by Stephen Lea Wilson, Curate of St Peter’s.
Further misfortune was to follow. Another son, also named Frederick, was born on 19th December 1848 and baptised at St Peter’s on 26th March 1849. However, he died aged 1 year and was buried on 2nd March 1850 by Stephen Lea Wilson, Curate. In the Burial Register he is recorded as an Infant.
Mary Loader died aged 36 in February 1851 and was buried in Rectory Lane on 28th February 1851, the service taken by Stephen Lea Wilson, Curate.
The 1851 Census, taken on 30th March, shows Mary’s widowed husband Frederick Loader, aged 36, resident in Castle Street, Berkhamsted and working as an Inn Keeper and Tailor, employing three men. A Post Office Directory entry for that year confirms that he lived at the Castle Inn. Six of Frederick and Mary’s children lived at home with him: Emma, 15, Sarah 13, Margaret 10, Robert 8, John 6 and 1 month old Frederick. Sarah, Margaret, Robert and John were all at school, and the household also included a Housekeeper, an Ostler and an Apprentice Tailor as well as three lodgers.
Baby Frederick was the third child of that name born to Mary and Frederick Loader. Given his age and the date of his mother’s death, it is very possible that Mary Loader died as the result of complications during or following childbirth.
On 26th July 1854 Frederick Loader Senior, aged 39, with his children Sarah, 16, Robert, 11, John W, 8 and Frederick, 3 left the Port of London aboard the ship Sir Robert Peel bound for New York to start a new life in America.
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