Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Joyce Hague

d.06/02/1944

Born in Salford, never married, died in Ilkley, buried with parents in Berkhamsted

Relatives

Daniel Hague — father

Mary Hague — mother

• Jackie Jones

Joyce Hague was the youngest child of Daniel and Florence Hague.  She was born in Salford on 23rd February 1895.

She never married and lived on and off with her parents, except when they were in London, including with her widowed mother just before the Second World War.

She died before the end of the war in 1944 in Ilkley in Yorkshire where she was living at the time.

She joined her parents in Rectory Lane cemetery.

Mary Hague

d.21/03/1941

Originally from Yorkshire, daughter of weathy landowners and yarn manufacturers. Had three children.

Relatives

Daniel Hague — husband

Joyce Hague — daughter

• Jackie Jones

Florence (Mary) was born on 9th March 1860 near Leeds in Yorkshire to Edward Kitchin and Martha Kitchen, nee Ramsden. They were landowners and yarn manufacturers. It was a second marriage for her father who already had several children and had been widowed.

She married Daniel Hague in June 1887, in Thorner, a village in Yorkshire. Their home was the manor house.

Daniel and Florence moved around the country – in 1871 they lived in Buxton in Derbyshire; by 1891 in Salford near Manchester; by 1911 they were living in Kerhill, Manchester.  They had three children whilst they were living in Salford: Phyllis, Edward Greave and Joyce.

By 1923 the family had moved to Graemsdyke Road, Berkhamsted, calling their house ‘Thorner’ after the village in which they had been married.

Daniel died in 1926.  Florence and her younger daughter Joyce continued to live in Graemsdyke Road. They were comfortably off so were possibly part of the influential society in Berkhamsted. Florence died in 1941 in Hemel Hempstead and was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery with her husband. She left a substantial sum in her will to her daughters Joyce and Phyllis and a nephew.

Daniel Hague

d.19/08/1926

Civil engineer originally from Yorkshire, son of wealthy landowner and yarn manufacturer.

Relatives

Mary Hague — wife

Joyce Hague — daughter

• Jackie Jones

Daniel was born in Shaw in Lancashire in 1852. His father, also called Daniel, was a cotton manufacturer and a wealthy landowner.  His mother, Mary was from a wealthy family in Saddleworth in Yorkshire, also in the cotton trade. Daniel was their last of six children as his father died at the young age of 38.

Daniel lived at home until, apart from a short period in Liverpool in 1879. He married Florence (Mary) Kitchin in June 1887, when he was 35 and she was 28.  They married in Thorner, a village in Yorkshire. Their home was the manor house.

Florence’s father, Edward, was a leather/cloth manufacturer, a farmer and a gentleman. Her mother, Martha Ramsden (she was Edwards’s second wife) was also from a family of landowners.  On their marriage certificate, Daniel, his father, was described as a ‘yarn manufacturer’.

Daniel and Florence moved around the country – in 1871 they lived in Buxton in Derbyshire; by 1891 in Salford near Manchester; by 1911 they were living in Kerhill, Manchester.  They had three children whilst they were living in Salford: Phyllis, Edward Greave and Joyce.

Daniel would have been too old to have fought in the First World War but his son Edward Greaves was in the army in London. In 1918 they were living together in Hampstead, London. Edward had married Dorothy Masaroon in 1917. Her family, although originally from Ireland, were living in Charles Street, Berkhamsted.  They had also been in the cotton and manufacturing trade.

By 1923 the family had moved to Graemsdyke Road, Berkhamsted, calling their house ‘Thorner’ after the village in which Daniel and Florence had been married.  Daniel was described as a civil engineer who dealt with cleaning pipes.

Daniel died in 1926 and was buried in Rectory Lane cemetery. They were still a wealthy family and his widow Florence and daughter Joyce were able to live comfortably for the next 18 years in Berkhamsted.