Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

John Hoar (677)

18/02/1852 –09/05/1908

Engine Driver, labourer and chemical foreman.

Relatives

Eliza Hoar — wife

Ellen Hoar — wife

• Wendy Calder

John Hoar 1852-1908

 John Hoar was born in Hemel Hempstead on 18^th February 1852.  In 1871, he was an engine driver living in Ellesmere Road with his mother and stepfather.  Also he was recorded as a visitor to the Nash Household in Ravens Lane, which included daughter Ellen.  The following year John and Ellen married.  They had three children, Herbert William whose birth was announced in The Herts Advertiser “August 7 at Ellesmere Road, Berkhampstead, the wife of Mr John Hoar, of a son”, Henry, who was born on 20^th January 1876 and Helen born in the second quarter of 1878.  His wife Ellen died aged 24 in the third quarter of 1879.

In the 1881 census, John was working as a general labourer and living with his three children in Provident Place.  On the 29^th October at Hemel Hempstead Parish Church, John Hoar aged 29 married Eliza Gower aged 33. 

John is mentioned in the Bucks Herald on a couple of occasions: On 7th November 1885, “Mr John Hoar, a working man, was nominated and elected to the Committee for the Cottage Garden Allotments” and 31st January 1891 “On Tuesday at Progress Hall, a capital entertainment was given in conjunction with the Co-operative Society, Mr John Hoar, presided”.

By 1891 he had been promoted to foreman at the chemical works and was living in Cowper Road with Eliza and his three children.  By 1901 he was still living in Cowper Road with Eliza.  He is shown in the Register of Electors as being able to vote in both Parliamentary and Parochial Elections.

John died on the 9 May 1908.  According to the Probate Calendar, he was still resident in 3 Cowper Road and his estate was valued at £1683.3s.3d, probate being granted to widow Eliza and son Harry.

Eliza Hoar

1848 –15/08/1928

Second wife of John Hoar

Relatives

John Hoar (677) — husband

• Wendy Calder

Eliza Hoar née Gower 1848-1928

 Eliza Hoar was born in the first quarter of 1848 in Great Gaddesden/Water End, Hemel Hempstead.

As a child she moved to Boxted, Hemel Hempstead where she lived with her parents until she married John Hoar, a widower with three children, on 29^th October, 1881 in Hemel Hempstead Parish Church.  Eliza was a straw plaiter.  In 1891 and 1901 she was residing in Cowper Road with John.  Following his death on 9 May 1908, Eliza moved to 15 Cross Oak Road.  Eliza Hoar was listed in the Register of Electors for Parochial Elections. Eliza died aged 80 on 15 August 1928.