Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Lavinia Ann Jones (1147)

d.19/06/1944

Wife of PC Frederick Jones

Relatives

Frederick Jones — husband

• Jackie Jones

Lavinia Ann Warner came from Eton which was in Buckinghamshire in those days and her father was a ‘fly proprietor’, owning and hiring light horse-drawn carriages. Her parents George and Tamar lived and worked in Stoney Stratford, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

By 1881 she was working in Windsor as a servant.  On the 16thJanuary 1885 she married Frederick Jones. Between 1889 and 1893 they had three daughters –Minnie, Lilian and Daisy. After her husband retired from the police service she was working as a beer house keeper.

Lavinia lived till she was 80, latterly in Gossams End, Berkhamsted.  She died on 19th June 1944, nine years before her husband. They are buried together in Rectory Lane Cemetery.

Frederick Jones

27/10/1862 –23/04/1953

Police constable in Croydon, Dagenham & London

Relatives

Lavinia Ann Jones (1147) — wife

• Jackie Jones

Frederick Jones was born on 27th October 1862 in Ewhurst Surrey. His father, Abel Jones, had married three times and Frederick was the son of his third wife Emily Field. His father died only two years after Frederick was born at the age of 41. His mother went on to marry Isaac Longhurst, dying in 1907, predeceasing her husband by seven years. They all worked on the land or in service, not moving very far from where they all started off in Surrey.

By 1881 Frederick was a bricklayer living in lodgings. On the 16th January 1885 he married Lavinia Ann Warner from Eton. She was 21 and he was 22. He had moved to Croydon and become a policeman.  By 1891 they had moved to Dagenham in Essex. Between 1889 and 1893 they had three daughters –Minnie, Lilian and Daisy. By 1901 Frederick was a police constable with the Metropolitan Police and they lived in All Saints Westham. By July 1908 Frederick had retired from the police, receiving £54 3s and 10 pence a year pension.

After Frederick had retired they had moved to Bury Road, Hemel Hempstead and his wife was working as a beer house keeper. In 1918 his daughter, Lillian married for the second time, her first husband having been killed in France in 1915, and his profession on her marriage certificate was given as licensed victualler.

By 1922 they had moved to St John’s Rd, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead where they possibly had a beer house. By 1939 the couple had moved to Gossoms End in Berkhamsted, and he was described as a retired policeman.

His wife died on 19th June 1944 but Frederick went on till the age of 90, dying on 23rd April 1953 in Hemel Hempstead.  On his death he returned to Berkhamsted to be buried with his wife in Rectory Lane Cemetery.