Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

William Stacey(530)

19/01/1831 –18/03/1898

A boot and shoe maker

Relatives

Norah Augusta Stacey — daughter

Hannah Stacey — wife

Clara Ada Stacey (944) — daughter

Hannah Stacey (944) — daughter

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 530 William Edgar Stacey (1831-1898)

William was born 19 January 1831 in Salisbury workhouse to Ann Stacey, single woman. He was baptised in St Thomas’s church 16 February.

He became a boot and shoemaker and married Hannah Walsh, a shoemaker’s daughter from Bristol, in late 1858 in the City of London.

John was born in 1861, followed by Mary Ann (1863), Hannah (1865), William (1866), Theresa (1868) – all in London

In 1870 Edward Miles was born but died very shortly afterwards.

By 1871 the family had moved to Ellesmere Road, Berkhamsted where Clara Ada was born (1873) and Nora Augusta (1876).

In 1881 the family lived in Raven’s Lane. In February 1889 Hannah died. (She is buried in plot 944) and in 1891 William was living in Gravel Path with daughters Hannah, housekeeper, Clara and Nora, a pupil teacher.

In July 1892 Nora Augusta died aged only 16.

William died 18 March 1898 at Gravel Path aged 69.

His daughter Hannah is buried in plot 944.

Norah Augusta Stacey

1875 –1892

Daughter of shoemaker William Stacey and his wife Hannah; died age 16 years

Relatives

Clara Ada Stacey (944) — sister

Hannah Stacey — mother

William Stacey(530) — father

Hannah Stacey (944) — sister

• Jane Beaty

Norah Augusta STACEY – grave location uncertain
but most likely to be with her father William STACEY, given the inscription recorded here.

Norah Augusta STACEY born Q2 1875 in Berkhamsted, the daughter of William, a shoemaker and Hannah STACEY. The couple had started their married life in Bloomsbury, London where their first five children were born. They then moved to Berkhamsted where they had a little boy called Edward who died in infancy followed by Clara Ada and lastly Nora Augusta.

In 1881 by the time Nora was 6, the family were living in Ravens Lane. Nora’s father William was working as a shoemaker and mother Hannah was there with Nora and some of her siblings Mary Ann 18, Annie 16, William 15, Theresa 13, Clara Ada 7.

Nora’s mother Hannah died in 1889, leaving her husband William living with some of their daughters. She is buried in Plot 944 in the cemetery.  By 1891 Nora A STACEY was living with her father and 2 sisters Hannah and Clara, neither of whom were working. She was 15 years old and described as a schoolteacher. So she had a bright future ahead of her.

In September 1892 Nora Augusta STACEY died at the tender age of 16. She is buried in the cemetery as were her father, who died six years later and her elder sister Hannah who stayed in Berkhamsted all her life and lived to be 78.