Kate Hartley - a Glemsford child
In a new comment on the Deeks and Hartley family:
http://www.glemsford.org.uk/2006/12/deeks-and-hartley-families.html
Alison Carroll has written:
I have picked up a book from a carboot sale that was awarded to a Kate Hartley in 1903 whilst attending the Glemsford Board School. Do you know any more about this Kate Hartley?
So far, I have been able to offer these little snippets of conjecture:
Hartley is a very familiar Glemsford name - my website includes the reminiscences of life in the village in the 1920s by Ted Hartley, part of a family of wheelwrights that lived and worked in the village for generations.
However, I suspect that your Kate was probably the daughter of Joseph and Kate Hartley of Brook Street. Joseph was a "Cocoanut Mat Maker" - a very common Glemsford occupation. In the 1901 Census, Katie had 3 brothers - Eliazer, Lambert and Colin, aged 15, 13 and 10 respectively, and 3 sisters, Hilda, Edie and Madge (5, 3 and 1). Katie was 8 in 1901. Joseph was born in Cavendish, Kate in Boxted and all the children, including Katie, in Glemsford.
Just a little extra human detail.
If my assumption is right - and this Katie is the only child of (anything approaching) that name! - there are one or two other points to make.
Katie is mentioned in the School log book for September 1896, thus:
"21st School visited by Mr Game this afternoon. Received notice that Kate Hartley and Alice Malyon each 3 years of age, will remain at home until the winter is past."
so she seems to have started school young! Again, this was quite typical in Glemsford.
More sadly, her brother Eliazer features on the Glemsford War Memorial, and also at http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/Glemsford.html:
HARTLEY Eliazer Private 17440, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Killed in action Thursday 28th March 1918 in France & Flanders. Age 33.
Born Glemsford, Suffolk, enlisted Sudbury.
Son of Joseph Porter Hartley and Kate Hartley, of 8, Pump Square, Lavenham; husband of Mercy Adelaide Hartley, of 21, Bolton St., Lavenham, Suffolk.
Commemorated ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 4
As usual, if anyone else can contribute more to yet another very human story, Allison and I would be delighted to hear from you.
SC
http://www.glemsford.org.uk/2006/12/deeks-and-hartley-families.html
Alison Carroll has written:
I have picked up a book from a carboot sale that was awarded to a Kate Hartley in 1903 whilst attending the Glemsford Board School. Do you know any more about this Kate Hartley?
So far, I have been able to offer these little snippets of conjecture:
Hartley is a very familiar Glemsford name - my website includes the reminiscences of life in the village in the 1920s by Ted Hartley, part of a family of wheelwrights that lived and worked in the village for generations.
However, I suspect that your Kate was probably the daughter of Joseph and Kate Hartley of Brook Street. Joseph was a "Cocoanut Mat Maker" - a very common Glemsford occupation. In the 1901 Census, Katie had 3 brothers - Eliazer, Lambert and Colin, aged 15, 13 and 10 respectively, and 3 sisters, Hilda, Edie and Madge (5, 3 and 1). Katie was 8 in 1901. Joseph was born in Cavendish, Kate in Boxted and all the children, including Katie, in Glemsford.
Just a little extra human detail.
If my assumption is right - and this Katie is the only child of (anything approaching) that name! - there are one or two other points to make.
Katie is mentioned in the School log book for September 1896, thus:
"21st School visited by Mr Game this afternoon. Received notice that Kate Hartley and Alice Malyon each 3 years of age, will remain at home until the winter is past."
so she seems to have started school young! Again, this was quite typical in Glemsford.
More sadly, her brother Eliazer features on the Glemsford War Memorial, and also at http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/Glemsford.html:
HARTLEY Eliazer Private 17440, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Killed in action Thursday 28th March 1918 in France & Flanders. Age 33.
Born Glemsford, Suffolk, enlisted Sudbury.
Son of Joseph Porter Hartley and Kate Hartley, of 8, Pump Square, Lavenham; husband of Mercy Adelaide Hartley, of 21, Bolton St., Lavenham, Suffolk.
Commemorated ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 4
As usual, if anyone else can contribute more to yet another very human story, Allison and I would be delighted to hear from you.
SC
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