Saturday, September 22, 2018

Emma Rebecca HOOKINS (Tree 2H)

Another Emma HOOKINS - this one born as Emma Rebecca FROST on 29 June 1872 to parents Robert Benjamin and Charlotte FROST.
She appears in her first Census in 1881 when she was living at 11 St Georges Mews in St Pancras with her parents and 3 younger siblings. By 1891 those siblings were now numbered at 4 and the family were at 5 Erskine Mews, St John in Hampstead.
Emma married George Joseph HOOKINS on 3 August 1896 at St Mary the Virgin Church which is believed to be in Hampstead - the marriage certificate copy I have is not easy to decipher. In May of the following year their first child, Ethel Ada Annie was born in Lonesome, Mitcham with Eva Florence Charlotte joining her 3 years later when born at 3 Rupert Terrace, London  Road in Mitcham.
In the 1901 Census Emma is recorded as Emily and living with her husband and 2 children at 5 Smith Terrace, St Peter & St Paul, Mitcham. Living next door was George's widowed mother and 3 of his siblings.

The 1911 Census brought yet another incorrect name transcription as the family name is recorded as HACKINS but Emma and George are at St Mawes Cottages, Fernlea Road in Mitcham with their 2 daughters and also a cou
ple of boarders.
George died on 3 August 1939 at the age of 70 so the 1939 Register shows Emma living as a widow at 42 Fernlea Road in Mitcham along with the widowed Amelia FROST and a lodger.
Emma was 75 years old when she died on 7 February 1948 and five days later she was buried in the Victoria/London Road Cemetery in Mitcham.

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