Mrs Susan HOOKINS (Tree A)

As mentioned elsewhere on the blog posts Susan HOOKINS was married to William and they were my great grandparents.
After William's death in 1932 Susan went to live with her daughter Alice in Shrewsbury after spending 50 years in the village of Pawlett near Bridgwater.
She died in 1938 in Shrewsbury.

I am indebted to my cousin Ken HOLMES who has sent me the attached copy of the funeral account of our mutual great grandmother.
The mourners were her children Samuel, Frederick, Henry HOOKINS and Alice ROBERTS together with her Samuel's daughter Violet. Also present were Beatrice INDER (niece) and other nieces and a nephew I can't identify namely Mr C WILKINS, Mrs T WILKINS and Mrs E LANE (probably related to sister-in-law Alice who married William's brother Jesse). Susan's children Walter and Ada (now RODBER) were unable to attend.
Amongst the floral tributes were those from May and Bob ROBERTS (daughter and son-in-law), Daisy and Richard HOLMES (granddaughter and husband - also Ken's parents), Grace GRIFFITHS (granddaughter), Mr and Mrs KING (relatives of daughter-in-law Naomi?).
The Undertaker was W Inder & Son of Higbridge, the family into which Susan's granddaughter had married.
Susan was interred with the ashes of her late husband in the churchyard in Pawlett.

Arthur HOOKINS (Tree A)

Arthur HOOKINS was born on 11th August 1864 at 68 Marlborough Street, Chelsea. He was the youngest of the 10 children born to William HOOKINS and his wife Lydia Jane (nee BENNETT). The family stayed at this address for some time being recorded there in the Censuses taken in 1871, 1881 and 1891 by which time Arthur had followed his father's profession as a Master Bootmaker. He married Ella WRIDE on 1st August 1892 in Fulham and a daughter was to be born to them the following year only for her to die a year later. The Post Office Directories in 1899 listed Arthur as being 2 doors away at 70 Marlborough Street but this may be in question as most of his life seems to be linked to No. 68.
By the 1901 Census Arthur and Ella were still to be found at 68 Marlborough Street with children Florence (Flossie) born in 1895 and Lizzie born in 1898. By this time Arthur's father had been dead for more than 2 years and his mother for 10 years but Arthur's brother George was living with them at that time. Further Post Office Directories in 1904, 1906 and 1907 show Hookins Brothers as Bootmakers at 104 Landor Road, Stockwell which as the picture shows now appears to be a cafe.

104 Landor Road next to Newsagents with a door to the accommodation next to the shop

By 1911 the family, including brother George, are shown to be living at 104 Landor Road and another child, Arthur William, has been added to their number.
Further Post Office Directories in 1913-1915 show Arthur and George working together as Boot and Shoe Makers at 70 Draycott Road back in Chelsea just a few streets away from their former residence at Marlborough Street but the Directory in 1919 has them back in Landor Road but this time at No. 102 which now appears to be a house so that information may not be accurate either.
Arthur died in Lambeth in 1924 at the age of 59 although Ella was to outlive him by a further 30 years.