Lucy HOOKINS was baptised on 15 January 1835 at Holy Trinity Church in Exeter, the 6th of 8 children born to John HOOKINS and his wife Ann (nee SOUTHEY).
Holy Trinity Church Exeter
In the first UK Census in 1841, although only 6 years old, Lucy was not at the family home in Brockley, but is shown as being a pupil at a school in Yatton along with her sister Fanny, both recorded as HOOKINGS.
Lucy's father died in 1848 at the age of 45 and the next Census in 1851 finds Lucy at school in Clerkenwell, London in Hermes House, Hermes Street. This was a small charity school with just 15 girl pupils (the boys had been transferred to Collier Street in1811). Here Lucy is recorded as HOCKINS.
By 1861 Lucy was a Governess and was visiting a Sarah JOYER at 11 Aberdeen Terrace in Westbury on Trym. Sarah was a Landed Proprietor and Lucy is recorded as HASKINS. Interestingly Lucy's mother had lived at 6 Aberdeen Terrace just 10 years earlier which, judging by the 1861 Census, was a school.
By 1871 Lucy was at West Clifton House, West Park, Westbury on Trym as Companion to Thomasine LARDY whose income was derived from Dividends but who died in 1880. So in 1881 Lucy was visiting at 16 Hampton Park, Westbury on Trym where her income now came from Dividends, as did that of the Head of the household L G STEVENSON who came from the West Indies.
By 1891 Lucy had become a Lady's Companion to a Maria CHARLES who lived at 1 Worcester Villas in Clifton, Bristol but by 1901 she had moved away to Coventry where she was living on her own means with her widowed sister Millicent and Millicent's niece at Warwick Close.
Both sisters had moved to Endallion, Grove Park Road in Weston-super-Mare by 1911 together with Millicent's nephew, niece and 2 servants. Sister Millicent died there in 1919 and Lucy stayed in the house until her own death in January 1925.
