The Hobbs Sisters
James and Elizabeth Hobbs (nee Thomas) also
had three daughters but unlike the sons the details are scarce
- MAUD - born 1882 London but information relating to this birth
is almost non-exsistent
-
LILY MAY - born 31st May 1883
Paddington London. Lily's
birth was registered in the September quarter of 1883 in the Kensington
district of London GRO ref Volume 1a Page5. Lily married a William John
Langler, on 28th August 1910 in Paddington London (GRO ref Paddington September
1910 Volume 1a Page 31) Died Hartford Ct - 9th March 1972
age 88.
- WINIFRED GRACE - birth registered in the June quarter of 1903 GRO Ref
Paddington Volume 1a Page 41. Died in the June quarter of 1908 Pontypridd
Volume 11a Page 316. WINIFRED was age 4 when she died. As the information on
the certificate states, Winifred was born at 16 Wharf, North Wharf Road,
Paddington on 30th April 1903. Quite unusually the birth was not registered
for nearly another two months (4th June 1903). Sometime in the next few years,
the family moved to the Rhondda Valley in South Wales where her father James
found employment as a coal-miner. Sadly, WINIFRED died on 13th March
1908 at 17 Vivien Street, Tylorstown, Glamorgan. She was just four years of
age. The cause of death was given as Laryngimus Stridulous, which is the
medical term for croup. It also states seven days next to the phrase which
means that Winifred must have suffered for at least a week with a condition
that was to take her life.
Winifred's grave in an unmarked plot in Ferndale
Cemetery, Rhondda, South Wales
And so the only sister that lived to adulthood was
LILY MAY HOBBS .
Fortunately the above photograph is inscribed on the
back "my birthday 31st May 1931". The lady on the left
is Lily May on her 48th birthday whilst the person sitting down
with the flowers is her mother and my great grandmother Elizabeth
Margaret Hobbs. To date I do not know who the other three people
are in the photo are or where the photograph was taken.
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