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Title: Harriett Ann Willis
Post by: willis on Tuesday 07 January 14 21:29 GMT (UK)

Hi All

Am looking to see what happened to Harriett Ann Willis born 1865 in Polstead. She appears in the 1881 census as a servant to William Aggiss in Layham. Can find no record of her after this. Any help or thoughts appreciated.

                               Willis

Title: Re: Harriett Ann Willis
Post by: Greensleeves on Tuesday 07 January 14 21:57 GMT (UK)

There is a marriage of a Harriett Willis to either John Peverett or Henry Wiseman, Risbridge, Suffolk, Oct-Dec 1883 (ref vol 4a - 970).  Layham is in Babergh district which forms the eastern boundary of Risbridge, apparently, so it is in the right area. 

Title: Re: Harriett Ann Willis
Post by: AMBLY on Tuesday 07 January 14 22:03 GMT (UK)

Hi

Possible - and I see your Harriet's father was Joseph WILLIS, Ag Lab (in 1871)

1891: 75 Wells Rd, Sydenham, Lewsiham, London
RG12 / Piece 524, Folio 112,  Pg36
Head: John ATKINS 29, Carpenter, b Moulton, Norfolk
Wife: Harriet ATKINS 25, b Polehead Heath, Suffolk (sic)
Dau: Eliza ATKINS 3, b Polehead Heath, Suffolk (sic)
Son: Fredrick ATKINS 1, b Sydenham, Kent

FreeBMD MARRIAGE  Mar Qtr 1889, St Saviour - 2 names on page
Harriett Annie WILLIS
Abram John ATKINS

MARRIAGE: 1 January 1889 at Walworth All Saints, Newington, Surrey of:
Abram John ATKINS 27, Bachelor, Carman, of 23 Wills St, High Street (signed his X mark)
Father: John ATKINS, Carman
and
Harriett Annie WILLIS 23, Spinster, of 23 Wills St, High Street (signed)
Father: Joseph WILLIS, Gardener
With
Witness: William ATKINS, (signed his x Mark) and Harriet ATKINS (signed)

Cheers  :)
AMBLY

Title: Re: Harriett Ann Willis
Post by: AMBLY on Tuesday 07 January 14 22:16 GMT (UK)

This is the same family in 1901:

1901: 27 Chaplin Street, Sydenham, London
RG13-Piece 560, Folio 95 , page 26 & 24
Head: John ATKINS 40,  Cowman, b Norfolk
Wife: Harriet 36,  b Polstead, Suffolk
Day: Mary 13, b Sydenham, London
Son: Ernest 9, b Sydenham, London
Son: Sydney 4, b Forest Hill  London
Son: Francis 2, b Sydenham, London
Dau: Daisy 7mth, b Forest Hill, London

Cheers
AMBLY

Title: Re: Harriett Ann Willis
Post by: willis on Wednesday 08 January 14 19:37 GMT (UK)

Hi Both

Thanks for your replies. The Atkins family would certainly appear to be my Harriett Ann although how she would have gotten to that part of the world from Polstead is a mystery.

                           Many Thanks Again.

                                  Willis