Moon.

[avm228]

In the 1891 census Stephen and William Moon are both lodgers at 118 All Saints St, Hastings.

Head of household is a widowed nurse, Margaret Hyde, 65 b Lewes.

RG12/759/46/4.

[Girl Guide]

Is this Doris?

MOON, DORIS  MARGARET     JENNER 
GRO Reference: 1910  J Quarter in HASTINGS  Volume 02B  Page 14

Parents marriage?

Marriages Jun 1907

JENNER    Eliza Jane        Hastings    2b   25    
MOON    William John        Hastings    2b   25

[PaulineJ]

Is this Doris?
MOON, DORIS  MARGARET     JENNER 
GRO Reference: 1910  J Quarter in HASTINGS  Volume 02B  Page 14

As per my suggestion in reply#1 (along with the 1911 census)?
Looks like it was, yes.
Pauline

[Girl Guide]

Ah sorry Pauline, I missed seeing that Doris in the list that you provided 

Modified: Just putting the full details of William's birth as mentioned by Carole.

MOON, WILLIAM  JOHN     FOORD 
GRO Reference: 1883  D Quarter in HASTINGS  Volume 02B  Page 17

[barryd]

If you have the urge to move there are plenty of houses in All Saints Street.

[cuffie81]

Hastings and St Leonards Observer
09 Feb 1889
Lamp Accident
An inquest was held at the Hospital, on Friday, upon the body of a young widow named Moon. The facts elicited at the enquiry were somewhat remarkable. The evidence showed that deceased was much burned through the explosion of a paraffin lamp. Deceased suffered from heart disease and the Jury's verdict was that she succumbed to an attack of this, accelerated by burning. It also appeared that some months ago deceased's child was burnt to death, and some few years back her husband was severely burned.

[louisa maud]

How very  sad

One of my husbands relatives was severely  burnt and resulted in her death, she was helping a child with her homework,  leant oboe the fire to get a slate and board and her crinoline  caught fire, I  suspect it was quite a common occurrences, thank God times have changed, sad times, this family  were left as orphans

Louisa Maud

[jpankfolly]

Thank you every body for all of this. I haven't had internet for a few days and gave only just been able to get a connection. Poor Sarah moon . How awful. William John moon was my husband grt grandfather.  And its interesting to see that her bad heart gets a mention as that seems to have come up through the family to present day.
It all makes sad but interesting reading. Thanks again.  I'm really grateful.

[Annie65115]

I hate to put a dampener on the idea that a "bad heart" has been passed down the family BUT --- the likeliest cause by a looooooong shot of heart disease in a young woman in those days would have been as an aftermath of rheumatic fever, probably as child.So secondary to an infection and not anything to do with genetics.

Congenital heart disease (ie the sort that some babies are born with) (depending on type) has some familial tendencies but only a weak link.

The commonest heart disease these days is due to atheroma, in older people, and the tendency to develop this can certainly be increased in some families, but it is also heavily associated with lifestyle --weight. smoking, lack of exercise etc -- and it's very unlikely that this young woman would have suffered from that.

Obviously we don't have the finer details, and never say never etc etc, but don't assume that "heart disease" in the 1800s was the same sort of thing as nowadays, nor that it's necessarily hereditary.