Timeline

1837-02-26  Born Christening date at Withyham, Sussex to George Taylor and Diana Neve

1837-02-26  Christened in Withyham(ancestry record)

1841-04-01  Census, living Rings Smiths Cottage, Withyham, aged 4, with mother Diana and sister Ruth

1851-04-01  Census, living Withyham with father George, mother and siblings

1860-05-19  Married William Avis at St. Michaels Withyham

1861-04-01  Census, living Birchden Cottage, Rotherfield, with husband and children(and 71/81/91)

1861-08-15  Daughter Belinda Avis born at Birchden, Eridge Green, Rotherfield

1863-09-11  Daughter Ruth Elizabeth Avis born at Park Corner, Eridge Green, Rotherfield(registered as Eliza)

1865-11-07  Son George codger Avis born at Groombridge, Withyham, Sussex

1871-01-01  Daughter Emily Naomi Avis born at Eridge Green

1874-01-01  Daughter Naomi Priscilla Avis born at Eridge Green

1877-06-01  Daughter Alice Elsie Avis born at Birchden, Eridge Green

1885-05-24  Daughter Nellie Avis born at Christened in Eridge Green Parish Church

1901-04-01  Census, living Park Corner Road, Eridge Green, with husband and children

1911-04-01  Census, living 4 Myrtle Cottages, Groombridge as a widowed housekeeper

1928-09-06  Died 1 Summer Cottages,Rusthall,Tunbridge Wells


Notes:

The birth certificate of her son George shows that Harriet could not write. Her marriage certificate shows that her father George Taylor was a charcoal burner.Harriet died at the age of 91, at the house of her daughter Alice Peat, who was the informant. She was buried 10/09/1928 at St. Paul's New Churchyard Rusthall near Tunbridge Wells(confirmed by the Parish Administrator 6/1/2012). She was buried in block C, row 5, plot 15, and is behind the headstone erected for Elizabeth Garner, who died 13/5/1927. I have a map of the churchyard. The photo of Harriet was provided by Marion, the daughter of mum's brother Fred, who had kept this photo together with a photo of William her husband in a single photo frame. The original has the photographers name embossed on the bottom of the photo. It is Wheeler and Fisk-Moore Ltd. This photographer was at 38 High Street, Tunbridge Wells, from 1921 to 1924. 2/11/2014 - obtained this obituary online for Harriett. Sussex Courier Kent, England, 14 Sep 1928 GROOMBRIDGE FORMER RESIDENTS DEATH. Mrs. Harriet Avis, who was buried at Rusthall on Monday, had lived for most of her 91 years at Groombridge, which she left 10 years ago to live with one of her daughters at Rusthall.
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