Birth: About 1857 Southampton, Hampshire, UK
Father: Isaac Light 1838-1887
Mother: Annabella Crutcher 1839-a1881
Marriage: 1 May 1889 Lymington Registry Office, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Noah Hughes 1853-1927
Death: January-March 1938 4 Pound Lane, Christchurch, Hampshire, UK
Frederick Henry Hughes 1887-a1901
George Hughes 1878-1891
Mark Cooper 1881-1954
Walter Cooper 1883-a1910
Nelson Hughes 1884-1897
Louisa Hughes 1886-a1901
Amy Hughes [Angell] 1887-a1909
Betsy Hughes 1892
Eliza Rebecca Hughes 1896-a1901
Noah Hughes 1899-a1901
Joseph Hughes 1900-1965
Annabella Hughes 1902-1932
I cannot find an entry for her birth or christening, and her father is assumed to be Isaac Light who was living with her mother.
In the 1861 census as Matilda Light aged 3, born in Southampton, and living with her parents (Esther (male - was this Isaac, the original is nearly illegible) and Anabella Light) and sister (Eliza) at Steplake Lane, Michelmersh, Sherfield English, Hampshire.
In the 1871 census as Matilda Light aged 13, born in Southampton, and living with her parents (Isaac and Anabella), two brothers (Henry and Mark), and three sisters (Eliza, Elizabeth, and Louisa) as gipsies at the side of the turnpike road in caravans in Winterbourne Whitchurch, Dorset.
I cannot find an entry in the 1881 census.
Marriage of Matilda Crutcher and Noah Hughes in FreeBMD in April-June 1889 in Lymington (2b 1103).
In the 1891 census as Matilda Hughes aged 36, and living with her husband (Noah), five sons (Fredk, George, Mark, Nelson and Walter), and two daughters (Amy and Louisa) living in a caravan in West Orchard, Dorset.
In the 1901 census as Matilda Hughes aged 41, born in Shorthampton, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Nash), four sons (Job, Mark, North and Walter), and three daughters (Amy, Eliza and Louisa) in a caravan on Heath Farm Common , Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Matilda Hughes in January-March 1938 aged 82 in Christchurch (2b 1174).
John Couper has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Matilda Crutcher born in 1838 in Southampton, parents Isaac Light and Annabella Croucher, her marriage to Noah Hughes on 1 May 1889 in the Register Office at Lymington, Hampshire when she was living at Pennington, Hampshire, her twelve children, and her death in 1938 at 4 Pound Lane, Christchurch, Hampshire.
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees. One gives her birth in 1858 in Southampton, parents Issac Light and A Crutcher, and her marriage to Noah Hughes in 1889. The other gives her birth in 1858 in Dorset, parents Isaac Light and Annabella Crutcher, her marriage to Noah Hughes (no date or place), a daughter Annabella, and her death in 1938 in Dorset.