Birth: January-March 1860 High Bridge, Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Richard Abbey 1825-1897
Mother: Sarah Fairbank c1825-1883
Christening: 6 April 1860 St John the Baptist, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: January-March 1948 Wharfedale, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
None known
Birth of Emma Abbey in FreeBMD in January-March 1860 in Knaresbro (9A 100).
Entry in Ancestry North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 for Emma Abbey baptised 6 April 1860 at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough, parents Richard and Sarah Abbey. "Page 38 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Knaresborough in the County of York in the Year 1860 [...] April 6th No. 300 Emma [parents] Richard [a] Joiner and Sarah Abbey [of] High Bridge".
In the 1861 census as Emma Abbey aged 1, born in Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (Richard and Sarah A), three brothers (Fairbauk, Fredrick and William Fairbauk), sister (Hannah) and a visitor (Anne Harrison aged 64, born in Huslwaite, Yorkshire, single and no stated employment) at Long Walk Cottage, Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire.
Her brother was registered in October-December 1864 in Knaresborough, and baptised on 4 November 1864 at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough when they were living in High Bridge.
In the 1871 census as Emma Abbey aged 11, born in Scriven, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (Richard and Sarah), four brothers (Fairbank, Fredrick, John Fairbank and William Fairbank) and sister (Anne) at Long Walk Cottage, Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire.
In the 1881 census as Emma Abbey aged 21, born in Knaresbro, Yorkshire, single, no stated employment, and living with her parents (Richard and Sarah), two brothers (Frederick and John F) and sister (Anne) at High Bridge, Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire. (A note says it was transfered to Knaresborough.)
Her mother was buried 8 June 1883 at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough.
In the 1891 census as Emma Abbey aged 31, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, single, no stated employment and living with her widowed father (Richard) and sister (Annie ) at High Bridge, Knaresborough, Yorkshire. (A note states it was formerly a detached portion of Scriven-w-Tentergate.)
Her father died on 5 March 1897 in High Bridge, Knaresborough, and left effects of £177 1s. to Emma Abbey Spinster.
In the 1901 census as Emma Abbey aged 41, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, single, and a skirt seamstress working on her own account at home, and boarding with Annie Topham (aged 31, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, single and a lodging house keeper), and her nephew (Albert Topham aged 18, born in Ripon, Yorkshire, single and a carter at a wine warehouse) in three rooms in Church Lane, Knaresborough, Yorkshire).
I cannot locate her in the 1911 census or in the 1921 census.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Emma Abbey born in 1860, single, and a mental patient at the West Riding Mental Hospital, Aireborough, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Death of Emma Abbey in FreeBMD in January-March 1948 aged 88 in Wharfedale (2D 723) which included Aireborough.
There are forty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Emma Abbey.
High Bridge is where the A59 crosses the River Nidd at the southern edge of a detached portion of Scriven.
Emma Abbey was the first cousin of Thomas Abbey, husband of Ruth Cross, first cousin once removed of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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