Birth: July-September 1872 Banham, Norfolk, UK
Father: William Adams 1839-1877
Mother: Mary Mallows 1841-1926
Christening: 11 October 1874 Banham, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: January-March 1892 Guiltcross, Norfolk, UK
Husband: John Westhorpe 1865-1938
Death: January-March 1955 Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK
Ernest John Westhorpe 1892-a1911
Bertie William Westhorpe 1895-1917
Percy Westhorpe 1898-1902
Winifred May Westhorpe 1901-1968
Horace Edwin Westhorpe 1905-1925
Birth of Emma Jane Adams in FreeBMD in July-September 1872 in Guiltcross (4b 224).
Christening of Emma Jane Adams in the IGI on 11 October 1874 in Banham, Norfolk, parents William and Mary Adams (her younger sister Adelaida Mary was christened on the same day). The same information is in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 results for Emma Jane Adams.
Entry in Ancestry All Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941 for Emma Jane Adams baptised on 11 October 1874 in Banham, Norfolk, parents William and Mary Adams. "Page [blank] Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Banham in the County of Norfolk in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and seventy four [...] 1874 Oct 11 Np. 457 Emma Jane, parents William, a Drillman, and Mary Adams of Banham".
Her father died in 1877.
In the 1881 census as Emma J Adams aged 8, born in Banham, Norfolk, and living with her widowed mother (Mary), four sisters (Adelaide M, Anna S, Jemima S and Lucy) and her widowed grandfather (James Mallows) at Hardwick Green, Banham, Norfolk (The Old Chequers is written very faintly).
In the 1891 census as Emma Adams aged 19, born in Norfolk, single, and general domestic servant living with Amy Cakebread (aged 42, born in London and a widow living on her own means), her two daughters (Amy aged 16 and born in London, and Constance aged 9 and born in Tottenham), and a visitor (Janet Kiho aged 57, single and living on her own means) at 1 Balmoral Villas, Northumberland Park, Tottenham, Middlesex.
Marriage of Emma Jane Adams and John Westhorpe in FreeBMD in January-March 1892 in Guiltcross (4b 369).
The first two sons were born in New Buckenham, Norfolk, but Percy was born at Bostern Grange so the family moved between 1895 and 1898.
In the 1901 census as Emma J Westhorpe aged 28, born in Beenham, Norfolk, and living with her husband (John), and three sons (Bertie Wm, Ernest John and Percy) at Bostern Grange, Newton Grange, Derbyshire.
Her daughter and son were born in Lissington in 1901 and 1905.
In the 1911 census as Emma Westhorpe aged 39, born in Barnham, Norfolk, married for 19 years with five children, one having died, and living with her son (Horace) and daughter (May) in five rooms at 114 Mayfield Road Ashbourne.
Death of Emma J Westhorpe in FreeBMD in January-March 1955 aged 82 in Ashbourne (3a 9).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Emma J Adams born in Banham, Norfolk in 1873, father William Adams. There is also an entry for Emma J Westhorpe born in Beenham, Norfolk in 1873, married to John Westthorpe, her five children, and her death in Ashbourne, Derbyshire in March 1955.
Banham is 18 miles SW of Norwich. Bostern Grange Farm is just west of the A515, a mile NW of Tissington and north of Ashbourne.
Emma Jane Adams was my third cousin once removed.
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