Harriet (Harriett) Catherine Adams [Davis] (1874-1959)


Dates

Birth: April 1874 Boarhunt, Hampshire, UK
Father: Andrew Adams 1831-1877
Mother: Catherine Atkins 1832-1916

Christening: 26 April 1874 Southwick, Hampshire, UK

Marriage: January-March 1902 Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Thomas Alfred Davis 1875-1953

Death: July-September 1959 Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK

Children

William Thomas Davis 1903
Francis Alfred Davis 1907-1965
Catherine Ivy Davis 1909
George Henry Davis 1913
Frederick C Davis 1916
Elsie M Davis 1923

Notes

Birth of Harriet Catherine Adams in FreeBMD in April-June 1874 in Fareham (2b 521).

Entry in Ancestry England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 for Harriett Catherine Adams on 26 April 1874 in Southwick, parents Andrew and Catherine Adams.

Her father died in Fareham in 1877.

In the 1881 census as Harriet Adams aged 7, born in Boarhunt, Hampshire, and living with her widowed mother (Catherine), five brothers (Alfred, Geo, Thos H, Walter and Wm), and sister (Emily) at Lodge Cottage, Boarhunt, Hampshire.

I cannot find her in the 1891 or 1901 censuses.

Marriage of Harriett Catherine Adams and Thomas Alfred Davis in FreeBMD in January-March 1902 in Portsmouth (2b 782).

In the 1911 census as Harriet Catherine Davis aged 37, born in Southwick, Hampshire, married for 9 years with three children, all living, and living with her husband (Thomas Alfred), two sons (Francis Alfred and William Thomas) and a daughter (Catherine Ivy) in six rooms at 39 Hereford Street, Landport, Hants.

Her first son was born in Portsmouth in 1903, second in Wickmam in 1907, and daughter in Portsmouth in 1909.

Her two sons and daughter were born in Portsmouth in 1913 to 1923.

Her husband died in Portsmouth in 1953.

Death of Harriet C Davis in FreeBMD in July-September 1959 aged 85 in Portsmouth (6b 434).

Shirley A Harrison has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Harriet Adams born in Boarhunt, Hampshire in 1874, mother Catherine. There are three other entries for Harriet Catherine Adams born in Southwick, Hampshire in 1873 or Fareham, Hampshire in 1874, married to Thomas Alfred Davis in Portsmouth in 1902, her first three children and her death in Portsmouth in 1959. There is also an entry for Harriett Catherine Adams born in Boarhunt, Hampshire in 1874, parents Andrew Adams and Catherine [Kitty] Atkins (Adams).

Relationship

Harriet Catherine Adams was the second cousin once removed of Mary Ann Carpenter Adams, wife of Edward Fullick, my first cousin four times removed.

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