Birth: October-December 1856 Hockham, Norfolk, UK
Father: Thomas (William) Willm Adams 1829-1910
Mother: Mary Ann (Anne) Tilbrook c1831-1864
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1890 Hoxne, Suffolk, UK
Husband: Thomas Clement Wells 1859-a1901
Death: After 1901
Unknown
Birth of Matilda Adams in FreeBMD in October-December 1856 in Wayland (4b 254) which included Hockham.
In the 1861 census as Matilda Adams aged 4, born in Hockham, Norfolk, and living with her parents (Thomas W and Mary A) and sister (Emily) in Puddleduck? Lane, Hockham, Norfolk.
Her mother died in 1864 around the time of the birth of Mary Ann, and her father married Emily Bye in 1865.
In the 1871 census as Matilda Adams aged 14, born in Hockham, Norfolk, and living with her father (Thomas), (step)mother (Emily), two sisters (Emily and Mary Ann) and (half)brother (William Joh) in Church Road, Stow Bedon, Norfolk.
In the 1881 census as Matilda Adams aged 24, born in Hockham, single, and a domestic cook living with Daniel Race Godfrey (aged 68, born in Bath, Somerset and rector of Stow Bedon, M A Oxford), his wife (Margarette aged 60 and born in Mildenhall, Wiltshire), son (William Race aged 18 and born in Weston Super Mare, Somerset), two daughters (Ellen Maude aged 15 and born in Stow Bedon, Norfolk, and Mary Florence Godfrey aged 38, born in Bathealton, Somerset, single and a rector's daughter), a pupil (Cecil Legh Daniel aged 15 and born in Aylsham, Norfolk) and a housemaid (Marie Dye aged 21, born in Rockland St Peter, Norfolk and single) at The Rectory, Stow Bedon, Norfolk.
Marriage of Matilda Adams and Thomas Clement Wells in FreeBMD in April-June 1890 in Hoxne (4a 1111).
In the 1891 census as Matilda Wells aged 34, born in Hockham, and living with her husband (Thomas C), (step)son (Thomas) and two (step)daughters (Elsie and Marion) in a cottage in Low Street, Hoxne, Suffolk.
In the 1901 census as Matilda Wells aged 44, born in Hockham, and living with her husband (Thomas C), (step)son (Thomas), (step)daughter (Elsie) and a boarder (James Albert Canham aged 18, born in Thorndon, Suffolk, single and a ?) in Low Street, Hoxne, Suffolk.
Hockham is Great Hockham, a mile south of Stow Bedon, both on A1075, 25 miles WSW of Norwich. Hoxne is just in Suffolk, 20 miles SE of Stow Bedon on B1118.
Matilda Adams was my second cousin twice removed.
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