Birth: 1820 Shelfield, Staffordshire, UK
Father: William Glover b1795-1849
Mother: Mary Lowe 1787-1839
Christening: 22 May 1820 St Michael, Rushall, Staffordshire, UK
Marriage: 27 May 1844 Rushall, Staffordshire, UK
Husband: John Lester 1821-1910
Death: 10 January 1903 Greenwich, London, UK
Buried: 16 January 1903 Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, Greater London, UK
John Lester 1845-1912
Mary Lester [Luff] 1847-1928
Edward Lester 1849
Thomas Lester 1851
William Henry Lester 1853
George Frederick Lester 1856
Harriet Ann Lester 1859-1920
Adopted son
Tom Arthur Winter c1861-1948
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Harriet Glover baptised in 1820 in Mavesyn-Ridware, Stafford, parents William Glover and Mary Lowe. Note that Mavesyn Ridware is some 13 miles further north than Shelfield and Rushall.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for Harriet Glover baptised on 22 May 1820 in Mavesyn-Ridware, Staffordshire, parents William Glover and Mary Lowe.
Entry in Ancestry Staffordshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1900 for Harriet Glover baptised on 22 May 1820 at Rushall St Michael, parents William Glover and Mary Lowe. "Page 17 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Rushall in the County of Stafford in the Year 1820 [...] May 22nd No. 133 Harriet [parents] William Glover [a] Labourer] & Mary late Lowe [of] Shelfield.
In the 1841 census as Harriet Glover aged 20 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Staffordshire, and living with John Harlow aged 20, Thomas James aged 15 and Thomas Bryan aged 14, all born in Staffordshire, occupations illegible, in Bul Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
Marriage of Harriet Glover and John Lester in FreeBMD in April-June 1844 in Walsall (17 251).
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Harriet Glover, father William Glover, and John Lester in 1844 in Rushall, Stafford and for Harriet Glover and John Lester on 27 May 1844 in Rushall, Stafford.
Entry in Ancestry Staffordshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1900 for the marriage of Harriet Glover, father William Glover, and John Lester on 27 May 1844 at Rushall, St Michael.
Her son was born in Tipton, Staffordshire in 1845, and daughter and son in Birmingham in 1847 and 1849.
In the 1851 census as Harriett Lester aged 31, born in Walsall, Staffordshire, and living with her husband (John), two sons (Edward and John) and daughter (Mary) in Reynolds Street, Harborne, Staffordshire.
Her son was born in Smethwick in 1851 and baptised at the Methodist-Wesleyan Chapel, Smethwick later that year, another son in Oldbury in 1853, and son and daughter in Sydenham in 1856 and 1859.
In the 1861 census as Harriet Lester aged 40, born in Walsall, Staffordshire, and living with her husband (John), five sons (Edward, George, John, Thomas, and William H), two daughters (Harriet and Mary), a boarder (Tom A Winter aged 7 months and born in Sydenham, Kent), and a visitor (Esther Stanley aged 33, born in Alcester, Warwickshire and a cook in a gentlemans home) at 8 Hanover Street, Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent.
In the 1871 census as Harriet Lester aged 50, born in Walsall, Staffordshire, and living with her husband (John), three sons (Edward, Thomas and William H), and an adopted son (Tom A Winter) at 8 Hanover Street, Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent.
In the 1881 census as Harriet A Lester aged 61, born in Wallsall, Staffordshire, and living with her husband (John), daughter (Harriet A), (adopted)son (Arthur), a visitor (Eliza Beck aged 30, born in Norwich, Norfolk, single and an unemployed housekeeper), and a boarder (John Smith aged 64, born in Greenwich, Kent, widowed and a retired grocer) at 11 Amersham Grove, Deptford St Paul, London.
In the 1891 census as Harriet Lester aged 71, born in Wallsal (sic - on the original), Staffordshire, and living with her husband (John) in three rooms at 11 Amersham Grove, Deptford St Paul, London. Another family shared the same address.
In the 1901 census as Harriett A Lester aged 81, born in Wallsend, Staffordshire, and living with her husband (John) in two rooms at 11 Amersham Grove, Deptford St Paul, London. Another family shared the same address.
Death of Harriett Ann Lester in FreeBMD in January-March 1903 aged 82 in Greenwich (1D 589).
Entry in Deceased Online for Harriett Ann Lester buried on 16 January 1903 in Lewisham, London.
Entry in FindaGrave For JHarriett Ann Lester born 1820, died 10 January 1903 and buried in Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, Lewisham, Greater London,
Entry in North West Kent Family History Society Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions for Harriett Ann Lester 8450 " Harriett Ann Lester 1903 83 Mother, John Lester 1910 87 Father, Harriett Ann Lester 1920 60 Daughter, May Lily Atkins 1928 16m Granddaughter, Frank Trew 1940 78 Husband, Eliza Harriett Trew 1964 76 Wife".
There are twenty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Harriet Ann Glover.
Entry in Geneanet for Harriet Glover.
Shelfield is 3 miles north of Walsall and Rushall is midway between them.,
Harriet Ann Glover was the mother of John Lester, husband of Ann Luff, and of Mary Lester, wife of James Luff, both my half first cousins twice removed.
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