Birth: 3 October 1883 London, UK
Father: James Hawes 1850-1907
Mother: Rebecca Page or Rebecca Tutin 1850-1900
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 26 December 1913 St Peter, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey, UK
Husband: John Robert Cole 1888-1960
Death: 5 August 1966 Alton General Hospital, Alton, Hampshire, UK
Frederick James Edgar Cole 1915-1882
John Albert Sidney (Sydney) Cole 1917-2009
George Edward Cole 1919-1995
Eric Frank Cole 1921-1998
Florence Ellen Cole [Duff] 1923-a1959
I cannot find an entry in the Register of Births in 1883, and none in 1882 or 1884 match the census entries. None in Clerkenwell and only Florence Alice in St Saviour in April-June 1882. However there is an entry for Florence Hawes in April-June 1884 in Shoreditch (1c 85) which is where her mother was born.
In the 1891 census as Florence Hawes aged 6, born in Southwark, London and living wither parents (James and Rebecca), three brothers (Albert E, James, and John L) and sister (Rebecca) in three rooms at at 24 Block A Streets Building, St Saviour, Southwark, London.
Her mother died in 1900.
In the 1901 census as Florence Hawes aged 19 in the index, 17 on the original, born in Clerkenwell, London, single, no stated employment, and living with her widowed father (James), three brothers (Albert, James and John Thomas) and sister (Rebecca) in four rooms at 28 Emerson Street, St Saviour, Southwark, London (this address was shared with another family).
Her father died in 1907 and I cannot find an entry for her in the 1911 census.
Marriage of Florence Hawes and John R Cole in FreeBMD in October-December 1913 in Farnham (2a 282).
All the children were born in Farnham between 1915 and 1923 except for John in 1917 in Wandsworth.
Her husband died in 1960.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Florence Cole in July-September 1966 aged 82 in Alton (6b 39). On her certificate of Death on 5 August 1966 at Alton General Hospital her address is given as Glenesk, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Hants, widow of John Robert Cole, retired builder and bricklayer, the death being registered by her daughter F E Duff of 17 Woodfield, Kingsley, Bordon on 18 August 1966.
There was an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Florence Hawes born in 3 October 1883 (but I cannot find an entry in the Register of Births to confirm this) in Clerkenwell, London, parents James Hawes and Rebecca Page, her marriage to John Robert Cole on 26 December 1913 at St Peter, Wrecclesham, Surrey, her five children, her employment as a Fray Bentos factory worker, and her death on 10 August 1966. There are now several entries giving her mother as Rebecca Tutin. A James Hawes married a Rebecca Page in Pancras in July-September 1875 and a Rebecca Tutin on 25 December 1876 at St Andrew by the Wardrobe in the the parish of St Ann Blackfriars. Both Rebeccas were born in Shoreditch in 1850. The Ancestry entries give the date of the marriage as 25 December 1876, but the location as St Pancras.
Florence Hawes was the wife of John Robert Cole, son of of Mary Jane Store, wife of Abraham Shrubb, my second cousin twice removed.
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