Birth: 1860 Pitch Place, Elstead, Surrey, UK
Father: Thomas Luff 1812-1887
Mother: Ann (Anne) Croucher 1817-1890
Marriage: October-December 1884 Hambledon, Surrey, UK
Husband: John Frederic (Frederick) Wilkins 1858-a1901
Death: January-March 1902 Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
Leonard William Wilkins 1886-a1891
Herbert Thomas Wilkins 1888-a1901
Winifred Lydia Wilkins 1890-a1901
Birth of Kate Luff in FreeBMD in April-June 1860 in Hambledon (2a 99) which included Elstead.
Christening of Kate Luff in the IGI on 27 May 1860 in Thursley, Surrey, parents Thomas and Ann Luff. Although Pitch Place was in Elstead, Thursley Church was much nearer.
In the 1861 census as Kate Luff aged 1, born in Elstead, and living with her parents (Thomas and Ann), six brothers (Alfred, Charles, Edwin, Henry, James and Thomas) and sister (Sarah) at Pitch Place, Elstead. This address was shared with another family.
In the 1871 census as Kate Luff aged 11, born in Elstead, and living with her parents (Thomas and Ann, but no relationship given in the census), two brothers (Alfred and Edwin), and sister (Amy) at Pitch Place, Elstead, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Kate Luff aged 21, born in Elstead, single, no stated employment, and visiting John New, his wife Mary (Kate's sister), their daughter Amy and a lodger (William P. Bantin aged 53, born in India, a widower and a landscape painter) at Wheeler Street, Witley, Surrey.
Marriage of Kate Luff and John Frederick Wilkins in FreeBMD in October-December 1884 in Hambledon (2a 219).
The three children were born in Bretford so the family moved there prior to 1886.
In the 1891 census as Kate Wilkins aged 31, born in Elstead, Surrey, and living with her husband (John F), two sons (Herbert I and Leonard W ) and daughter (Winifred) in 3 rooms in Brandon and Bretford, Warwickshire.
In the 1901 census as Kate Wilkins aged 41, born in Thursley, Surrey, married, and visiting with John C New, his wife (Mary - Kate's sister), and a boarder (Charles E Wilson aged 45, born in Whitwell, Northamptonshire, single and employed as an artist (painter) working from home) at Wheeler Steet, Witley. Her husband was living on his own in the High Street, Brinklow, Warwickshire, and her daughter was two doors away from him with her granduncle. Her son Herbert was visiting Edwin and Mary Luff (his uncle and aunt), and family in Ladycross Road, Witley, Surrey.
Death of Kate Wilkins in FreeBMD in January-March 1902 aged 41 in Rugby (6d 361).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Kate Luff born in 1860 in Elstead, Surrey, parents Thomas Luff and Ann Croucher, and the 1861-1881 census entries.
Bretford is 4 miles west of Rugby on A428, and Brinklow is 1 mile north of Bretford on B4455.
Kate Luff was my half first cousin twice removed.
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