Margaret Ellen Moore [Lower] (1888-1950)


Dates

Birth: January-March 1888 Seaford, Sussex, UK
Father: Jonathan Moore 1854-1924
Mother: Harriet Collingham 1848-1920

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: July-September 1912 Newhaven, Sussex, UK
Husband: John William (William John) Lower 1884-1941

Death: January-March 1950 SE Surrey, UK

Children

Ronald John Lower 1913-1999
Ethel Joan Lower [Sawyer] 1916-2009

Notes

Birth of Margaret Ellen Moore in FreeBMD in January-March 1888 in Eastbourne (2b 80).

In the 1891 census as Margt Ellen Moore aged 3, born in Seaford, Sussex, and living with her parents (Jonathan and Harriett), three brothers (David T, John and William), and three sisters (Esther, Eunice and Harriet) in Montrose Cottage, High Street, Seaford, Sussex.

In the 1901 census as Margaret E Moore aged 13, born in Seaford, Sussex, and living with her parents (Jonathan and Harriett), two brothers (David T and William), three sisters (Ennice, Esther and Mabel C) and a visitor (Madeline Cooke aged 50, born in Black Heath, Kent, single and living on her own means) at North Sutton Farm, Seaford, Sussex.

In the 1911 census as Margret Ellen Moore aged 23, and living with John Moore (brother?), Louise (sister -in-law?) and Charles and John King (nephews?) in Eastbourne, Sussex.

Marriage of Margaret E Moore and John W Lower in FreeBMD in July-September 1912 in Newhaven (2b 461).

Her son and daughter were born in Croydon in 1913 and 1916.

Her husband died in Croydon in 1941.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for Margaret E Lower in January-March 1950 aged 62 in Surrey SE (59 875).

There are two entries in Ancestry British Phone Books 1880-1984 for M E Lower address 43 Selwood Road, Croydon, number ADDscombe 2808 in 1942 and 1947, and another for Mrs M E Lower address 151 Cheston Avenue, Shirley, Coydon, number SPRingpark 6056 in 1949.

Relationship

Margaret Ellen Moore was the wife of John William Lower, fourth cousin once removed of Cyril T Larby, my half second cousin once removed.

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