Harriet Emma Pratt [Titmuss (Titmas, Titmus)] (1850-1939)


Dates

Birth: 10 May 1850 St Mary the Virgin, Pirton, Hertfordshire, UK
Father: William Pratt 1804-1888
Mother: Elizabeth Gray [Worsley (Horsley)] 1809-1888

Christening: 23 May 1850 Pirton, Hertfordshire, UK

Marriage: 2 November 1870 St Mary the Virgin, Pirton, Hertfordshire, UK
Husband: Albert John Titmuss (Titmas, Titmus) 1850-1932

Death: October-December 1939 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK

Children

Frederick John Titmuss 1871-1873
Alice Marie Titmuss (Titmus) [Lester] 1873-1958
Elizabeth Titmuss 1876-1876
Joseph Charles Titmuss 1879-1894
Kate Titmuss 1881-1959
Ida Titmuss 1884-1971
Lizzie Titmuss [Primett] 1888-1973
One unidentified child died before 1911

Notes

Birth of Emma Pratt in FreeBMD in April-June 1850 in Hitchen (6 585).

Christening of Harriet Pratt in the IGI on 23 May 1850 in Pirton, Hertfordshire, parents William and Elizabeth Pratt. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 and England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906.

In the 1851 census as Harriot (sic - in the index, Harriet on the orginal) Pratt aged 10 months, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire, and living with her parents (William and Elizabeth), two sisters (Elizabeth and Sarah),and two half-sisters (Eliza and Mary A Worsley) at the Great Green, Pirton, Hertfordshire.

In the 1861 census as Harriet Pratt aged 10, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire, and living with her married mother (Elizabeth) and two sisters (Alice and Sarah) in Pirton, Hertfordshire. Her father was listed as a pauper in the Union Workhouse Layston.

Marriage of Harriett Pratt and Albert Titmas (sic - on the typed original) in FreeBMD in October-December 1870 in Hitchin (3A 411).

Marriage of Harriett Pratt aged 20, father William Pratt, and Albert Titmus aged 20, father Samuel Titmus in the IGI in 1870 in Pirton, Hertfordshire.

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for Harriet Pratt aged 20, father William Pratt, and Albert Titmus aged 20, in 1870 in Pirton, Herts.

Entry in Ancestry England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940 for Harriet Pratt aged 20, father William Pratt, and Albert Titmus aged 20, father Samuel Titmus on 2 November 1870 in Pirton, Hertfordshire.

In the 1871 census as Harriet Titmas (sic - on the original) aged 20, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire, and living with her husband (Albert) in Bramfield Village, Hertfordshire.

In the 1881 census as Harriet Titmuss aged 30, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire, and living with her husband (Albert), son (Joseph C) and daughter (Alice M) in Baldock Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

In the 1891 census as Harrie W Lisherness (sic - in the index, Harriet Titmuss on the original) aged 40, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire, and living with her husband (Albert), son (Charles), and three daughters (Alice M, Elizabeth, Kate and Ida), and a visitor (Lane (Jane) Stapleton aged 17, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire and no stated employment) in Orchard Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

In the 1901 census as Harriet Titmuss aged 50, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire, and living with her husband (Albert) and two daughters (Ida and Lizzie) at Foxholes Lodge, Hitchin St Mary, Herfordshire.

In the 1911 census as Harriet Titmuss aged 60, born in Pirton, Hertfordshire, married for 40 years with eight children, four of whom had died, and living with her husband (Albert) and two daughters (Kate and Lizzie) in five rooms at The Foxholes Lodge, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

In the 1921 census as Harriett Titmuss born in Pirton, Herefordshire (sic) and living with Albert Titmuss (husband?) in Hitchin Urban, Hertfordshire.

Her husband died on 7 January 1932 at 63 Old Park Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire and left effects of £259 3s 5d. to Harriet Titmuss (widow) and Alice Maria Lester (wife of Harry Lester).

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Harriet E Titmuss born 10 May 1850, widowed, incapacitated, and living with Kate Titmuss (daughter?) at 63 Old Park Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Death of Harriet E Titmuss in FreeBMD in October-December 1939 aged 89 in Hitchin (3a 1553).

There are forty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Harriet Emma Pratt.

Entry in Geneanet Community Trees Index for Harriet Pratt.

Relationship

Harriet Emma Pratt was the mother of Alice Marie Titmuss, wife of Harry Lester, my half second cousin once removed.

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