| Description | DOB: 25th May 1848
DOD: 1922, aged 73
Family of Four, the eldest a girl, 9 years old at the time, she was disabled. The next, a boy between 6 and 7, Lucy between 3 and 4. And the youngest a baby boy.
Lucy's father was an experienced bricklayer by trade, but was a drunkard and left his wife and family to face poverty.
Her mother applied to the parish, who advised her to go to the workhouse and find her husband.
The parish supplied her with clothes, cotton dresses. old fashioned lilac print capes like dresses in the summer; and shawls in the winter, strong petticoats and thick; big coal-scuttle bonnets, with a piece of ribbon straight across them.
Lived with Mrs. H, until 13 years of age. When Mr. J came to take Lucy to St. Albans, to service for the following week. the place of service was a public-house.
Her mistress would spend her earnings in getting more clothes for Lucy, and provide a box to keep them in. After 12 months, they could not afford Lucy anymore, so she had to make another shift.
Lucy's mother had passed away aroun this time, when she was 15 years of age.
Christian
Married
7 Children
Lucy had one big doll to play with, left by her sister when she had died.
Always went to the Abbey on Sunday morning, once she moved to the public-house.
Worked in the silk-mills, tayloring, straw work, a servant and shop work.
Her husband went as a ploughman to a farmer in the Dunstable road, near Luton. They had to live in a cottage belonging to the farm; there were four ivy-covered cottages standing by the side of the road for the workmen.
The London Mercury, Vol.XIII. 1925 - 1926.
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