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Facts and Events
| Name |
Emma Elizabeth England |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth? |
1839 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Marriage |
1863 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandto Samuel Sprakes |
| Census |
1871 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandBridge St, both age 30, 2 young sons
with Samuel Sprakes |
| Census |
1881 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandChurch St, Samuel age 41, Emma age 40, 5 children at home
with Samuel Sprakes |
| Census |
1891 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandChurch St, Samuel age 49, Emma age 48, 2 children at home
with Samuel Sprakes |
| Census[2] |
1911 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandChurch Lane, Age 72, Widow, Pensioner, with 1 yr old relative and boarder |
| Death[1] |
14 Feb 1921 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandAge 82 |
| Burial[3] |
1921 |
Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandThorne cemetary |
Description by her grandson
The following story about Emma was told in the 1960s by her grandson Arthur Douglas Sprakes to his grandaughter Susan.
He (Samuel Sprakes) married a Stainforth woman by the name of England, she was in service at Lawyer Thorpes’ in South Parade where Hills & Middletons’ live. When she was 14 years old she weighed 16 stone, she liked to go dancing, my grandfather used to go watch her dancing, when they had been married a few days she said Sam, I am going to a dance, he said, not so I do not believe in dancing. But when he died she said "the old Devil - I can go dancing now!"
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References
- ↑ England & Wales deaths 1837-2007
9C,1020, 1921 Q1.
Emma E Sprakes
Birth year - 1839
Age - 82
Death quarter - 1
Death year - 1921
District - THORNE
- ↑ 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census.
CHURCH LANE THORNE
Emma Elizabeth Sprakes, Head, Widow, age 72, b1839 Stainforth, Pensioner Old Age
Ralph SPrakes, Relative, age 1, b1910 Thorne
George Madin, Boarder, Single Male, age 31, b1880 Birkenhead Lane, Foreman Boiler
- ↑ Gravestone in Thorne cemetary
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