Person:Harriet Moss (2)

Harriet Moss was baptised on 20th April 1828 at Caddington in Bedfordshire, daughter of an agricultural labourer and former soldier named Thomas Moss and his wife Martha Winters. They had married twenty years earlier, yet Harriet was probably the first and only child they actually had together. Thomas had gone to be a soldier in India for most of the previous 20 years, in which time Martha had had three children who were clearly not his biological children. Harriet's baptism is the first sighting of Thomas in Caddington since his marriage in 1808.

Harriet did not live long - she died aged three months and was buried on 6th June 1828.

1. ↑ Baptisms register, in Church of England. Caddington Parish Registers. (Bedford: Bedfordshire Record Office).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of Caddington in the County of Bedford in the Year 1828
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parent's Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   700	April 20	Harriet daughter of	Thomas & Martha	Moss	Brickkiln	Labourer	William Ives, Vicar

2. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Caddington Parish Registers. (Bedford: Bedfordshire Record Office).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Caddington in the County of Bedford in the Year 1828
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   406	Harriet Moss	Brickkiln	June 6	3 months	William Ives, Vicar