Person:James Moles (1)

James Moles was born in 1873 at Hitchin in Hertfordshire and baptised there on 24th December 1873. He was the son of a midwife called Fanny Moles, formerly Worbey, and her husband Thomas Moles, a mole and rat catcher. The family lived at The Riddy, an isolated group of cottages surrounded by fields to the south-east of the town. In the late 1870s the family left The Riddy (which then appears to have been demolished) and moved to the Blackhorse Road area in the parish of St Ippolyts, immediately south of Hitchin. James appears living there at Ippollitts Folly with his parents and siblings in the 1881 census. The family was still in that area at The Common in 1891, by which time James was working as an agricultural labourer.

James's father died in St Ippolyts in 1895.

The following year, James married Mary Ellen Chapman at New Southgate in Middlesex, some thirty miles to the south of Hitchin in the expanding outer suburbs of London. James's older brother George and his family had moved there a few years earlier. James and Mary married on 1st August 1896 at St Paul's Church in New Southgate.

They went on to have six children together between 1898 and 1910, all born in the Southgate area. The 1901 census finds James, Mary and their children living in two rooms at 27 Lower Park Road in Southgate. By 1911 they were living in a four-roomed house at 17 Palmers Road in New Southgate. James worked as a labourer in the building trade.

By the end of the First World War the family had moved to 45 The Avenue, which was just over the border from Southgate into the neighbouring Friern Barnet Urban District. Back in Hitchin, James's mother died in 1922.

James died in the Barnet district (which included Friern Barnet) in 1928, aged 55. Mary survived him by over thirty years.

1.   Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. James MOULES, June Quarter 1873, Hitchin Registration District, Volume 3a, page 320, mother's maiden name Worboy

2. ↑ Baptisms register, in Church of England. Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Hitchin. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of Hitchin in the County of Hertford in the year One thousand eight hundred and Seventy Three
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   938	1873 Dec[ember] 24	James	Thomas & Fanny	Moules	The Riddy	Labourer	W.A. Pope

3. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 1420; Folio 62; Page 8, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: Ippollitts Folly, Ippollitts, Hertfordshire
   Thomas Moules, head, married, male, 42 [1838/9], Agr[icultura]l Lab[oure]r (Mole & Rat Catcher), b. Willian, Hertfordshire
   Fanny Moules, wife, married, female, 39 [1841/2], b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Herbert Moules, son, unmarried, male, 17 [1863/4], Agri[cultural] Lab[oure]r, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   George Moules, son, unmarried, male, 15 [1865/6], Agri[cultural] Lab[oure]r, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   John Moules, son, male, 13 [1867/8], Scholar, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Annie M. Moules, daughter, female, 10 [1870/1], Scholar, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   James Moules, son, male, 8 [1872/3], Scholar, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Ernest Moules, son, male, 5 [1875/6], Scholar, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Julia Moules, daughter, female, 3 [1877/8], Scholar, b. Ippollitts, Hertfordshire

4. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 1108; Folio 71; Page 1, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: The Common, St Ippollitts, Hertfordshire
   5 or more rooms occupied
   Thomas Moles, head, married, male, 56 [1834/5], Agricultural Labourer, employed, b. Willian, Hertfordshire
   Fanny Moles, wife, married, female, 51 [1839/40], b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   John Moles, son, single, male, 22 [1868/8], Agricultural Labourer, employed, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Annie M. Moles, daughter, single, female, 20 [1870/1], General Servant, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   James Moles, son, single, male, 17 [1873/4], Agricultural Labourer, employed, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Ernest Moles, son, single, male, 15 [1875/6], Agricultural Labourer, employed, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Julia Moles, daughter, single, female, 12 [1878/9], Scholar, b. St Ippollitts, Hertfordshire
   Minnie Moles, daughter, single, female, 7 [1883/4], Scholar, b. St Ippollitts, Hertfordshire
   Ellen Moles, granddaughter, female, 4mo [1890/1], b. St Ippollitts, Hertfordshire

5. ↑ England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG13; Piece 1267; Folio 63; Page 14, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: 27 Lower Park Road, Southgate, Middlesex
   2 rooms occupied
   James Moles, head, married, male, 27 [1873/4], General Labourer, worker, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   May Moles, wife, married, female, 26 [1874/5], b. Preston, Lancashire
   Ellen M. Moles, daughter, female, 2 [1898/9], b. New Southgate, Middlesex
   Florence F. Moles, daughter, female, 1 [1899/1900], b. New Southgate, Middlesex

6. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), (formerly the UK General Register Office.))
   Class RG14; Piece 7404; Schedule 8, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 17 Palmers Road, New Southgate, Southgate, Middlesex
   4 rooms occupied
   James Moles, head, male, 36 [1874/5], Labourer - Building, worker, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Mary Moles, wife, female, 35 [1875/6], married 14 years, 6 children born alive, 6 children still living, b. Preston, Lancashire
   Ellen Moles, daughter, female, 12 [1898/9], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Florence Moles, daughter, female, 11 [1899/1900], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Hilda Moles, daughter, female, 10 [1900/1], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Dorothy Moles, daughter, female, 6 [1904/5], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   James Moles, son, male, 5 [1905/6], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Mary Moles, daughter, female, 8 months [1910], b. Southgate, Middlesex

7.   London, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 (London Metropolitan Archives / ancestry.co.uk).

   1918: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, May Ellen
   Moles, James
   Same in 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924
   
   1925: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, May Ellen
   Moles, James
   Perry, Richard
   No change in 1926, 1927, 1928
   
   1930: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, May Ellen
   Moles, James
   Perry, Dorothy Elizabeth
   Perry, Richard
   
   1932: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, James Frederick
   Moles, Mary Ellen
   Moles, Mary Kathleen
   Perry, Dorothy Elizabeth
   Perry, William Richard
   Stephens, Helen May
   Stephens, William Joseph

8. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. James MOLES, December Quarter 1928, Barnet Registration District, Volume 3a, page 442, aged 55 [1872/3]