Person:Minnie Moles (1)

Minnie Moles (or Moules) was born in 1883 at St Ippolyts in Hertfordshire, the youngest daughter of a midwife named Fanny Moles, formerly Worbey, and her husband Thomas Moles, a mole and rat catcher. The family lived right on the border of the parishes of St Ippolyts and Hitchin, and Minnie was baptised at St Mary's Church in Hitchin on 9th January 1884. The 1891 census finds Minnie living with her parents and siblings at The Common in St Ippolyts, which appears to have been in the vicinity of the modern road The Paddock, off Blackhorse Lane. Minnie's father Thomas died in 1895, when Minnie was about eight years old.

By 1901, Minnnie had left the Hitchin area and was working as a domestic servant at Southgate in Middlesex, in the rapidly expanding northern suburbs of London.

The following year, Minnie married Charles Archer. For the first few years after their marriage they lived in the Bowes Park area of Wood Green. They had a daughter called Elsie May in 1903 and a son called Charles Leslie in 1907. The 1911 census finds Charles, Minnie and their children living at 58 Marlborough Road in Wood Green. Charles was working as a photographer by this time.

After the First World War the family lived at 13A Northbrook Road, just round the corner from Marlborough Road, where they lived from at least 1919 to 1928. Back in Hitchin, Minnie's mother died in 1922.

Around 1929 the family moved about a mile to 19 Chimes Avenue in Southgate, where they were living in both 1930 and 1931. Minnie's daughter married in 1929.

Some time between 1931 and 1939 the family moved to 13 Ridgeway Avenue at East Barnet in Hertfordshire, which was to be Minnie's last home. She died on 11th June 1939 at the Wellhouse Hospital in Barnet (later renamed Barnet General Hospital). She was 55 years old. Charles survived her by about twelve years.

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

   b. Minnie MOLES, December Quarter 1883, Hitchin Registration District, Volume 3a, page 435, mother's maiden name Worbey

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 Eighty four
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   2291	1884 Jan[uar]y 9	Minnie	Thomas & Fanny	Moles	Black Horse Lane	Labourer	R.C.U. Kelly

3. ↑ 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, grand daughter, female, 4mo [1890/1], b. St Ippollitts, Hertfordshire

4. ↑ 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 1269; Folio 23; Page 4, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: Pembroke Lodge, Green Dragon Lane, Southgate, Middlesex
   William Henry Green, head, married, male, 33 [1867/8], Manager Furtniture Business, worker, b. Ealing, Middlesex
   Beatrice Green, wife, married, female, 33 [1867/8], b. Camden Town, Middlesex
   Minnie Moles, servant, single, female, 18 [1882/3], Domestic, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire

5. ↑ 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 7596; Schedule 214, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 58 Marlborough Road, Wood Green, Middlesex
   Charles Archer, head, married, male, 35 [1875/6], Photographer, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
   Minnie Archer, wife, married 8 years, female, 27 [1883/4], b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Elsie May Archer, daughter, female, 7 [1903/4], b. Bowes Park, Middlesex
   Charles Leslie Archer, son, male, 4 [1906/7], b. Bowes Park, Middlesex

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

   d. Minnie ARCHER, June Quarter 1939, Barnet Registration District, Volume 3a, page 641, aged 55 [1883/4]

7. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

   1942
   ARCHER Minnie of 13 Ridgeway-avenue East Barnet Hertfordshire (wife of Charles Archer) died 11 June 1939 at 17 Wellhouse-lane Barnet Hertfordshire Administration Llandudno 10 August to the said Charles Archer retired photographic apparatus manufacturer. Effects £82 3s. 3d.