Harriet Ann Edmunds

Harriet Ann Edmunds was born in 1853. Her parents were John & Jane Edmunds and they had her baptised in Boscombe parish church on the fifteenth of May 1853. Harriet married William Nicklen in 1882. She died in the first quarter of 1944, aged 90 years.

Who was Harriet Ann Edmunds?

Harriet was my Great Grand Mother (via my father, Robert Percy Edmunds and his father / Harriet's son, Herbert William Edmunds)

What work did she do?

Harriet worked in domestic service.

What children did she have?

Herbert William Edmunds
Born 1880 Boscombe, Wiltshire
Baptised twenty fifth April 1880 at Boscombe Parish Church (parish records have the note "base born").

Alice May Nicklen 
Born 1883 

William Nicklen 
Born 1886

Henry Nicklen
Born 1888

Edward Nicklen
Born 1890

Charles Edgar Nicklen
Born 1893

Anna Maria Nicklen
Born 1898

Where did Harriet live?

Harriet grew up in Boscombe, Wiltshire. Later, after her marriage she lived in Fordingbridge, Hants.

What else do we know about Harriet?

In the 1871 Census, when she was 17 years, she is a servant at the Rectory in the parish of Boscombe, in the district of Amesbury, Winterbourne. (The Head of the House was Thomas Taylor who was then 70 and from Lancashire). This was 9 years before my grand father, Herbert William Edmunds, was born. 

In the 1881 Census, now aged 27, Harriet is one of three servants, a Lady's Maid, at Monckton House, Alverstoke, Hants, the home of private banker and magistrate William Grant and family. (There is no mention of her young son Herbert). 

In 1882, on the 29th of May, Harriet (aged 29) married William Nicklen (aged 37) in Boscombe, Amesbury, Wilts. (The parish record gives Harriet's father as John Edmunds & William's as James Nicklen - both labourers). The witnesses were Arthur Edmunds, Fanny Nicklen, Edith Muspratt and William Edmunds. The presiding priest was T Taylor).

In the 1891 census Harriet & William with Herbert and children of their marriage were living in Upper Street, Fordingbridge, Hants. William is described as a "General Labourer". 

In the 1911 census the couple are still living in Upper Street with two of their children, but not Herbert Edmunds. 

Harriet Nicken (nee Edmunds)