Sarah, Emma and Anne Hooper

Sarah (1835-1914)

Emma (1839-

Anne (1832-

In the 1840s, Richard and Deborah (nee Moore) Hooper lived at Millend, in plot number 767 and 768. The property was rented from the estate of Elizabeth Millard Hooper, administered by Robert Mason, as she was still an infant.

Richard was employed as a labourer and they had four daughters were living at home. A son, William, was born in 1845, and three other children had been born previously and were not living at home. All were baptised at St Martins.

Ten years later, they were still living in Millend. Deborah and Anne were both charwomen, while Sarah was employed as a wool feeder. Emma was visiting Ann Nicholls in Cam.

Deborah died in 1852 and, in ’61, Richard was living with Sarah and Emma, who were, respectively, a wool spinner and a wool picker.

Anne can’t be found after the ’51 Census.

In 1861, Sarah married George Hibberd, a woollen weaver. At the time of the ’71 Census the souple were living with 5 of the children (2 more were born that decade) in Twerton, Somerset.

Sarah was widowed in 1893, and was living, alone, in Twerton at the time of the ’01 and ’11 census’. She died in 1914, aged 79.

In June 1869, it was reported in the Stroud News and Gloucestershire Advertiser that Henry Taylor and Emma Hooper married in Wotton under Edge.

In May of the following year, the couple baptised two sons at Cairncross church, Stroud and, in 1871, Emma and Henry were living at Randwick with one of their sons.

Emma died, aged 39, in 1879, and was buried at Prestbury churchyard.

In the 1881 Census, Henry is living with Jane Taylor, his second wife, though no marriage can be found, at Rodborough. With them is one of Henry and Emma’s sons, Alfred Edward.