Annie Gregory Assistant school mistress and spinster Rectory

Annie Gregory Assistant school mistress and spinster Rectory Lane Cemetery - Education Resources 2021 - Victorian Berkhamsted personalities

Memorial Gertrude, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Gregory, born 15 th April 1869 died 6 th September 1913. Also of Annie Edith, their elder daughter, died 7 th August 1942. Cremated at Golders Green. Robert Gregory of Falkland House, Berkhamsted, born 15 th November 1839 died 7 th April 1916. Elizabeth, wife of Robert Gregory, b. 12 th December 1835 d. 30 th October 1917. Rectory Lane Cemetery - Education Resources 2021 - Victorian Berkhamsted personalities

Annie Gregory There are no photographs or portraits of Annie. Why might this be? Think about the lives of women and of the rich and poor during the Victorian period, how might this have had an impact on the documents and records being kept? Rectory Lane Cemetery - Education Resources 2021 - Victorian Berkhamsted personalities

The Board School Annie attended this school with her sister. It’s no longer in Berkhamsted where was it located? What did they learn here? Why do you think she decided to become a school mistress herself? Rectory Lane Cemetery - Education Resources 2021 - Victorian Berkhamsted personalities

1871 Census What can you learn about Annie and her family from this census entry? Rectory Lane Cemetery - Education Resources 2021 - Victorian Berkhamsted personalities

Census information about Annie The census for 1871 and 1881 confirm that the family was at Rossway (an estate just outside Berkhamsted ) in those years. At the time of the 1881 census Annie (named in the census return as “Edith”) was 13 and Gertrude 11. Both girls attended the Board School in Berkhamsted. Whilst Gertrude is recorded as being at the pub (that her father owned in in St Pancras, London, The Falkland Arms) in 1891 with her parents, Annie is not. On the date of the census she was visiting the home of Anne Hill in Kitsbury Road. Anne Hill, a 62 year old widow, had a lodger staying at her home, Charlie Archer, a 19 year old grocer’s clerk. Edwin Garrett, a 19 year old grocer’s assistant was also visiting. At the time of the census Annie was 23 years old and her occupation is recorded as assistant school mistress. The 1901 and 1911 censuses tell us that Annie was then living with her family in Falkland House in Kings Road. Neither census records any occupation against her name, so presumably she had given up her work as a schoolmistress. Annie was 33 in 1901 and was single. She never married. Rectory Lane Cemetery - Education Resources 2021 - Victorian Berkhamsted personalities

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