Emily Simmons

  General Notes:

At age of 13 she was a Stitcher in a Hosiery Factory. At the time of her marriage to Thomas, Emma was a 20 year old Spinster living in Hugglescote, Leicestershire.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 2 Apr 1871, 18 Court Yard, Nottingham Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire. Listed as: Age 3; Occupation - Scholar.

• Census, 3 Apr 1881, Cambridge Street, Loughborough, Leicestershire. Age 13, Stitcher In Hosiery Factory.

• Census, 5 Apr 1891, Mill Row, Hugglescote, Leicestershire. Listed as: Age 23.

• Census, 31 Mar 1901, 56 Main St, Hugglescote, Leicestershire.

• Census, 2 Apr 1911, 25 Forest Road, Hugglescote, Leicestershire. Listed as: Age 43.

Emily married Thomas Deacon, son of Job Deacon and Emma Burton, on 7 Nov 1887 in Registry Office, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.¹² (Thomas Deacon was born on 5 Nov 1859 in Barrow-Upon-Soar, Leicestershire ¹³, christened on 18 May 1863 in St Nicholas's, Fleckney, Leicestershire and died on 23 Apr 1938.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Reside, 7 Nov 1887, Hugglescote, Leicestershire. Both Thomas and Emma were living at Hugglescote at the time of their marriage, the same place where my Grandmother was born 12 years later.

  Marriage Notes:

The marriage was witnessed by: Charles B Wilton and Elizabeth Davenport, the Registrar Thomas Davenport and the Superintendant Registrar George Farmer. Apart from living in Hugglescote at the time of their marriage, the certificate also reveals that Thomas was employed as a Bricklayers Labourer and that his father was at that time a Gamekeeper and Emma's father, Fergus O'connor Simmons is recorded as being a Labourer.