My Great x3 Aunt Jessie (1864 - 1947) was a milliner, housewife, mother of six, and a younger sister of my Great Great Grandmother Bessie Staddon Edworthy (nee Nott) (1859 - 1919).
Jessie was born on 1st April 1864 in Morchard Bishop, Devon, to William Nott, an agricultural labourer, and Grace Nott (nee Cobley) (about 36), a wool weaver.
Like a few of her siblings, Jessie's birth doesn't seem to have been registered; however, she was baptised on 29th June 1864, in Morchard Bishop, though seemingly without the middle name of Rose, which is recorded as having as a teenager on the 1881 Census.
Jessie was the eighth of nine children (four sons and five daughters):
- William 1850 - after 1861
- John Henry 1852 - after 1861
- Frederick 1853 - 1927 (74)
- Mary Emma 1855 - after 1871
- Eliza Lydia 1856 - 1869 (12)
- Bessie Staddon 1859 - 1919 (about 60)
- Walter 1860 - 1916 (55)
- Jessie Rose 1864 - 1947 (83)
- Agnes 1866 - 1924 (57)
In the winter of 1869, when Jessie was five, her older sister Eliza passed away, aged twelve.
Jessie grew up in Southcott Cottage, in Morchard Bishop.
1871 Census:
As a young woman, Jessie worked as a milliner.
1881 Census:
In Jul/Aug/Sep 1888, Jessie (24) married Simon John N West (22), a farrier and horse keeper, in the district of Torrington, Devon
Jessie and Simon had six daughters:
- Ethel Maria 1890
- Ida Mary 1891 - 1891 (5 weeks old)
- Mabel Elizabeth 1893
- Minnie Kathleen 1895
- Clara Hilda M 1898 - 1899 (1 year old)
- Doris Gwendoline 1902
Sadly, Jessie and Simon's second daughter Ida passed away, aged only five weeks old, in Winkleigh. She was buried on 31st July 1891 in Winkleigh. And their fifth daughter Clara passed away, at one year old, in Cardiff, in Oct/Nov/Dec 1899.
1891 Census:
Around 1897, family moved from Winkleigh, Devon (where the eldest four children were born) to Cardiff, Wales (where the younger two children were born). The family lived on Vere Street in Cardiff for over twenty years.
1901 Census:
1911 Census:
In Oct/Nov/Dec 1918, when Jessie was fifty-four, her husband Simon passed away, aged fifty-two, in Cardiff, Wales.
1921 Census:
At the eve of the Second World War, Jessie was living with her married daughter Minnie, son-in-law William Hitchcock, a sorting clerk at the post office, and their children, and his niece and nephew, at 14 Newminster, Cardiff, Wales.
1939 Census:
Jessie lived to see the end of the Second World War. She outlived her husband Simon by nearly thirty years. In Jul/Aug/Sep 1947, Jessie passed away, aged eighty-three, in the district of East Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales.
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