My Great x3 Aunt Kate (1871 - 1919) was a laundress and a younger sister of my Great Great Grandmother Grandmother Mary Ann 'Polly' Boobier (nee Manning) (1869 - 1916).
Kate was born on 4th December 1871 in Exeter, Devon to William Manning (about 41), a general labourer, and Mary Ann Manning (nee Ireland) (about 30), a laundress.
Kate was baptised on 12th May 1872, in St Leonard's, Exeter.Kate was the fourth of nine children (five daughters and four sons):
- Emma 1865 - 1866 (11 months old)
- William 1868 - 1920 (51 years old)
- Mary Ann 'Polly' 1869 - 1919 (48 years old)
- Kate 1871 - 1916 (46 years old)
- Rose 1875 - 1877 (2 years old)
- Samuel 1877 - 1877 (11 weeks old)
- James 1878 - 1887 (8 years old)
- Unnamed Daughter 1880 - 1880 (0 years old)
- Frederick John 1882 - 1882 (6 weeks old)
1871 Census:
Like her older siblings, William and Polly, Kate attended Rack Street Central School in Exeter. Next to Kate's name in the 1878 register are Alfred and Fred Boobier. Kate's older sister Polly would go on to marry Alfred and Fred's older brother Walter Boobier. It seems likely the two families may have known each other since school.
Very sadly six of Kate's siblings passed away as children..
Five years before Kate was born, her older sister Emma passed away, aged 11 months, in 1866.
In August 1877, when Kate was five, she lost two younger siblings: Samuel, aged eleven weeks, and Rose, aged two years.
In 1880, when Kate was eight, her baby sister, who was so young that she was yet to receive a name, passed away.
In March 1882, when Kate was ten, her youngest brother Frederick passed away, aged six weeks.
And in 1887, when Kate was fifteen, her brother James passed away, aged eight years.
1881 Census:
The 1891 Census lists Kate as deaf. However, she is not listed as such, on any other census.
1891 Census:
Early in 1895, when Kate was twenty-three, her father William passed away, aged sixty-five, in Exeter.
In 1908, when Kate was thirty-six, her mother Mary Ann passed away, aged sixty-six, in Exeter.
Mary Ann had run a laundry business, employing her surviving three children - William, Polly and Kate - and daughter-in-law Ellen. Towards the end of Mary Ann's life, it seems William and Ellen took over the business - still employing Kate.
In 1916, when Kate was forty-four, her sister Polly passed away, aged forty-six, in Exeter. Polly's husband Walter had predeceased her, meaning her death left her teenage daughters - Kate's only nieces - Ellen and Ivy orphaned.
On 25th April 1918, Kate's only nephew, William (son of her brother also called William), was killed in action, during the First World War.
On 5th September 1919, Kate passed away, aged forty-eight, at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
On 11th September 1919, she was buried at Holy Trinity, Exeter.
From the Western Times of 10th September 1919
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