Biography of JESSIE MINNIA HARDING
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Biography of JESSIE MINNIA HARDING
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Jessie Minnia Harding was born at 8 Parr Street in Exeter, Devon on 7 August 1874, born to Harvey and Jesse Harding. Her birth was registered in the St.Sidwell district of Exeter on 10 September 1874. The census of 1881 shows that Jessie and her parents had moved to 4 Corbyn Street in Finsbury Park, Islington, Middx.
Jessie's mother, Jesse, passed away in 1880 at which time the family were living at 7 Hornsey Street in Islington. Jessie's father father then married Agnes Letitia Harding later the same year. A half-sister, Agnes Letitia was born in 1881 whilst the family were still at Corbyn Road but had moved to 5 Agnes Villas in Carmichael Road in South Norwood when half-sister Annie Edith was born in 1883. Half-brother Harvey Herman was born in 1885 by which time the family had moved to 6 Tennyson Road in South Norwood.
By 1891 the census of that year showed that they had moved to 168 Wellfield Road, Streatham, Surrey. The following census in 1901 shows the family living at 38 Eardley Road in Streatham, Surrey. That census also shows schoolteachers Thomas Smith and Walter Rushton Welch as lodging there. Jessie was working as a confectinery assistant in a bakers shop.
Jessie married lodger Walter Rushton Welch at St.Albans church in Streatham on 22 December 1901. Thomas Smith, the other lodger, and Jessie's half-sister, Agnes, were witnesses. Jessie and Walter remained living with her family. Agnes married Thomas four years later.
Jessie and Walter's son Reginald Rushton was born on 7 October 1902 at which time they were living at 33 Fallsbrook Road in Streatham. They also had daughters Gertrude and Agnes. Walter became head teacher of the Church of England school in Drimpton Road, Broadwindsor in Dorset and the census of 1911 shows them living in that village.
At some point they moved to St.Albans and the 1939 register gives their address as 65 Oakwood Drive in St.Albans. Walter's death in 1944 was registered in the St.Albans district. Jessie had subsequently been living at 71 Oakwood Drive in St.Albans and passed away three years later at Osterhills Hospital in St.Albans having suffered a cerebral haemorrhage.