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Walter Moses Mortimer
1879-1909
Moses Walter Mortimer was born c1879 in Wiltshire. He was baptised as Moses Walter Mortimer on the 2nd March 1879 in Woodborough Wiltshire, the of Susanna Mortimer, a Servant (no father mentioned on the baptism record)
His mother Susannah was baptised on the 16th March 1856 in Woodborough, the daughter of George and Mary Jane Mortimer (nee Smith) who were married on the 22nd September 1838 in Woodborough.
The 1881 census records Moses Mortimer (2) living in Woodborough, Wiltshire with his Mortimer grandparents George (72) a Farm Labourer and Mary (61) a Laundress. His mother Susannah (23) was recorded as a Cook, visiting a Lydia Parker (55) a Tailoress and her children William (21) a General Labourer and Emily (18) a General Servant, at 2 Clare Place, Newbury.
Susannah married William Parker in 1881 (marriage registered in Newbury)
In 1891 Walter M Mortimer (12) was living in Northcroft Lane, Newbury with his mother Susanna Parker (34), his stepfather William Parker (30) an Agricultural Labourer and his half-siblings, Brice Parker (9), Rose Parker (5), Lillian Parker (4) and Margaret Parker (1).
Walter married (as Moses Walter M Parker) Jeannette Elizabeth Walker in 1903 (marriage registered in Newbury). (Jeannette was born in 1875 in Lambeth the daughter of Frank Emsdorff and Fanny Elizabeth Walker (nee Marnes) who were married in 1873 in Lambeth)
The Berkshire Electoral Registers record Moses Parker living in Kennet Road, Newbury in 1905, 1906 and 1907.
Jeannette and Walter had a son, Walter Emsdorff Parker born on the 5th February 1907.
Walter Moses Mortimer died aged 30 in 1909 in the Newbury Workhouse, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7th May.
Jeannette gave birth their 2nd son, Reginald Charles Mortimer on the 17th July 1909.
The 1911 census records Jeanette Mortimer (44) and her two sons Walter Emsdorff Parker (4) and Reginald Charles Parker (1) as inmates in the Newbury Workhouse.
In 1939 Jeannette was recorded as Jeannette Mortimer born 14th April 1875, living at 41 Oxford Road, Highworth, Wiltshire. Her son Reginald C Mortimer was recorded living with her and was a working as a Bar Steward and a Green Warden. Jeannette died aged 72 in 1948 (death registered in the March quarter in Newbury, as Jeannette E Mortimer).
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