Joanna Hawker

c1788-1863

Joanna(h) was baptised on the 25^th May 1788 at Broadclyst, Devon, the daughter of William Lucraft.

Her father William married Esther Newton on the 10^th December 1781 in Broadclyst Devon.

Joanna’s siblings were (all baptised in Broadclyst Devon):

Elizabeth baptised 28^th July 1782

Benjamin and Joseph baptised 12^th April 1784 (father recorded as a Pauper)

William baptised 6^th June 1790

Esther baptised 24^th June 1792 (father recorded as a Pauper)

Nicholas baptised 9^th June 1793

John baptised 29^th November 1795, buried 6^th December 1795

Ann baptised 18^th December 1796

Jane baptised 20^th April 1800

Joanna married Charles Hawker on the 29^th March 1814 in Gittisham Devon

Joanna and Charles had the following children:

Henry baptised in 1814 in Gittisham

William babtised in 1816 in Gittisham (died in 1823 in Exeter)

Mary baptised in 1819 in Gittisham

Ann baptised in 1821 in Gittisham

John baptised in 1823 in Exeter

Charles baptised in 1826 in Exeter

Richard baptised in 1829 in Exeter

William baptised in 1831 in Exeter

Joanna worked as a Dressmaker.

In 1851 Joanna (64) was recorded as a widow, living in West Street, Newbury with her daughter Ann (29), a Dressmaker.

The 1861 census records Joanna (72), as Formerly a Dressmaker living at 77 Northbrook Street, Newbury. Her daughters Mary (41) and Ann (39), both Milliner & Dressmakers, an Anne Powell (23), a Milliner & Dressmaker’s Assistant, two nieces***, Amelia Slone (21), a Dressmaker and Amelia Bulbick (9), Elizabeth Tisher (17) and Charlotte Stevens (14), both Apprentice Dressmakers, Lucy Wilmot (17), a Servant and a Lodger, Edward Thomas Ezard (27) an Architectural Assistant were also record in the household.

*** Amelia Stone was the daughter of Joanna’s sister Ann who married James Stone in 1823 in Devon. Amelia Bulbick was the daughter of Mary Lucraft who married Charles Bulbick in 1846 in London. Mary was the daughter of Joanna’s brother Joseph.

Joanna died aged 75 in 1863, she was buried in a consecrated private grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 6^th October.

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