Harriet Stevens

c1812-1880

Harriet Hunt Holley was baptised on the 19^th December 1812, in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the daughter of George Hunt and Elizabeth Holley (nee Fletcher) who were married on the 1^st February 1812 in Alverstoke, Hampshire.

According to census records her father George was born c1783 in Devizes, Wiltshire. He died aged 82 in Greenwich, Kent.

Her mother Elizabeth was baptised on the 7^th July 1782 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the daughter of Charles and Melior Fletcher (nee Sevile) who were married on the 8^th August 1771, in Heytesbury. (Surname recorded as Flatcher at time of marriage). Elizabeth died aged 89 in 1867, in Newbury. She was buried in the NRC on the 26^th February.

Harriet’s siblings were:

Mary Ann, baptised 15^th November 1816, at St Nicolas, Newbury

William, baptised 25^th October 1819, at St Nicolas, Newbury

George, (aka Charles) baptised 18^th November 1822, at St Nicolas, Newbury (died aged 2years 6 months, in 1825, buried as Charles on 2^nd May 1825, at St Nicolas, Newbury).

 John, baptised 25^th September 1825, at St Nicolas, Newbury

Harriet married John Price on the 16^th December 1830, at St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire.

(John was born in St George, London c1811)

In 1851 John (40) as working as a Labourer, he was living in Cross Street, Southampton, Hampshire with Harriet (35). (Surname recorded as Prill on ancestry)

Harriet was widowed in 1852, John died aged 41. (Death registered in the December quarter, in Southampton)

Harried remarried on the 7^th March 1853 at St Mary, Southampton. Her 2^nd husband was Thomas Stevens.

(Thomas was born c1810 in Hammersmith Middlesex)

In 1861 Harriet (48) was living with Thomas (51), a Secondhand Clothes Dealer, at 23, Canal Walk, Southampton. Her niece Emma Holley (14) was recorded living with them.

The 1871 census records Harriet (60) as a Clothes Dealer, living along at 58, Orchard Lane, Southampton.

Harriet died aged 68 on the 31^st May 1880, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery with her mother Elizabeth (buried in 1867). Her brother-in-law George Purdue (1^st husband of her sister Mary Ann) is buried in the grave next to them.

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