Harriet Pell

Harriet Maude Pell 

Born: 6 March 1885, Wakefield 

Baptised: 3 May 1885, Chapelthorpe 

Father: Richard Pell (b. 1864)

Mother: Hannah Elizabeth Pell (b. 1865)

Brothers: Albert Edward Pell (b. 1887)

Marriage:        12 February 1918, Chapelthorpe 

Husband:         Charles Pearson Spedding

                        b. 1877

                        Pharmaceutical Chemist & Optician

Issue – 

#1 Molly Spedding (b. 1919) (d. 1919)

#2 Eleanor Mollie Spedding (b. 1921)

#3 Betty Joan Spedding (b. 1923) 

In 1891 – 

She is at Calder Grove, Wakefield. Her father is listed as ‘Licensed Hawker’. Harriet, her mother and brother, Albert, are unlisted. Her cousin, Albert Ernest Drake (b. 1877), is listed as ‘Hawkers Assistant’.

In 1901 – 

She is at Calder Grove, Wakefield. Her father is listed as ‘Licensed Hawker in Glass China Earthenware Dil & C’. Her mother and brother, Albert, are unlisted. Her cousin, Lily G Smith (b. 1879), is unlisted. Harriet is listed as ‘Pupil Teacher (Elementary)’. 

In 10/05 – 

PT at Crigglestone.

In 10/07 – 

Appointed to Sandal Magna Infants’, Wakefield. £75.

In 04/09 – 

Address is Brice Hill House, Calder Grove, Wakefield. 

In 1911 – 

She is at Brice Hill House, Calder Grove. Her father is listed as ‘Licensed Hawker Pots Oil Tofts’. Her mother is unlisted. Her brother, Albert, is listed as ‘Solicitor’. Harriet is listed as ‘Elementary School Teacher’. 

In 11/19 – 

Marries Charles Pearson Spedding on 12.02.18 at Chapelthorpe. Add: Savile Road, Dewsbury.

In 1921 – 

She is at 5 South Street, Savile Town, Thornhill. Her husband is listed as ‘Pharmaceutical Chemist & Optician’. Harriet is unlisted. There is a nurse, Edith Stewart (b. 1874).

In 04/22 – 

Birth to Eleanor Mollie on 29.06.21 at Savile Town, Dewsbury.

In 00/36 – 

Husband, Charles Pearson Spedding dies 06.03.1936. 

In 1939 – 

She is at Brice Hill House, Wakefield. Harriett and her mother are unlisted widows. There are two closed records. 

d.         26 December 1986, New South Wales, Australia