May Moss

May Winifred Moss 

Day Student

Born: 20 February 1889, Northampton 

Baptised: 14 April 1889, Northamptonshire 

Father: Edmund Moss (b. 1861)

Mother: Charlotte Elizabeth Moss (b. 1860)

Brothers: Edmund Palmer Moss (b. 1897)

Sisters: Ethel Amelia Moss (b. 1887), Ivy Gwendoline Moss (b. 1891) [LDTC 1911], Edna Lottie Moss (b. 1895)

In 1891 – 

She is at 19 Vine Street, Lincoln. Her father is listed as ‘Lay Clerk Cathedral’. May, her mother and sisters, Ethel and Ivy, are unlisted. 

In 1901 – 

She is at 8 Castle Hill, Lincoln. Her father is listed as ‘Tailor and Lay Clerk Assistant’. May, her mother and siblings (Ethel, Ivy, Edna and Edmund) are unlisted.

In 10/07 – 

PT at St. Peter's-in-Eastgate Girls, Lincoln.

Qualification: Matric. 1907.

In 10/09 – 

Appointed to Cheney Green.

In 04/10 – 

Address is School House, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall.

In 04/11 – 

Appointed to Long Eaton Girls'. Assistant.

In 1911 – 

She is at Consumptive Home in Cheddar, Somerset. She is listed as a patient with ‘phthisis’ and a ‘Schoolmistress’.

In 1921 – 

She is at 37 Sutherland Road, Bolton as a boarder. The head of the household, Frederick Lockwood (b. 1879), is listed as ‘Under Manager Confectionery Department’. His wife, Annie Lockwood (b. 1881), is unlisted. His niece, May Alexandra Ashworth (b. 1902), is listed as ‘Shorthand Typist, Bookkeeper’. May is listed as boarder and ‘Teaching’. 

In 1939 – 

She is at Little Rising Thaxted Road, Saffron Walden. May is listed as ‘Teacher Employed by the Essex Education Authority’. 

Nothing more definitive found