Showing posts with label Frances Hart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frances Hart. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2008

Florence Hart

My grandfather's father Samuel George Archbold remarried after his first wife died
around 1910 - can't find the date yet or the record of the new marriage. His second
wife was Florence Hart, who lived to an old age and of whom I now have a colour photo among others. She seems to have been a really lovely person, something glows out of her photos, and it is said that my grandmother liked her better as a mother-in-law, although my grandparents emigrated in 1921, a year or two after the marriage.

This is what I know, off the back of a photo: Florence, known as Floss, had been the second wife of a man she met in London while in service with/to his sister. They had a daughter, Sissie Hart, who I think may have been named Frances. This husband died after only four years of marriage, some time
after which Floss married Samuel. Floss was not Chichester-born. I can't work out what her maiden name was from the BDM as marriages including a "Hart" and a "Florence" are too numerous.
I can't find a lead by looking up Frances Hart either. Floss must have been
born between about 1862 and about 1890 which is a pretty wide range. I'd like to know more about her, just because of her photos :)