Rev John Frewen Moor and his family

The man seated at the centre of this group is the Reverend John Frewen Moor, who was the Vicar of Ampfield in Hampshire from 1853 to 1895. The woman on the left is his wife, Frances Dorothy née Grimston. The two boys are the first of their five children: John Frewen Moor (junior), born in 1855 and Charles Moor, born in 1857. Three more children would follow later. The woman on the right is the boys’ governess, Miss Lorina Jane Jollye, who would have been about 30 when this photograph was taken. Her father Reverend Hunting Jollye was the Curate of Broome in Norfolk, who also gave private tuition in mathematics and the Classics. The lot of a Victorian governess was rarely a happy one. Neither servant nor member of the family, she usually lived a lonely life in limbo between two worlds. This one was luckier than most. In 1871 she became the second wife of an older man called Richard Day French, later a Justice of the Peace. The 1881 census shows them living at St John’s Hall in Ilketshall St John in Suffolk. When her husband died in 1900 he left an estate valued at £15,000. Lorina died on 9 May 1918 at the age of 89.

Photographed by William Savage of Winchester.