Mrs Hannah Harvey and Miss Edith Harvey

Born at South Cove in Suffolk in 1828, Hannah Martin Pain was the daughter of Thomas Pain, a farmer. On 20 December 1850 she married James Mattless Harvey at St Cuthbert’s Church in Thetford, Norfolk. According to the 1861 census, her husband was a ‘Draper and Grocer.’

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at Saxmundham in Suffolk with their seven children. The household also comprised a governess, a clerk, a milliner, two draper’s assistants, two grocer’s assistants, a cook, a nurse and a housemaid.

Mrs Hannah Martin Harvey died, aged 74, on 9 April 1903 at Palace Green, Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Her eldest daughter Edith Marion Harvey was born at Thetford in Norfolk in 1858. She was still living with her parents, now at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, when the census was taken in 1891. She married clergyman William Edmund Moll on 12 April 1893 at St John’s in Bury St Edmunds. In 1901 and 1911 the couple were living at Westgate in Northumberland. Their marriage had produced no children. Reverend Moll was successively the Vicar of St Philip’s in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Rector of Barnet. In 1924 he was appointed the Dean of Carlisle. He died in 1932.

Mrs Edith Marion Moll died, aged 80, on 1 October 1938 at 212 Thorpe Road, Norwich, leaving an estate valued at £2672.

Photographed by William Cobb of Ipswich in Suffolk.