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As many of my ‘Tales’ have been pre-1960, most local ladies were mainly housewives and did not have a documented career. Happily, Doreen Hosey MBE has very kindly told me about a female relative who is buried in the All Saint’s Fawley, graveyard. is lady was Edith Blanche Hosey, and her grave is in the large area behind the east end of the church. Edith was one of twins (her twin sister was Lilian), both born on 20th September 1881 in Hordle. eir parents were Julia Collins who was born in 1860, and their father was Charles Coles born in 1851 at Hordle. By 1891 they were living in St. Georges in Hanover Square, and then in 1901 they had moved to 24 Gaydon Road, Hampstead, in London. At that time the father, Charles, was recorded as being a farm manager. One wonders exactly where in Hampstead there was a farm situated. e twin daughters were been a hard life. Also, she would have had the added worry that Henry might be killed during the First World War. Doris and Palmer Essie were both born during that period. e entrance to the house in Hythe led straight from the street into a large room, in which stood a big table, large enough to seat all the family around. ere was a small scullery; the lavatory was at the far end of a very long garden, very rudimentary just a plank with a hole in it and a bucket underneath to catch the waste. e waste from the lavatory would have been emptied into a trench which had been dug in the garden, to use as fertiliser for the kitchen produce. ere were two bedrooms upstairs and a tiny 3rd room up under the eaves of the house. ere was no hot water supply, and on wash days, Edith had to ll the old copper boiler which was housed in the tiny scullery, and then light a re underneath it to heat the water. When the water was hot, and the washing placed in the boiler it had to be scrubbed, using a wash board. e heavy wet washing then had to be li ed with her wooden tongs, rinsed by hand in cold water, and there was probably a mangle outside through which the heavy wet articles had to be squeezed in order to remove as much water as possible, before pegging them on the washing line. is task in winter must have been freezing cold and very painful on the hands. ere was no such thing as rubber gloves! Trying to get the washing for 6 or 7 persons dry during the winter must have been a nightmare. e ironing would have been done by heating up the at iron on the kitchen range, always a hit and miss method, as there was no temperature control. All the cooking and heating would have come from this one central source of heat, probably wood red. As her husband Henry was away at sea most of time everything would have been Edith’s responsibility. Edith was known locally as ‘Granny Hosey’ and was a much loved lady. Every Saturday her 7 grandchildren with their parents, caught the bus from Fawley to Hythe, and congregated in her house for ‘tea with Granny Hosey’. She would walk down the High Street of Hythe wearing her ‘pinny’ (pinafore) and her slippers, to purchase each person their own personal choice of cake from Taylors cake shop. On her return the whole family would assemble around the table to eat their tea and cakes. When they departed, each of the 7 grandchildren were given a two shilling piece in their hand. At this time two shillings would have been a very generous gi for the children to spend on whatever they wanted. In the same period that Edith was going about her daily business in Hythe, Henry, her husband, had joined the Cunard shipping line and was serving on RMS Carpathia. e Carpathia was enroute to Croatia listed as being dress makers. By 1911 records show Edith as working as a domestic servant for the Workhouse and Schools of Southampton Union, in St Mary’s Street, Southampton. In July 1912, she married Henry George Hosey and they moved to Hordle, and then to Hythe, where they lived next door but one to the Drummond Arms, opposite the Hythe Ferry. Henry George was away at sea most of the time as he worked for the Royal Navy Voluntary Reserve. Doreen remembers that he always smoked Capstan or Woodbine cigarettes. Edith and Henry had ve children, Harry, the eldest son, then three daughters, Lena, Doris, and Palmer Essie, and finally a second son named Arthur. ere is no record that Edith had to go out to work, and bringing up 5 children in the early 1900’s, mostly on her own, would have Continued on page 23
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