Esther Gentle

   Another name for Esther was Esther Gentle.

  General Notes:

I think this is the same Esther Gentle who was baptised 5 May 1844, giving her date of birth as 7 Dec 1829 - the "7 Dec" coincidence suggests the same child, not another. And the 1829 /30 dates are the wrong way round for the first one to have died, before the next was given the same name.[ahk.ged]

Sister in law Emily Gillet a widow age 50 yrs born Ashwell a straw plaiter was visiting on 1881 census March 2004 phoned Paddington cemetery to find area of grave 9528 as could not find it on various visits. I spoke to a lady named Maria who informed me it was a communial grave but there was no mention of an Esther Lucas buried there,
possibility Esther remarried.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• Alt. Birth: Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, 7 Dec 1830.

• Alt. Death: Paddington, 27 Feb 1909.

• Residence: Workhouse Yard, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, 6 Jun 1841.

• Residence: Workhouse Yard, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, 30 Mar 1851.

• Residence: Baldwin Corner, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, 7 Apr 1861.

• Residence: Lucas Lane, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, 3 Apr 1881.

• Occupation: Straw Plaiter, 30 Mar 1851.

• Occupation: Rat Catchers Wife (Widow).

• Occupation: Straw plaiter.

• Occupation: Rat Catchers Wife (Widow), 3 Apr 1881.

• Baptism: Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, 26 Mar 1832.

• Baptism: Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England, 26 Mar 1832.

• Alt. Burial: Communial Grave no 9528, Plot 3W, Paddington Cemetery, London, 6 Mar 1909.

Esther married Josiah Lucas, son of Richard Lucas and Mary Anne Hudswell Westerman, on 24 Oct 1859 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire England. (Josiah Lucas was born on 5 Jul 1834 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire England, died on 10 Mar 1881 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire England and was buried on 15 Mar 1881 in St Marys Churchyard, Ashwell, Hertfordshire England.)