Thursday, 22 September 2011

the Samworths of Brooklands Hastings

Found some clippings again about the Samworths of Brooklands Hastings
and the wife of reverend J.N.Vlieland Frances Elisabeth Samworth and her sister
Joanna Samworth
.





Address: Halloway Pl, The Brookland

Clara LUCK
When Clara was 18 she went to work for Joanna Samworth at The Brooklands in Hastings. Miss Samworth was a 56 year old spinster and lived on her own with just Harriet Lane as her cook and Clara as her housemaid. We find the three of them there in the 1891 census. (RG12/760)
SAMWORTH Joanna Head F 56 Living On Own Means Sussex - Hastings
LANE Harriet Servnt F 32 Cook And Domestic Sussex - Ore
LUCK Clara Servnt F 18 Housemaid Domestic Sussex - Beckley

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