In Loving Memory of
ELIZA LAKER
WIDOW OF THE LATE
THOMAS LAKER
OF HORSHAM, SUSSEX
WHO FELL ASLEEP
OCTOBER 27TH 1910
AGED 73 YEARS
I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH
Eliza Kemp was
born about 1838 at Wymondham in Norfolk, the daughter of
John and Ann Kemp.
At some point between 1851 and 1860 Eliza moved to Sussex where she
married John Matthews.
John was a butcher, and the young couple appear to have been living with his
parents in Cowfold in 1861.
John and Eliza had at least one child:
Charles, born at
Horsham in 1866. John died the following year, aged only 29.
In 1869 Eliza married
Thomas Laker, an
ironmonger from Horsham. Curiously, although both appear to have been living
in Horsham at the time, they were married at St Clement, Barnsbury,
Islington.
ThomThomas and Eliza had at least two children: Alfred, born 1870, and
Thomas, born 1873.
After she was widowed for the second time Eliza ran a lodging house in
Horsham (1881 census), then worked as a servant to a poulterer in Lingfield
(1891 census). By 1901 she was living with her son
Thomas and his
wife in Desborough, where she died in 1910.