Lottie Garner DAINTY née INKSON, b. 18 May 1868 Burnham, Norfolk
Her Story
Lottie Garner was the eighth child of Thomas Harborow b. 16 Dec 1834 and Martha [sixth to survive to adulthood]. She was the second child to be born in Burnham where Thomas Harborow was the station master for a long time. Her birth was registered in Q2 1868. Her exact date of birth is confirmed by the 1939 England Register.
She was, of course, living at home in Burnham Sutton at the times of the 1871 census aged 2 and 1881 census aged 12.
In 1891 the census record places her on the Cromwell Road in Kensington, London. She was said to be a 22 year old housemaid. At that time Harry Dainty, her future husband, was still living at home in Northamptonshire with his parents so we don't know how or when the two met but assume that Harry also went to London and that they met there. They married in early 1898 in Lewisham, south London, where Lottie Garner's parents then lived.
By the time of the 1901 census Harry and Lottie Garner were living at 25 Seymour Mews, St Marylebone, London with their twin sons, then two years old. Harry was 30 and working as a coachman and Lottie Garner was 31. There is a school record for one of the twins which places the family in 20 Princes Gate Mews [next to the Victoria and Albert museum so very much in Kensington, London. [The same record also gives us the exact birth date of the twins : 9 Jun 1898.
At the time of the 1911 census, the Daintys were living at 9 Queensbury Mews West, South Kensington with four sons. Harry was still working as a coachman. In the record Lottie Garner declared that they had been married 13 years and that they had had 4 children, all still living. Although that was correct she would have known that that was soon to change as she was pregnant again.
Another 10 years on, at the time of the 1921 census, the Daintys were living at 106 Finborough Road, Kensington - the home that they were still in at the time of the 1939 register and probably still at post-war when Harry died [assuming that the house survived the war]. Harry, 49y 6m, is said to be a company chauffeur, presumably because he now drove a motorised vehicle rather than a horse-drawn coach. The two younger sons plus the daughter born just after the 1911 census were living with them. One of the twins, Stanley George, had been killed in action during the Great War and the other, Harry Thomas, seems to have been still serving in the naval reserve.
As already indicated, Harry and Lottie Garner were still living at 106 Finborough Road at the time of the 1939 register.
Harry died in Fulham hospital [now Charing Cross Hospital] in late 1947. His death was registered in Q4 that year and he was buried, aged 75, on 12 November that year in Brompton Cemetery. The hospital is just 2km from Finborough Road and the cemetery is just across the road from the house so they were presumably still at 106 Finborough Road when Harry died. Lottie Garner died in early 1953 but in Lewisham hospital. Her death was registered in Q1 that year and she was buried, aged 84, [perhaps next to Harry?] in Brompton Cemetery on 31 Mar 1953.