Emma Hand was born in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire on 22 January 1856, the daughter of William Doggett Hand and his wife Mary Ann nee Gatward. In October 1861, when Emma was only 5, her mother died aged only 33 years. Ten years later in 1871 Emma had moved to Swavesey in Cambridgeshire and was described in the census as a servant to a farmer and his wife in Market Street. A few years later in 1875 her father, who had continued to live in Fenstanton, passed away aged 51 years. Emma married Ephraim Stocker, an agricultural labourer, the marriage being registered in Caxton Cambridgeshire; he also came from Swavesey; in fact in 1871 he had been living at the same address as Emma, being a horsekeeper for the same farmer, Robert Crisp. They continued to live there, having a daughter Selina Ann Stocker on 26 August 1878, with Ephraim being a farm foreman and horseman by the time of the 1911 Census. Eliza Ann Davies, their niece, was now living with them acting as a housemaid. Ephraim died on 27 January 1920 at the age of 64. By 1939 Emma was living in the Almshouses at Stoneleigh, dying there some 5 years later on 7 July 1944 aged 88. Her daughter Selina had moved to Stoneleigh (see
B2.2) and presumably Emma, widowed, came too.