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Harriet England nee Lee together with Maud Ann Oughton nee England Gertrude Lucy Hanson nee England and Irene Gwendoline Pinnell nee Oughton Harriet England nee Lee was the daughter of John Lee a Coventry watch case maker and his wife Ann nee Worring who worked in the Coventry silk trade; she was born in 1849. She was one of ten children and the family lived in the Butts area of Coventry. She married Thomas England (E 2.1) in mid-1867 when she was just 18 and the couple had moved to Stoneleigh by the time of the first child's birth early the following year. They went on to have thirteen children altogether, eleven of whom had survived by the time of the 1911 census. Thomas and Harriet remained in Stoneleigh; she died on 28 January 1919. Of Thomas and Harriet's children, the two eldest emigrated to Canada. Commemorated on small stones alongside that to their mother's memory, however, are two of the couple's daughters: Maud Ann Oughton nee England was the ninth child and was born in early 1887 and baptised at Stoneleigh along with her sister Gertrude Lucy two years later, on 28 April 1889. The family lived on Birmingham Road; Maud married Charles Oughton in late 1904, and by the time of the 1911 census they were living in Bideford, Devon, where Charles was the conductor of the town band. Charles had been a musical member of the military and had served in the Sudan campaign between 1896-8. Maud had travelled with him to India where their son Leslie was born in 1906; Charles was then a band sergeant in the 1st Seaforth Highlanders. Their second son Horace Cyril is buried at D 26.1 . By 1913 Maud and Charles were back in Stoneleigh where their third child, Irene Gwendoline was born. When Charles died at the end of 1939 his last address was in Coventry. Maud died on 4 March 1962. Gertude Lucy Hanson nee England was the tenth child of Thomas and Harriet England. She was born on 27 March 1889 and baptised with her sister Maud Ann on 28 April. She married John Henry Hanson, a baker, in 1907, and by 1911 they were living at Lower Cape, Warwick, where he had a shop. The couple had three children born between 1908 and 1917. They continued to live in Warwick, where Gertrude died on 28 November 1960. A fourth stone completes the set of memorials here, and is that of Irene Gwendoline Pinnell nee Oughton, the daughter of Maud Ann and Charles Oughton. She was born in Coventry on 24 April 1913, the youngest of three, and married Percy Hoare Pinnell in June 1934. At the time of the 1939 register they lived at Somerset Road, Coventry, where Percy was an aero fitter. (Percy had previously served in the RAF but was a pastry cook by trade).Irene died on 15 October 1994 at 68 Henley Road, Coventry. Percy had died some 33 years previously, in 1961.