Henry and Emma Horton nee Blakeman
Henry Horton's name is sometimes given as Hortin.
He was the second of three sons of James and Ann Horton/Hortin; his father was a labourer in Stoneleigh when Henry was baptised on 5 October 1824. His mother was for a short time, in later life, resident in the almshouses.
When Henry married Emma Blakeman at St John's Coventry on 21 February 1843 their addresses were given as Fleet Street and they were both minors. Henry was in fact nineteen. By 1850 they were one of the families who lived at Pipes Mill, where Henry worked as a farm labourer. They had two children by then, their first boy having been born in 1846 when the family still lived in Coventry. They went on to have a third child, Catherine Ann, who is buried alongside them at
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The family continued to live at Pipes Mill, and by 1901 Henry was working with cattle as a stockman, though he was in his mid-seventies. He and his wife still had Catherine Ann living at home with them.
Emma Blakeman was born around 1822 in Sherbourne, Warwickshire; her father's name was John and he was a labourer. She and her husband Henry lived at Pipes Mill from at least 1851, although in the 1881 census she was away from home that evening, working as a nurse for the family of the Stoneleigh schoolmaster, Mr Wright, in Vicarage Road. She died at the age of 84 on 2 March 1906 and was buried on 6 November; just three years later, on 16 June 1909, Catherine died, aged 51.
Henry survived until 21 March 1910. He was 86.