Harriet Elizabeth Skerrett Bradley

Harriet Elizabeth Skerrett Bradley (1852–1920) was the first of the six children of Henry Bradley and Maria Robinson. Otherwise known as ‘Auntie Hetty’, Harriett was born in Chelsea in 1852. By 1881, she was a machinist, aged 28, and living like most of Henry and Maria’s children, with their grandmother, Elizabeth Hounsell, in 52 Southgate Road, Hackney. She is next located, in 1891 living with her younger sister, Maria Rosetta, and her husband, Edward Owen, in Islington in 43 Oakley Road. Aunt Hettie is now aged 38, and described as a shirtmaker, a skill, or at least trade, that as we shall find out later, she was to pass down to her niece, Hetty Jane Owen, then aged seven. In 1911, she was boarding in Stoke Newington, still a shirt machinist. She never married. She was buried in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington on the 14th December, 1920. She was living at 21 Foulden Road at the time.