Amelia Amy was a daughter of William Ridley, a carpenter from Dartford and Ann Ridley, formerly of Stockport, of 7 Pipe Court, Gravesend.
She was born in April 1863 and baptised at St. George's Church, Gravesend on 26th April 1863.
She was aged eighteen at the time of the 1881 census, in which she is listed as a domestic servant and "visitor" at 88 Bath Street, Gravesen, a butcher's shop.
At age 19 she married Thomas George Handley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882. They had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith,1902 and Alice, 1905.
After her marriage she lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet, until her death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also a coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, creating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
She was known to enjoy sitting on a wooden seat outside the front door and chatting to neighbours. A large woman, she reportedly won a "Heaviest Woman" contest at Northfleet Carnival, beating a Mrs Valence by one pound.
She and her husband saw silent films at the Astoria, she was unable to read the subtitlse, so a Mr Clout would read them aloud for her, sometimes with other members of the audience joining in.
She was bedridden from at least 1937, lying first in the back bedroom and being moved to the front room at the outbreak of World War II, she died in January 1945 and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery.
She was born in April 1863 and baptised at St. George's Church, Gravesend on 26th April 1863.
She was aged eighteen at the time of the 1881 census, in which she is listed as a domestic servant and "visitor" at 88 Bath Street, Gravesen, a butcher's shop.
At age 19 she married Thomas George Handley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882. They had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith,1902 and Alice, 1905.
After her marriage she lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet, until her death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also a coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, creating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
She was known to enjoy sitting on a wooden seat outside the front door and chatting to neighbours. A large woman, she reportedly won a "Heaviest Woman" contest at Northfleet Carnival, beating a Mrs Valence by one pound.
She and her husband saw silent films at the Astoria, she was unable to read the subtitlse, so a Mr Clout would read them aloud for her, sometimes with other members of the audience joining in.
She was bedridden from at least 1937, lying first in the back bedroom and being moved to the front room at the outbreak of World War II, she died in January 1945 and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery.
Amelia Amy was a daughter of William Ridley, a carpenter from Dartford and Ann Ridley, formerly of Stockport, of 7 Pipe Court, Gravesend.
She was born in April 1863 and baptised at St. George's Church, Gravesend on 26th April 1863.
She was aged eighteen at the time of the 1881 census, in which she is listed as a domestic servant and "visitor" at 88 Bath Street, Gravesen, a butcher's shop.
At age 19 she married Thomas George Handley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882. They had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith,1902 and Alice, 1905.
After her marriage she lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet, until her death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also a coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, creating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
She was known to enjoy sitting on a wooden seat outside the front door and chatting to neighbours. A large woman, she reportedly won a "Heaviest Woman" contest at Northfleet Carnival, beating a Mrs Valence by one pound.
She and her husband saw silent films at the Astoria, she was unable to read the subtitlse, so a Mr Clout would read them aloud for her, sometimes with other members of the audience joining in.
She was bedridden from at least 1937, lying first in the back bedroom and being moved to the front room at the outbreak of World War II, she died in January 1945 and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery.
She was born in April 1863 and baptised at St. George's Church, Gravesend on 26th April 1863.
She was aged eighteen at the time of the 1881 census, in which she is listed as a domestic servant and "visitor" at 88 Bath Street, Gravesen, a butcher's shop.
At age 19 she married Thomas George Handley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882. They had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith,1902 and Alice, 1905.
After her marriage she lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet, until her death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also a coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, creating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
She was known to enjoy sitting on a wooden seat outside the front door and chatting to neighbours. A large woman, she reportedly won a "Heaviest Woman" contest at Northfleet Carnival, beating a Mrs Valence by one pound.
She and her husband saw silent films at the Astoria, she was unable to read the subtitlse, so a Mr Clout would read them aloud for her, sometimes with other members of the audience joining in.
She was bedridden from at least 1937, lying first in the back bedroom and being moved to the front room at the outbreak of World War II, she died in January 1945 and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery.
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