Margaret Lee was born in Blaina in 1881 the youngest child of Michael Lee and Ann Phillips and is shown on the 1891 census with her father Michael and two brothers William and John
In the 1901 census Margaret aged 17, had moved to Merthyr with her father and was in service as a Nurse/Domestic. The head of the household was Elizabeth Smith (yet to be clarified) aged 66 and widowed.
There appear to be eight people living in the house including a baby, six family and two servants, Margaret probably nursemaid to the one year old granddaughter.
Between 1901 and 1904 I don't really know much, but I do know that she was working in the Cwm, on the Blackbrook Road, Caerphilly Mountain (always know as the Big House) as a cook when she married my grandfather.
She met my grandfather Edward Gough and they married in January 1904 to which I have a copy of their marriage certificate.
They went on to have five children, Elon, Evelyn, Phyllis (my mum), Olwen and Ceinwen the youngest who will be 99 in June 2017.
Margaret died of the Spanish Flu in August 1918, about two months after the youngest girl was born, and is buried at St Martins Church, Caerphilly.
England and Wales Census of 1901:
Name | Relation | Status | Sex | Age | Occupation | Birth Place |
Elizabeth Smyh | Head | Widowed | F | 66 | Living On Own Means | Garway, Herefordshire |
William K Smyh | Son | Single | M | 33 | Solicitor | Merthyr, Glamorganshire |
Gertrude M Davies | Daughter | Married | F | 32 | Merthyr, Glamorganshire | |
Alice E Smyth | Daughter | Single | F | 22 | Merthyr, Glamorganshire | |
John Paul Morgan | Brother | Single | M | 58 | Retired Commercial Traveller | Garway, Herefordshire |
Kathleen M Davies | Grand daughter | F | 1 | Caerphilly, Glamorganshire | ||
Margaret Meyrick | Servant | Single | F | 18 | General Serv Domestic | Quakersyard, Glamorganshire |
Margaret Lee | Servant | Single | F | 17 | Nurse Domestic | Blina, Monmouthshire |
England and Wales Census of 1911:
Name | Relation | Status | Sex | Age | Occupation | Birth Place |
Edward Gough | Head | Married | M | 29 | Collier Hewer | Cardiff, Glamorganshire |
Margeret Gough | Wife | Married | F | 27 | Blaina, Monmouthshire | |
Elon John Gough | Son | M | 6 | Caerphilly, Glamorganshire | ||
Evelyn Gough | Daughter | F | 4 | Caerphilly, Glamorganshire | ||
Phyllis Gough | Daughter | F | 2 | Caerphilly, Glamorganshire |
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