Lucy Jane Eyles was born on 19 Oct 1854 at James Street, Rugby, Warwick, to parents William Eyles and Mary Ann (born Groocock). She was baptized on 3 Dec 1854 at St George, Leicester. She was some years older than her next sibling and may have spent her early life living away from her parents and their other children, as in 1861 at the age of 6 she was with her grandparents, James and Jane Groocock 21 Chatham Street, Leicester. By 1871 she was back with her parents William and Mary Ann Eyles at 88 Manor Street, Chelsea. Lucy married Henry Boult on 19 Jul 1875 at Free Methodist Chapel, Lambeth, and at the time of the 1881 census they were at 3 Tescott Road, Chelsea, London. He was a schoolmaster and she a schoolmistress. By 1891 they had moved to Orpington in Kent, where they both worked at the Chisleshurst Road School and lived in the adjacent road by the same name. Lucy's interests in education were wider than the local school. Within today's family there is a George IV rosewood desk presented to her in July 1879 by Isaac Pitman for services to the teaching of shorthand. Lucy died of cardiac failure on 28 September 1929, having survived her husband by 11 years. She was 74. Her death certificate gave her as the widow of Henry Boult schoolmaster. The informant was daughter Elsie Gardner, present at the death, at 12 Woodnook Road, Streatham. Lucy and Henry's children are detailed on Henry Boult's page. |
