Nora Kate Holyer

Joanne Jones contacted me about Nora Kate Holyer (1877-1963), about whom I knew little until now. It seems she 'married' William Baldwin and had a string of children with him from 1895 to 1916, one of whom was registered as a Holyer, the rest as Baldwin. Nora's family descended from the Brickmaker William Holyer (1821-1884) of Warehorne, via his son George, who was born in 1843 but whose fate is unknown - in 1881 he was in Tonbridge Infirmary.

William and Nora's family is missing from the 1901 census, although Nora's mother Eliza Holyer and an unidentified Doris Holyer are present in Cambridge Road, Bexhill where they should have appeared.