Thank you, Murphicle, for keeping this thread alive. I'd given up on receiving any further contact on this one although I did get a couple of letters after an appeal in the press last year. Lettice got her middle name from her mother, so we can be fairly certain about the spelling. My research has yielded little since my last posting. The relevant section in the embryonic second edition of my family history reads as follows:
"Lettice Huband (Sharman) was born at Edenham (Lincolnshire), and was baptised there on 24th May 1874. At the time of the 1891 census 17 year old Lettice was living in Eastbourne, Sussex with her half-sister Ada Smith. Both gave their occupation as draper’s assistant. On 31st January 1900 at Edenham Lettice married widower Thomas William Green, who was a 29 year old farmer from North Yorkshire (born 2nd February 1871 at Hutton Magna). They went to live in Thomas’s home village of Hutton Magna, which lies just off the road from Scotch Corner to Bowes (now the A66). Thomas Green had married Betsy Shields at Hutton Magna on 27th September 1896, and the following year they had a daughter, Beatrice Maud. However, that marriage was short-lived as Betsy died aged 32 on 25th September 1898 – just two days short of her second wedding anniversary. She was buried at Stanwick St John, which lies about four miles east of Hutton Magna. Beatrice died of diphtheria on 3rd December 1906 aged 9. Soon after Thomas and Lettice married they had a daughter, Florence. Known as “Florrie”, she was baptised at Hutton Magna on 3rd October 1900. Lettice’s half-sister Ada Smith was again living with her at the time of the 1901 census, but now as a domestic servant. On 15th July 1901 - about eighteen months after her marriage - Lettice died aged just 27. She, Betsy and Beatrice are commemorated on a shared stone in Hutton Magna churchyard. Florence survived but never married - she was a housekeeper at Westwick near Barnard Castle until she died.
Lettice Huband junior’s name was, like her mother’s, sometimes misspelt. The final indignity in this respect was that the stonemason spelt her middle name “Hubard” on her gravestone.
On Lettice’s death in 1901 Thomas William Green was left with two small children (although Beatrice would die in 1906). He might well have had help from his numerous relatives in the village and surrounding area, but it is perhaps understandable that he married for a third time. In 1909 he married Julia Smith, who was seven years his junior and bore him eight children. Julia died in 1947 aged 69, and Thomas William Green himself died in November 1951 aged 80."
I have had contact from a descendent of Thomas and Julia; but if anyone can add more to this section with particular reference to Lettice or Florence, I would be glad to receive the information. I don't have a target date for the production of this edition of my family history, but I'd like to put it to bed sometime within the next ten tears - ideally much sooner!
