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MOULES, Patience Edgoose
1874 - 1929 (55 years) Has 50 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1841 - 1876 (34 years)-
Name MOULES, Patience Edgoose Birth 1874 West Walton, Norfolk 
Gender Female Death 1929 Holbeach, Lincolnshire Person ID I1251 Edgoose Last Modified 4 Feb 2026
Father MOULES, Joseph, b. 2 Aug 1841, West Walton, Norfolk d. 1876, West Walton, Norfolk (Age 34 years) Mother EDGOOSE, Mary (Polly), b. 8 Oct 1842, West Walton, Norfolk d. 9 Apr 1934, Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, England (Age 91 years) Marriage 27 Dec 1871 West Walton, Norfolk Family ID F227 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family HUGGINS, William Henry, b. 1875, Nettleham, Lincolnshire, England d. 1928, Holbeach, Lincolnshire (Age 53 years) Marriage 1903 Wisbech Registration District, Cambridgeshire Family ID F778 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Birth - 1874 - West Walton, Norfolk 
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PATIENCE EDGOOSE HUGGINS formerly MOULES 1874-1929
The birth of Patience Edgoose MOULES was registered in 1874.
(GRO December Q 1874 Wisbech 3b 593)
Joseph MOULES had married Mary (Polly) EDGOOSE at West Walton, Norfolk, on 27 December 1871.
Patience Edgoose, daughter of Joseph MOWLES, farmer, and Mary, was baptised at West Walton, Norfolk, on 27 September 1874.
(PR transcript)
At the time of the 1881 census she was living in Dam Road, West Walton:
Mary MOULES, daughter (head), aged 37, widow, born at West Walton;
Grace MOULES, granddaughter, aged 8, born at West Walton;
*Patience MOULES, granddaughter, aged 6, born at West Walton;
Mary MOULES, granddaughter, aged 5, born at West Walton;
William SMITH, servant, aged 14, farm servant, born at Walpole.
(RG11/1697/81/7)
From the 1891 census returns for Dam Road, West Walton:
Patience EDGOOSE, head, widow, aged 74, a farmer, born at West Walton;
Mary MOWLES (sic), daughter, widow, aged 49, born at West Walton;
Grace MOWLES, granddaughter, aged 18, schoolteacher, born at West Walton;
*Patience MOWLES, granddaughter, aged 16, schoolteacher, born at West Walton;
Mary MOWLES, granddaughter, aged 15, born at West Walton.
(RG12/1306/61/9)
From the 1901 census of New Field, Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk:
Patience EDGOOSE, head, widow, aged 84, farmer, employer, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Mary MOULES, daughter, widow, aged 58, farmer, employer, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
*Patience MOULES, granddaughter, single, aged 26, schoolmistress, at home, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Mary Moules, granddaughter, single, aged 26, at home, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Julia EDGOOSE, granddaughter, single, aged 24, living on own means, born at Walsoken, Norfolk.
(RG13/1558/87/5)
In 1903 Patience Edgoose MOULES married William Henry HUGGINS, brother of the Ada Mary HUGGINS who married William Frederick EDGOOSE at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, on 8 November 1903.
(GRO September Q 1903 Wisbech 3b 1275)
From the 1911 of Bridge Road, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire:
William Henry HUGGINS, head, aged 35, married, baker & grocer, employer, born at Nettleham, Lincolnshire;
*Patience Edgoose HUGGINS, wife, aged 36, married 7 years, no children, assisting in the business, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Mary MOULES, relative, aged 68, widow, household duties, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Caroline Elizabeth BRUNTON, visitor, aged 21, single, school teacher, born at Tittleshall, Norfolk;
Hilda WILKINSON, servant, aged 15, single, general servant domestic, born at Gedney Drove End, Lincolnshire.
(RG14/19519)
Patience E. HUGGINS died in 1929.
(GRO December Q 1929 Holbeach aged 56)
NOTES & QUERIES:
The EDGOOSE/HUGGINS connection:
1) In 1903, William Henry HUGGINS, sister of Ada Mary HUGGINS, married Patience EDGOOSE MOULES, daughter of the Mary EDGOOSE who had married Joseph MOULES at West Walton in 1871.
2) Ada Mary HUGGINS married William Frederick EDGOOSE, illegitimate son of Mary's sister Ruth EDGOOSE, two years later.
3) The only close point of contact between the HUGGINS and EDGOOSE familes appears to have been the village of Nettleham in Lincolnshire where Ada Mary and William Henry HUGGINS were born and where William Frederick EDGOOSE was boarded out - at least in 1881. Whether a possible friendship formed before 1881 when they were just eight years old endured into adulthood is not proven.
My Heritage has a RATHBONE website managed by an Andrew RATHBONE which features Patience Edgoose HUGGINS born MOULES.
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