Louisa Ann Timbers was the daughter of Samuel Peacock Timbers (1848) and Elizabeth Hunn and was born in Great Yarmouth in 1868. In 1871 she was boarding in the house of Bigger Jones, a fisherman’s wife, Bull’s Lane, Gorleston. In 1881 she was living in the household of David Todd, and her mother at 29 Nelson Road in Gorleston, where she is listed as “daughter”. By 1891 she had joined the Salvation Army and, at the time of the census, was listed as a visitor at the home of Lucy Chambers - also in the Salvation Army - at 12 Mayda Road in Hackney.

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• 1. 1891 Census. 12 Mayda Rd, Hackney. Visitor. Age 23. Officer Saln. Army. Born Yarmouth. • 2. 1871 Census. 29 Nelson Rd, Gorleston. Louisa Timbers. Daughter. Age 14. Scholar. Born Yarmouth. • 3. Birth Registers. Timbers, Louisa. Mar. 1868. 4b. _2. Yarmouth.