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Frank and Polly’s eldest daughter was Jessie Simson Roberts, born at Dedham in September 1878, just two months after her parents were married.
As the eldest, she was also the first to leave home. In 1901 Jessie, aged twenty-three, was living in London and working for Charles Gold, a successful wine merchant who had married into the well-known Gilbey family. Gold was also an MP in the closing years of the nineteenth century.
Jessie’s role in Gold’s bustling Cumberland Terrace household (with upwards of a dozen servants) was as a nurse (one of three). She also worked as a lady’s maid, apparently travelling overseas.
In 1904 Jessie married Willie Palmer (1879–1958), a brewer’s clerk from Somerset, and the couple settled at 46 Fanshawe Street, Hertford.
Jessie died aged fifty-seven in December 1935.
They had two daughters, Winifred Jessie (Winnie, 1905–85) and Constance Mabel (Connie, 1907–33).
Winnie, married a Moravian missionary, Cyril Herbert Edwards (1904–1958?), in 1936.
The Rev Edwards was minister at the Bethabara Moravian Church, Jamaica, from 1932. They had a large family, returning to the UK after the Second World War.
The Palmer family during the First World War.
Connie and Winnie seen here together, photographed in about 1930. Connie died at a young age, from an illness..
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