Jane Moss (maiden name Honeybone) sentenced to seven days in prison was born in 1842 in Ascott. Her sister Fanny Honeybone (later Rathband) sentenced to ten days in prison was born in 1857 in Ascott. Their parents were John and Jane (maiden name Newman) Honeybone who were married in Ascott on 27 October 1834. John had been born in Ascott in1809 and Jane in Langley in 1816.
Jane and Fanny had four brothers, George John, Peter, Thomas and Reuben, and four sisters, Eliza, Ann, Ellen and Emma.
On 1 March 1862 Jane married Robert Moss, a shepherd/farm labourer born in Ascott in 1834. Jane worked as a gloveress. They did not have any children but prior to her marriage Jane had given birth in 1860 to a son George.
Jane died and was buried in Ascott in 1879 aged 37.
On 9 September 1876 Fanny married Edwin Rathband who was born in Milton in 1856. Edwin worked as a carter or farm servant and Fanny as a servant. They had fourteen children of whom six died under 19 years of age. There were seven boys, George, Frank, Reuben, Harry, Wilfred, Hubert and Frederick, and seven girls, Jane, Ada, Millicent, Elizabeth, Alice, Hilda and Lily. Wilfred, Alice and Reuben all died in July 1897.
Edwin died in 1929, but Fanny lived to be 81 and died in 1939 as the last of the Martyrs.
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