Maud Gozzard Biography

Maud Gozzard, nee Anthony (1871-1948?), was the wife of James Walter Gozzard, the artist. 

Maud was born in 1871 to John P. Anthony (b.1839), a straw hat manufacturer, and Jemima A. Anthony, nee Sibley (b.1840). The 1891 census shows her occupation as 'artist' at the age of 19.

She married James Walter Gozzard in Hackney, London, in 1894. The couple were living in Luton, Bedfordshire, in 1901, but by 1911 were living in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. They had no children.

By 1921, James was living in Kensington and was married to Lily, who was nearly 30 years his junior. We can find no death record for Maud between 1911 and 1921, or a record for his marriage to Lily. We have, however, found a death record for a Maud Gozzard in 1948.

There may be a couple of explanations for this; possibly Maud's death and the subsequent marriage to Lily happened overseas, or it's possible that Maud and James separated and were living apart, and that Lily wasn't his wife at all, but declared as such for the census and propriety. Divorce was rare at the time. If this were the case, the 1948 death date for Maud may be correct.