My 2xgreat grandmother was born and grew up in Luton, in Bedfordshire, joining many thousands of others working in the booming straw hat industry, probably from a young age. She would have earned good money, which may be why she didn't immediately marry the father of her first child. What would Hattie's formative years in … Continue reading Harriet Scrivener (1851-1931): Hattie in hat town