I would love to know where Hattie's ancestors originally came from and when. She was born on 27 Dec 1887 in the Lambeth district of London, daughter of Walter Alfred Hirschfeld and Sarah Beckham, who married in 1884.
I've traced her ancestors back to Augustus Edward Herschfeld and his wife Mary but don't know if they were the first to emigrate to England or not.

Hattie married my grandfather's brother, Ernest Frederick Palmer, in 1909. They had 3 daughters before Hattie died on 10 Dec 1913 of cardiac failure & pylephlebitis. She was only 25.

Ernest remarried and emigrated to Australia. His Australian daughter-in-law sent me a photograph of a tailor's workshop. I wonder if this is linked to the Hirshfelds as there were tailors in the family. It shows a room with 11 boys sewing, measuring, ironing or writing - almost like a school, with a man overseeing them. There are pictures on the walls of different styles of menswear, swatches of fabric, diagrams with writing in English, etc. The inscription on the back reads "Grandad instructing the boys" - perhaps Hattie's grandfather? He was Augustus Edward Herschfield - a tailor.