Comfort Buckle was born in October 1851 in Kemerton, Nr. Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, she was baptised at the Parish Church on 30th November 1851. Comfort was the eldest child of George Buckle, 23yrs, Railway employee, and Anne, 21yrs, nee Strickson, Dressmaker. She had 4 siblings, William b.1853, George b.1855, Fanny b.1856, and Percy b.1860.
In the census of 1861, aged 9yrs, Comfort was with her grandmother, Mary Strickson, as visitors in Stilton, Huntingdonshire, her mother's home county. Her parents were living in Farncombe, Surrey, and in February 1863 Comfort's father died there aged 36yrs. Her mother supported her family as a dressmaker.
On 30th October 1877, aged 26yrs, Comfort married Edwin Hackman, 23yrs, a police constable, at St. John, Farncombe, Surrey. They lived in Wonersch, Surrey, where in 1880 their daughter, Ada, was born. Over the following 30yrs, the family moved several times as Edwin was promoted; he became an Inspector, finally reaching the rank of Superintendent of Surrey Constabulary, Chertsey.
By 1911, Edwin had retired and along with Ada, now a governess, they moved to Worthing, Sussex, where they lived at Westleigh, 179, Tarring Road. Sadly, Ada died in 1914 from tuberculosis, aged 34yrs.
Comfort was widowed in 1926 when Edwin died, aged 71yrs; he had been a sidesman at St. Botolph's Church for many years and was described in the Heene parish magazine as quiet and unassuming, an embodiment of duty and fidelity.
Comfort left Worthing and was residing in Ashford, Middlesex, when she died, just a few months after Edwin, on 12th January 1927, aged 75yrs. Probate was granted to Alfred James Joy, gardener, and Roland West, civil servant, effects £3571 16s 0d. Value 2023 - £287,000.