I believe Caroline was born in Docklow near Leominister, probably in 1828-9. She was baptised there by her mother in February 1829, no father's name is given. At 15 she was a house servant in Lyonshall at Yaidon Farm.
According to Civil Registration records, she married Benjamin Bridges, chimney sweep, on 16th October 1854 in Bromyard. However, on the 1851 census, she was lodging with Benjamin and was calling herself Bridges. She may have had two children with her future husband before they married, but I think it is probable that they did marry in 1851 - they were both of full age. They had ten children, six of them girls.
They moved to Pembridge in the early 1850s and stayed for life. Caroline's mother, unmarried, was in domestic service in Pembridge in 1861.
Benjamin died in 1891, leaving Caroline living on her own. She would have received the Lloyd George pension in 1909, and in 1911 she was living with her grand-daughter on West St. Pembridge. She died in September 1911.
No occupation is recorded against Caroline in any census after 1841, even after 1891 when her husband died.
She gave Ella Leather eight songs, one transcribed by the Pembridge's schoolmaster, the rest by Vaughan Williams via phonograph.