Since
I am currently focusing on the family of my 3great-grandmother Mary
A. Howard, it seems appropriate that’s today’s obituary should be
hers. It is more of what I would call a death notice or a funeral
notice than an obituary, not providing even her first name, but it
does provide a date of death. It is, indeed, the only source I have
yet obtained that does so.
The
notice appeared on page 8 of the Chelmsford Chronicle on
19 Apr 1901.
MALDON.The funeral of Mrs. Filby, mother of Mr. Wm. Filby, of the Star Inn, took place at the Cemetery on Thursday afternoon. She died on Saturday last at the ripe old age of 90.
That
makes her death on 13 Apr 1901 and her burial on 18 Apr 1901. Since
she died in Maldon and it
says only that her funeral was at “the Cemetery,” I presume that
she must have been buried at Maldon Cemetery, and on that presumption
I have added her record to Findagrave.
The western part of Maldon Cemetery |
Source:
“Maldon,”
The Chelmsford Chronicle, 19 Apr 1901, p. 8, col. 2; digital images,
The British Newspaper Archive
(http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
: accessed 21 May 2017), Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED.
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