Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mrs Ethel May Quelch

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Ethel May
Surnames: Quelch
Date of Death: 28/10/1932
Age at Death Years: 33
Map Reference Number: RSHG 009 D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section OP Plot 2209
Grave Description: HEADSTONE IN THE SHAPE OF A SCROLL
Grave Condition Description: STAINED AND WEATHERED
Other Information: THERE IS NO INFORMATION ABOUT ALBERT QUELCH AS STATED ON THE MAP JUST HIS TWO WIVES.

Note: On 17 January 2011 we were contacted by A Dixon with this sad story: "Ethel and Albert were my maternal grandparents. Ethel died of breast cancer at 33 leaving 4 young children. Albert later married her sister Nellie who had previously been married to his brother (killed in WW1) Nellie having had cancer herself killed herself at only 46 probably fearing she had a recurrence of the disease."
Old Website Grave ID: 1874

Inscription:

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

ETHEL MAY

WIFE OF

ALBERT WILLIAM QUELCH

DIED OCTOBER 28th 1932

AGED 33 YEARS

ALSO OF HIS WIFE

NELLIE DOROTHY QUELCH

DIED JANUARY 17th 1942

AGED 46 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
E & N Quelch (July 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1901 Census; Marriage; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1901 census and the GRO marriage index, also a brief obituary and funeral report from the IW County Press.''

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