Ryde Cemetery
Mrs Nellie Dorothy Quelch
Title: Mrs
Forenames: Nellie Dorothy
Surnames: Quelch
Date of Death: 17/01/1942
Age at Death Years: 46
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."
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: 1875
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:
E & N Quelch (July 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Related Documents:
PDF file: 1901 Census; Marriages; Inquest.''Entry from the 1901 census and two marriages from the IW Registrars marriage index, also the inquest report from the IW County Press. A sad discovery.''
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