Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Susan "Grandma" Day (x103)

02/02/1812 –30/06/1891

Mother of Alice Day who married Samuel Timson

Relatives

Alice Maria "D. A." Timson — other

Cecily Timson — other

Alice "Keedie" Timson — daughter

Fanny "Auntie Fan" Day — daughter

• Melanie Hilton

Plot x103 Susan “Grandma” Day (1812-1891) 

Susan was born 2 February 1812 at Combs, near Stowmarket, Suffolk. Her parents have not been traced.

She married Thomas Day, a brewer’s clerk in Chapel St Mary, Suffolk in 1830. They were to have two sons and six daughters: George Frederick (1840, Mistley, Essex), Emma (1842, Mistley), Ada (1843, Mistley), Fanny (1845, Manningtree), Louisa Jane (1846, Manningtree), Arthur Harry (1848, Colchester), Ellen (1849, Manningtree) and Alice (1852, Manningtree).

In 1851 they were living at South Hill, Manningtree and Thomas was doing well enough for them to employ a live-in servant.

Susan and Thomas lost two of their children young –  little Ellen died aged only 7 in 1856 and the next year they lost George died, aged 16, at Birch, Essex.

By 1861 Thomas had become a police constable and they were living in North Street, Sudbury. Emma, Fanny, Harry and Alice were all at home.

Thomas died before 1880 when Susan travelled to Brooklyn, New York to stay with their daughter Ada and her husband James Sidford.

At the time of the 1891 census Susan was living with her daughter Alice Timson and her husband Samuel, a “managing clerk” at Cooper’s chemicals, at Clunbury House, Ravens Lane, supported “on her own means”. (Samuel would become managing director of Cooper’s.)

Susan died 20 June 1891 aged 80. She lies here with her two granddaughters, Cecily and Alice who died in childhood, her daughter Alice Timson and her unmarried daughter Fanny.

Fanny "Auntie Fan" Day

30/05/1845 –29/01/1926

Daughter of Susan Day and sister of Alice Timson

Relatives

Alice Timson — sister

Susan "Grandma" Day (x103) — mother

Alice Maria "D. A." Timson — other

Cecily Timson — other

• Melanie Hilton

Plot x103 Fanny Day (1845-1926)

Fanny was born 30 May 1845 in Manningtree, Essex, the fourth child of the eight born to Susan and Thomas Day. Her father was a brewer’s clerk who later became a police constable.

Fanny lived with her parents until at least 1861. She was never to marry. In April 1871 she was working as a dressmaker and living as a boarder with the Nash family in Newington, London.

On 5 April 1881 she was recorded as “a friend” in the household of  Joseph and Sarah Watson at The Windmill, Mitcham Common. Joseph was a “yeast contractor”. No occupation was recorded for Fanny who was then 34.

She was there again in March 1901, still without an occupation given. Ten years later she was living with her sister Alice Timson, at The Kraal, White Hill, Berkhamsted.

Alice died in 1916 and at some point Fanny moved to 26, Greenway, Berkhamsted where she died 29 January 1926.

She is buried here with her sister Alice Timson, her mother Susan Day and her two young nieces Cecily and Alice Timson.

Alice "Keedie" Timson

04/06/1851 –25/12/1916

Daughter of Susan Day and wife of S. R. Timson, manager of Coopers

Relatives

Susan "Grandma" Day (x103) — mother

Alice Maria "D. A." Timson — son

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Plot x103 Alice “Keedie” Timson (née Day) (1851-1916) 

Alice was born 4 June 1851in South Hill, Manningtree, Essex where her father was employed as a brewer’s clerk. Her mother was Susan. She was the youngest of their eight children.

By the time of the 1861 census her father was a police constable and they were living I North Street, Sudbury.

The 1871 census records 19 year old Alice as the Assistant Mistress at Bovingdon School

She married Samuel Rowland Timson 20 May 1880 at Bovingdon parish church. She was “of Bovingdon”, so presumably was still at the school, and “daughter of the late Mr Thomas Day of Halstead, Essex.”

In 1881 they are recorded living at “Clunbury House”, Raven’s Lane. Samuel was “managing clerk to manufacturing chemist” – that is, Cooper’s.

Their first child, Alice Maria, was born 5 September 1882 in Bovingdon and their second, Cecily Emma, 11 August 1883. She died aged only two months on 14 October.

Blanche Muriel was born 2 July 1884 and, thankfully, was a healthy child who lived to be 99.

Rowland Clunbury was born 17 April 1886 at the Raven’s Lane house, he lived to be 68, dying in South Africa.

But tragedy struck again when Alice, aged only 10, died on 12 October 1897. She is referred to on the gravestone as “D.A.” – “Dear Alice”, perhaps?

Their final child, Stanley Day, was born in 1888 and was to die in Zimbabwe in 1966.

Samuel, who was rapidly rising through the ranks at Cooper’s, appears to have travelled a great deal and he was away from home in April 1891 when the census records Alice, Blanche, Rowland and Stanley at Clunbury House, along with Alice’s 80 year-old widowed mother, Susan Day and a live-in domestic servant.

By 1911 the family had moved to “The Kraal” – by this time Samuel was travelling frequently to South Africa on business – White Hill, Berkhamsted. This was a 12-roomed house and in April 1911 Alice (Samuel was away again) was living there with Blanche and Rowland and her sister Fanny Day and a cook and two housemaids. (There is more about White Hill and the setting here:  https://www.rectorylanecemetery.org.uk/locations/white-hill/)

Alice died 25 December 1916 at “The Kraal”, Berkhamsted, aged 64.

She was buried here 29 December with her daughters Alice and Cecily and her mother Susan Day (died 1891). Her sister Fanny Day, who died 29 January 1926, also lies here.

Alice Maria "D. A." Timson

03/09/1882 –12/10/1892

Daughter of Alice and S.R.Timson; died age 10 years

Relatives

Alice "Keedie" Timson — mother

Susan "Grandma" Day (x103) — other

Fanny "Auntie Fan" Day — other

Cecily Timson — sister

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Plot x103 Alice Maria Timson (1882-1892) Indexed and shown as DA Day

Alice was the first child of Alice (née Day) and Samuel Timson. She was born in Berkhamsted 3 September 1882 at “Clunbury House”, Raven’s Lane.

Sadly Alice died 12 October 1892 aged only 10. The gravestone records her as “D.A.” – “Dear Alice”, perhaps?

She lies here with her baby sister Cecily, her mother Alice, her grandmother Susan Day and her aunt Fanny Day.

Cecily Timson

11/08/1883 –14/10/1883

Daughter of Alice and S. R. Timson, died in infancy

Relatives

Susan "Grandma" Day (x103) — other

Alice Timson — mother

Fanny "Auntie Fan" Day — other

Alice Maria "D. A." Timson — brother

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Plot x103 Cecily Emma Timson (1883-1883)

Little Cecily was the second child of Alice (née Day) and Samuel Timson. She was born in Berkhamsted 11 August 1883 and tragically died 14 October that year.

She lies here with her sister Alice Maria, her mother Alice, her grandmother Susan Day and her aunt Fanny Day