Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Plot x535 Arthur William Wibden (1875-1909) Arthur was born 28 July 1875 in Dagnall, Bucks, the son of William Wibden, a groom. He was baptised 22 August at Edlesborough church and vaccinated against smallpox on 2 November the next year. By 1891 his mother had died and Arthur was living in Little Gaddesden with his father, now employed as a gardener’s labourer, and his older brother John, Both boys were working with their father. Arthur married Sarah Ann Creasey in Berkhamsted in 1903. It has not been possible to establish Arthur’s occupation as an adult. In 1909 they were living at 15, Station Road where Arthur died 6 April 1909 aged only 33. His mother-in-law, Emma Creasey, who died in 1910, is buried here with him. Sarah Ann survived him until 1963 when she died aged 80.