Biography:
Bertie Brackley
1884 –1912
Bertie Brackley
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Unmarked grave Bertie Brackley (1884-1912)
Bertie Matthew was born in early 1884 in the small village of Ashley Green, halfway between Berkhamsted and Chesham, the son of Matthew and Fanny (née Honour) Brackley. His father had been a brewer’s labourer, but by 1881 was a farm bailiff living at Gaddesden Row.
Bertie had two older sisters, Mary Ann and Edith Sarah. At the time of the 1891 census Bertie and Edith were visiting their maternal aunt, Harriet Honour, a laundress living in Chesham Road, Berkhamsted.
Their father died when Bertie was eleven and the 1901 census found Bertie living with twenty five year old sister Edith, single and with no occupation given, at 126, High Street. Their income must have come from Bertie’s employment as a commercial clerk and the rent from their boarder a printer’s compositor.
Ten years later Bertie and Edith were living with their mother at 33, Victoria Road. Bertie was working as a railway clerk and a young dressmaker was lodging with them.
Bertie married Lily Grimsdale in London in early 1912 and their son Cecil K was born at 12 October that year. Like his father he was to become a railway clerk.
Bertie died in early 1912 aged only thirty four.
His sister Edith Sarah, who died in 1945, is also buried in this cemetery.
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Unmarked grave Bertie Brackley (1884-1912)
Bertie Matthew was born in early 1884 in the small village of Ashley Green, halfway between Berkhamsted and Chesham, the son of Matthew and Fanny (née Honour) Brackley. His father had been a brewer’s labourer, but by 1881 was a farm bailiff living at Gaddesden Row.
Bertie had two older sisters, Mary Ann and Edith Sarah. At the time of the 1891 census Bertie and Edith were visiting their maternal aunt, Harriet Honour, a laundress living in Chesham Road, Berkhamsted.
Their father died when Bertie was eleven and the 1901 census found Bertie living with twenty five year old sister Edith, single and with no occupation given, at 126, High Street. Their income must have come from Bertie’s employment as a commercial clerk and the rent from their boarder a printer’s compositor.
Ten years later Bertie and Edith were living with their mother at 33, Victoria Road. Bertie was working as a railway clerk and a young dressmaker was lodging with them.
Bertie married Lily Grimsdale in London in early 1912 and their son Cecil K was born at 12 October that year. Like his father he was to become a railway clerk.
Bertie died in early 1912 aged only thirty four.
His sister Edith Sarah, who died in 1945, is also buried in this cemetery.
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