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Edith Annie Woolley (922)
1889 –09/11/1918
Edith Annie Woolley (922)
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Plot 922 Edith Annie Woolley (née Winfield) (1889-1918)
Edith was born in Berkhamsted in 1889, the daughter of farm labourer James Winfield and his wife Jane. The couple had twelve children in all and between at least 1891 and 1901 were living at 2, Canal Side, Berkhamsted. Her parents are buried in this cemetery.
Edith went into domestic service and in April 1911 was a general domestic servant living in the household of widow Julia Lamb and her family at “Fairholem”, Cross Oak Road.
She married Edward George Woolley 11 November 1911 in Berkhamsted.
Kathleen Mary was born in 1913 and Lillian Margaret in 1915.
Edith died 8 November 1918 20, Victoria Road aged 29. Her cause of death was “1. Renal calculi (kidney stones) 2. Pyomyositis”.
Pyomyositis (Myositis tropicans) is a rare bacterial infection of the skeletal muscles which results in an abscess. At the time an absence of antibiotics would have made it extremely difficult to treat and it can end in fatal sepsis which must have been the case here.
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Plot 922 Edith Annie Woolley (née Winfield) (1889-1918)
Edith was born in Berkhamsted in 1889, the daughter of farm labourer James Winfield and his wife Jane. The couple had twelve children in all and between at least 1891 and 1901 were living at 2, Canal Side, Berkhamsted. Her parents are buried in this cemetery.
Edith went into domestic service and in April 1911 was a general domestic servant living in the household of widow Julia Lamb and her family at “Fairholem”, Cross Oak Road.
She married Edward George Woolley 11 November 1911 in Berkhamsted.
Kathleen Mary was born in 1913 and Lillian Margaret in 1915.
Edith died 8 November 1918 20, Victoria Road aged 29. Her cause of death was “1. Renal calculi (kidney stones) 2. Pyomyositis”.
Pyomyositis (Myositis tropicans) is a rare bacterial infection of the skeletal muscles which results in an abscess. At the time an absence of antibiotics would have made it extremely difficult to treat and it can end in fatal sepsis which must have been the case here.
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