Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Plot 1152 Fanny Elizabeth Welch (née White, late Grisbrooke) (1884-1972)

Fanny Elizabeth White was born on 19th January 1884 at 1 Mary’s Place, London. She was the daughter of Thomas and Emma (or Elizabeth) White. Both her parents were from Northampton and her father was a tailor.

At the time of the 1891 census she living in Hardingstone, Northampton aged 8 with her mother, paternal grandmother and siblings.

Fanny entered domestic service and the 1901 census records her aged 17 working as a general servant to the MacCormack family 19, Burns Street, Northampton.

In 1905 she married Albert Grisbrooke, a house painter, in Northampton. Sadly he died in Northampton in 1908, aged only 22.

By 1910, when she married Ernest Charles Welch, a bricklayer and widower, aged 37, at St Peter’s Church Berkhamsted, she had already moved to “Coromandal”, Charles Street, Berkhamsted.

Their daughter Gwendoline Phyllis was born in 1914.

The 1921 census shows the family at 8, Highfield Road. Ernest was employed as a bricklayer by Cooper’s chemical works, but was only working half-time – this may have been the result of cut backs due to the depressed economy. They were still at that address when the 1939 Register as drawn up. Ernest had retired.

Ernest died 5 May 1945. He left £383 (about £14,500 in 2025).

Fanny died 28 February 1972 at 13, Queens Road, Berkhamsted. She left £10,800 (about £130,000 in 2025)

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Fanny Elizabeth White was born on 19th January 1884 at 1 Mary’s Place, London

1891 census living in Hardingstone, Nothampton aged 8

1901 census working as a servant to the MacCormack family in Northampton, aged 17

1911 census living at 8 Highfield Road age 27

1910 married Ernest Charles Welch, a widower aged 37 at St Peter’s Church Berkhamsted