Joseph Cass (870) | Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Biography:
Joseph Cass (870)
1866 –20/11/1914

Plot 870 Joseph Cass (1866-1914) 

Joseph was born in 1866 in Norton, North Yorkshire, and baptised 6 May. His parents were Robert and Elizabeth (née Hugill) Cass. Robert was a wood cutter.

By 1871 the family had moved a few miles to the village of Rillington. Joseph, aged five, had a younger brother and sister. The 1881 census records Joseph as a “Farm servant, indoor” at Brow Farm in the nearby village of Settrington, but by 1891 he was back at home living with his family and working as a wood cutter. This may have been on account of his father’s ill-health, as Robert died later that year.

He married Jane Watkin 17 December 1898 at St John’s, Merrow, Surrey. Jane had been born in Wales, but her place of residence before the marriage was given as Boltby, in North Yorkshire, so they may well have met before Joseph took up employment in Surrey as a woodman.  Their children Mary Elizabeth (b.1900), and Joseph Watkin (b.1902) were born in Merrow, a village near Guildford.

By the time of the 1911 census Joseph, Jane and the children were living with Frederick Smith and his wife Sarah, Jane’s sister, at the Swan Inn where Frederick was the licensee. Joseph’s occupation was given as “Unemployed forester”. It may be that his health was failing because he died 20 November 1914 in the Berkhamsted Union (workhouse) infirmary, aged only 48.

His brother-in-law Frederick Smith died four years later and they are buried together here.

Jane survived him until 1941 and is buried in an unmarked grave in this cemetery
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Plot 870 Joseph Cass (1866-1914) 

Joseph was born in 1866 in Norton, North Yorkshire, and baptised 6 May. His parents were Robert and Elizabeth (née Hugill) Cass. Robert was a wood cutter.

By 1871 the family had moved a few miles to the village of Rillington. Joseph, aged five, had a younger brother and sister. The 1881 census records Joseph as a “Farm servant, indoor” at Brow Farm in the nearby village of Settrington, but by 1891 he was back at home living with his family and working as a wood cutter. This may have been on account of his father’s ill-health, as Robert died later that year.

He married Jane Watkin 17 December 1898 at St John’s, Merrow, Surrey. Jane had been born in Wales, but her place of residence before the marriage was given as Boltby, in North Yorkshire, so they may well have met before Joseph took up employment in Surrey as a woodman.  Their children Mary Elizabeth (b.1900), and Joseph Watkin (b.1902) were born in Merrow, a village near Guildford.

By the time of the 1911 census Joseph, Jane and the children were living with Frederick Smith and his wife Sarah, Jane’s sister, at the Swan Inn where Frederick was the licensee. Joseph’s occupation was given as “Unemployed forester”. It may be that his health was failing because he died 20 November 1914 in the Berkhamsted Union (workhouse) infirmary, aged only 48.

His brother-in-law Frederick Smith died four years later and they are buried together here.

Jane survived him until 1941 and is buried in an unmarked grave in this cemetery

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