Biography:
Mabel Mary Chetwood
24/05/1900 –12/04/1940
Mabel Mary Chetwood
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Plot 723 Mabel Mary Chetwood (née King) (1900-1939)
Mabel was the daughter of Thomas and Lizzie (née Hodby) King and was born 24 May 1900 at 6, Park Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire. Her father was employed as a gas stoker.
By the time of the 1911 census the family was living at Gas Works Cottage, Billet Lane, Gossoms End and her father, who had been born in Meppershall, Bedfordshire, was foreman of the gasworks. Mabel had an older brother and two younger brothers.
Mabel was living at home at the gasworks in June 1921 and employed as a “cloth-costume sewing machinist” by Corby, Palmer & Stewart, Mantle Manufacturers in Lower Kings Road. Her father was still the gas works foreman, with her eldest younger brother assisting him.
She married George Samuel Chetwood, 18 years her junior, in Berkhamsted just before the 1939 Register was compiled. George was a grocery and provision shop assistant and driver. They lived at 18 Shrublands Avenue.
George joined up and in Mabel’s probate records is described as “Driver, HM Army”, presumably in the Royal Army Service Corps.
The marriage was tragically short – Mabel died in West Herts Hospital in April 1940 aged 39 and was buried here on 16th with her parents, Lizzie and Thomas King.
Samuel later remarried and died in Lancashire in 2005.
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Plot 723 Mabel Mary Chetwood (née King) (1900-1939)
Mabel was the daughter of Thomas and Lizzie (née Hodby) King and was born 24 May 1900 at 6, Park Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire. Her father was employed as a gas stoker.
By the time of the 1911 census the family was living at Gas Works Cottage, Billet Lane, Gossoms End and her father, who had been born in Meppershall, Bedfordshire, was foreman of the gasworks. Mabel had an older brother and two younger brothers.
Mabel was living at home at the gasworks in June 1921 and employed as a “cloth-costume sewing machinist” by Corby, Palmer & Stewart, Mantle Manufacturers in Lower Kings Road. Her father was still the gas works foreman, with her eldest younger brother assisting him.
She married George Samuel Chetwood, 18 years her junior, in Berkhamsted just before the 1939 Register was compiled. George was a grocery and provision shop assistant and driver. They lived at 18 Shrublands Avenue.
George joined up and in Mabel’s probate records is described as “Driver, HM Army”, presumably in the Royal Army Service Corps.
The marriage was tragically short – Mabel died in West Herts Hospital in April 1940 aged 39 and was buried here on 16th with her parents, Lizzie and Thomas King.
Samuel later remarried and died in Lancashire in 2005.
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