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Violet May Andrews
1907 –1919
Violet May Andrews
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Unmarked grave Violet May Andrews (1907-1929)
Violet May was the eighth child of George Andrews, a general labourer at the chemical works, and his wife Alice (née Tarbox). She had five older sisters and two older brothers and in 1911 they were living at “Lusitania”, Highfield Road. This appears to be number 1a. Although now the name of the ship Lusitania immediately brings to mind its sinking by the Germans during World War I, it had been launched in 1906 and was then the largest passenger ship in the world.
In the 1911 census George is shown as a widower and was a carman for Coopers and Nephews, probably his employers ten years previously. Alice had died, perhaps giving birth to their youngest child, another daughter. Four of the girls were still living at home in Highfield Road: the oldest was keeping house; one was making wooden boxes for John Dickinson, the paper manufacturer; Violet May was making lady’s tailoring for Corby, Palmer and Stuart at their Lower King’s Road factory and the youngest was at school.
Violet May died in 1929 and was buried 19 October. She was only 22.
Her mother, Alice who died in 1919, lies here in this cemetery in an unmarked grave.
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Unmarked grave Violet May Andrews (1907-1929)
Violet May was the eighth child of George Andrews, a general labourer at the chemical works, and his wife Alice (née Tarbox). She had five older sisters and two older brothers and in 1911 they were living at “Lusitania”, Highfield Road. This appears to be number 1a. Although now the name of the ship Lusitania immediately brings to mind its sinking by the Germans during World War I, it had been launched in 1906 and was then the largest passenger ship in the world.
In the 1911 census George is shown as a widower and was a carman for Coopers and Nephews, probably his employers ten years previously. Alice had died, perhaps giving birth to their youngest child, another daughter. Four of the girls were still living at home in Highfield Road: the oldest was keeping house; one was making wooden boxes for John Dickinson, the paper manufacturer; Violet May was making lady’s tailoring for Corby, Palmer and Stuart at their Lower King’s Road factory and the youngest was at school.
Violet May died in 1929 and was buried 19 October. She was only 22.
Her mother, Alice who died in 1919, lies here in this cemetery in an unmarked grave.
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