Biography:
Violet May Andrews
1907 –1919
Violet May Andrews
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Unmarked grave Violet May Andrews (1907-1929)
Born in Berkhamsted in 1907, Violet May was the eighth child of George Andrews, a general labourer at the chemical works, and his wife Alice Phoebe (née Tarbox). She had five older sisters and two older brothers and in 1911 they were living at “Lusitania”, 1, Highfield Road. 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.
Her mother died in October 1919 and is buried in this cemetery.
In the 1921 census George is shown as a carman for Coopers and Nephews, probably his employers ten years previously. Alice was keeping house; Nellie 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 Rose was at school. Also living with them were young George Harry Andrews, a nephew and a boarder.
Violet May died in 1929 and was buried 19 October. She was only 22.
Her father died in April 1939 and is buried here with Violet.
Her brother Joseph William is also buried in this cemetery.
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Unmarked grave Violet May Andrews (1907-1929)
Born in Berkhamsted in 1907, Violet May was the eighth child of George Andrews, a general labourer at the chemical works, and his wife Alice Phoebe (née Tarbox). She had five older sisters and two older brothers and in 1911 they were living at “Lusitania”, 1, Highfield Road. 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.
Her mother died in October 1919 and is buried in this cemetery.
In the 1921 census George is shown as a carman for Coopers and Nephews, probably his employers ten years previously. Alice was keeping house; Nellie 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 Rose was at school. Also living with them were young George Harry Andrews, a nephew and a boarder.
Violet May died in 1929 and was buried 19 October. She was only 22.
Her father died in April 1939 and is buried here with Violet.
Her brother Joseph William is also buried in this cemetery.
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