Harrowell plot

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Row	11
Section	41
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Harrowell plot

Plot number:
11,41
Family name:
Harrowell
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Alice Harrowell

1872 –1941

Paper mill worker who married bricklayer Alfred Harrowell

1872 –1941

Paper mill worker who married bricklayer Alfred Harrowell

Relatives

Alfred Harrowell — wife

Mrs Elsie A. Howlett — daughter

Research:

Melanie Hilton

Unmarked grave Alice Harrowell (née Neal) (1872-1941)

Alice was born in 1872 in Hemel Hempstead to Lucy (née Rose) and John Neal. Her father was a hay dealer and carter born in Grandborough, Bucks. Alice was baptised in St Paul’s Hemel Hempstead 10 October 1873.

By 1881 John Neal was a general dealer and Lucy a straw plaiter. Alice had an older sister and a younger brother. Ten years later John, now back to dealing in hay, Lucy and Alice were living at 2, Union Street, Hemel Hempstead. Alice was a paper mill hand, working for John Dickinson’s at Apsley Mills.

Alice married Alfred Harrowell, a bricklayer from the large Berkhamstead family of builders and bricklayers on 15 August 1896 in St Paul’s, Hemel Hempstead, and the couple settled at 2, Hill Side, Cotterells Hill, Hemel Hempstead, where Fred was born in 1897, Elsie in 1901 and Arthur in 1905.

The family were still at that address in April 1911. 14 year old Fred was employed as a printer at John Dickinson’s paper mill in Apsley and son Dick was born later that year.

The Harrowells moved to Acorn Cottage, Bennetts End, Hemel Hempstead and then to 1, Albion Cottages, Leverstock Green.

Fred joined the Herts Yeomanry, but died 3 October 1918 of malaria. He is commemorated on the Hemel Hempstead war memorial.

The 1921 census shows the family living at 31, Queens Road, Berkhamsted.

In 1926 they suffered two losses – the couple’s daughter Elsie died, aged only 25, a year after her marriage and Alfred’s mother Lizzie passed away.

Alfred died 31 December 1935 at 31, Queens Road, aged 63 and is buried here in an unmarked grave, as is their daughter Elsie Howlett.

In 1939 Alice was still living at 31, Queens Road with her son Dick, a bricklayer, and her unmarried older sister Mary Ann Neal. Also living with them was eight year old Ivy Margaret Dessoy, the daughter of Ernest Dessoy and his wife Violet (née Hardman) – a connection of the Harrowells.

Alice died in November 1941 at Ashridge Hospital aged 69.

Alfred Harrowell

1873 –31/12/1935

A bricklayer and builder

1873 –31/12/1935

A bricklayer and builder

Relatives

William Harrowell — father

Lizzie Harrowell — mother

Mrs Elsie A. Howlett — daughter

Alice Harrowell — husband

Research:

Melanie Hilton

Unmarked grave Alfred Harrowell (1873-1935)

Alfred was born in 1873 in Northchurch, the third child and second son of William and Lizzie (Elizabeth) Harrowell (née Davis). His father was a bricklayer in 1881 and many members of the extended family were concerned in the building trades. In the census of that year the family were living in the High Street.

Eventually Alfred was to have four sisters and six brothers.

By 1891 William was a builder and Alfred had followed in his footsteps and become a bricklayer.

He married Alice Neal 15 August 1896 in St Paul’s, Hemel Hempstead and the couple settled at 2, Hill Side, Cotterells Hill, Hemel Hempstead where Fred was born in 1897, Elsie in 1901 and Arthur in 1905.

The family were still at that address in April 1911. Alfred described himself as “bricklayer builder” and 14 year old Fred was employed as a printer at John Dickinson’s paper mill in Apsley. Son Dick was born later that year.

They moved to Acorn Cottage, Bennetts End, Hemel Hempstead and then to 1, Albion Cottages, Leverstock Green.

Fred joined the Herts Yeomanry, but died 3 October 1918 of malaria. He is commemorated on the Hemel Hempstead war memorial.

The 1921 census shows the family living at 31, Queens Road, Berkhamsted.

In 1926 they suffered two losses – the couple’s daughter Elsie died, aged only 25, a year after her marriage, and Alfred’s mother Lizzie passed away.

Alfred died 31 December 1935 at 31, Queens Road, aged 63. Alice survived him until 1941 and is buried in this cemetery in an unmarked grave.

His parents are buried in Plot 757 and Elsie is also buried here in an unmarked grave.

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Family name	Harrowell
Burial date	Not known
Burial capacity	2 (Full used)
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