187 –04/10/1961
A domestic servant who married railway clerk Arthur Warburton
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Plot 978 Elizabeth Warburton Read (née Grounds) (1887-1961)
Elizabeth was born in Appleton, near Warrington, Cheshire in 1887, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Alice (née Warburton) Grounds. Her father was a quarryman who had been born in Orford, Lancashire, and her mother was from Hale in Cheshire.
In 1891 the family lived at Chapel House, Hill Cliffe, Appleton and her uncle Thomas Grounds and his family lived next door. Elizabeth had an older sister and two older brothers.
In 1892, when she was only five. she lost both her mother and one of her brothers.
Her father married again and in 1901 the family was living at 2, Mitchell Street, Stockton Heath, Runcorn. Her father was working as a general labourer.
Elizabeth went into domestic service and in April 1911 was employed by boarding house keeper Jane Windus and her daughter in Southport.
She married railway clerk Arthur Trubshaw Read in the Baptist church next to where she had grown up in September 1911. The Warrington Examiner for 16 September reported that “The marriage was solemnised at the historic Baptist Church at Hill Cliffe, on Monday, of Mr Arthur T Read, A.C.I.S., of Derby, and Miss E.W. Grounds, youngest daughter of Mr J. Grounds of Lower Walton. The bride…wore a travelling costume of navy blue and [a] grey picture hat with feathers to match. After the ceremony the wedding breakfast was held at the home of the bride’s father. Later in the day the happy couple left for North Wales where the honeymoon is being spent.”
The couple moved to Derby where Elsie M (1914) and Arthur Douglas (1918) were born.
In 1921 they lived at 14, Belgrave Street, Derby.
By 1929 the family had moved to 21, Greenway West, Berkhamsted. As Arthur was still employed as a railway clerk the move was presumably in the course of his employment.
Sadly Arthur Douglas, aged just 11, died 4 June 1929. He is buried here.
The 1939 Register records Arthur and Elizabeth at “Munslow”, Hall Park Gate, Berkhamsted.
In 1954 Marion Jane, the daughter of Elsie and her husband Robert Cecil Christian sadly died aged 5 months. She is buried here with Arthur Douglas and her grandparents.
Elizabeth died 4 October 1961. Arthur survived her until 1972.