Elsie Maud Roberts (abt. 1896 - bef. 1910)

Born about Jun 1896 in Kent, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died before 1910 before about age 13 in Dorset, England

Biography

Elsie was born about 1896 and was about 9 years old when she died. She is the daughter of Edward Roberts and Maud Courtney.

Ted Roberts in his memoirs describes his little sister Elsie as she of the dark tresses. Ted remembers as a little chap being with his father when he carried the coffin of his little sister to the churchyard and comments we were poor indeed in those days. A cutting from her hair was enclosed in a locket and worn by her mother Abigail until her death.

Based on a description in Ted's memoirs the church could possibly have been either St Martin or St Mary the Virgin, the latter having a stone coffin which holds the body of a king, slain by order of his stepmother, now called Edward the Martyr. The church would be within about 11 miles from their home, near Wareham and Corfe Castle. He says Corfe castle is now a picturesque ruin.

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Sources

• www.freeBMD - Birth Apr 1896 Christchurch 2b 672

• Memoirs - EA Roberts 1966, held by Veronica Williams.

Acknowledgments

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