Bessie Maud (Crockett) Denton (1903 - 1994)

Born 3 Oct 1903 in Wickham, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Horace Charles Denton — married 1928 in Wickham, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 30 May 1994 at age 90 in Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

1903 Birth Wickham, New South Wales, Australia Circa Oct 3 1903

1928 Age ‎~25‏ Marriage to: Horace C Denton Wickham, New South Wales, Australia 1928

1935 Birth of daughter: Elizabeth Denton NSW, Australia Before 1935

1952 Age ‎~49‏ Marriage of daughter: Elizabeth Denton to Arthur Charles Smith 1952

1973 Age ‎~70‏ Death of husband: Horace C Denton Newcastle NSW, Australia 1973

1994 Death Mayfield, New South Wales Before May 30 1994

Burial

Newcastle Memorial Park Beresfield, Newcastle City, New South Wales, Australia PLOT Loggia 12/3 A/7 MEMORIAL ID 193475300 Information from register, may not be on plaque. Death Age - 90. Death location - Belmont North, New South Wales, Australia Gravesite Details Location of Ashes - Loggia 12/3 A/7

• Fact: Burial (1994) Beresfield, New South Wales, Australia

Anecdotes

• Bessie Maud was an excellent baker! My earliest memories of her were of walking into a large kitchen, filled with yummy smells. Whenever our family would visit during the school holidays, I loved to walk into her big, warm & sunny kitchen to smell all those amazing, mouth-watering aromas from her baking projects. And, of course, I got to scrape the mixing bowl after I’d “helped” her. (Maybe it was her gentle way of placating an annoying little granddaughter, too!) The kitchen at the back of the house had a huge window that looked out on to a flourishing kitchen garden. The kitchen seemed to be flooded with sunlight, in the otherwise dark house at 35 Buruda Street, Mayfield West. Her specialties were all kinds of cakes & biscuits, bread & pies, for the family & others. When I would go for a walk down to the corner butcher’s shop, she would always take him a little sample of her recent biscuit or cake project. She would always take a cake on a plate with us when I accompanied her to church on Sunday mornings. I don’t at all remember her savoury cooking in meat dishes, for example. My younger brothers, Greg and Neil Smith, say they thought her a poor cook because her dinners were really awful, with bland & watery beef & vegetable stews being "the worst”. So perhaps it’s the cakes and sweet treats that she excelled at but not the other dinner meals. (Contributed by Erica Smith-Hawron)

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 03 December 2018, 07:40), entry for Bessie Maude Crockett(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L1NY-K2K); contributed by various users.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193475300/bessie-denton