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Personal Details of Jessie Aston

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Buried:	03/03/1967

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Burial Register

Name at death

Jessie Aston

Age at Death

Burial Date

03 March 1967

Abode

136, Gravelly Hill North, Erdington
Birmingham

Official at Burial

Rev B Foulger

Comments

Burial Register Index

Book	1917
Page Number	312
Reccord Number	12047

Sources

Burial Register

Burial Register entry for Jessie Aston
©Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Memorial Details

	From top face of base:/ Erected by his sorrowing widow and children/ to the Everlasting memory of/ Frederick Joseph Jesser Harrold/ born Dec.3rd.1836/ at Temple Wood, Wilts./ died April 17th. 1898./ Also of Jessie Aston/ died Feb.26th. 1967/ aged 76 years./ Sweetest memories of our darling sister Floral died 25th. Dec. 1935./ In Ever loving Memory of Darling Mother died 27th. Aug. 1933.

Name on Memorial	Jessie ASTON
Date of death	26/02/1967
Age	76
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Angel with raised wings carrying lyre, resting on sculptured stone base.
Construction Material	Limestone
Condition of memorial	Fair: Inlaid letters
Pattison Location Code	LN13
Recorder's Notes	Missing surnames from the inscriptions were taken from the burial records.
Others named on memorial
Frederick Joseph Jesser HARROLD
Floral HARROLD
Mary Elizabeth HARROLD

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Jessie Aston
© Margot Wheaton

Biographical Information

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Jessie Aston

Jessie Aston née Harrold

Jessie Harrold was the youngest of the 5 daughters of Frederick and Elizabeth Mary Harrold. She was born at ‘Kiu Kiang’, St Johns Road, Newbury on 23^rd May 1890 and was only 7 year’s old when her father died.

As was the case with well brought up young women at the time she did not work, however, In August 1914 when she was 24, she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment in Newbury (VAD) as a nurse to help with the war effort. The VAD nurses were trained in basic first aid and assisted trained nurses in treating wounded soldiers returning from the front. She worked in this role at Newbury District Hospital until she was discharged in May 1919. During this time she met her future husband, Eli Aston, who worked for the Inland Revenue as a valuer for Probate and they married in 1921 in Newbury. Jessie was 31 years of age.

Eli came from a family of canal boat builders in Tipton in Staffordshire and after their marriage, they lived in Erdington in Birmingham. He lost contact with his family after his marriage and never spoke about them. They had one daughter, Mary, born in December 1925.

After the death of Jessie’s Mother in 1933, the Harrold family home,‘Kiu Kiang’, St John’s Road, Newbury, was sold to pay off the debts that had accrued since the death of her Father and her only unmarried sister Floral, came to live with them. Floral died in 1935 leaving her estate to Jessie which included many of the artifacts from the house.

When WW2 broke out in 1939, Jessie helped in the Red Cross Canteen in Erdington, serving up meals to servicemen and women. Eli Aston died in 1960 and Jessie suffered a stroke a few years later and died in 1967. It was her wish to be buried in the family plot at Newtown Road Cemetery in Newbury with her Mother, Father and Sister Floral.

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