Personal information about Wilfred Leslie Bell

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Memorial Details

Name on Memorial:
   WILFRED LESLIE BELL
Date of death:
   09 July 1897
Age at death:
   13 mths
Gender:
   Male
   
Memorial type:
   4 Kerbstones; Scroll tablet
Construction Material:
   Marble Lead letters
     
Inscription:
   North Kerbstone: Outer Slope: In Loving Memory of / Elsie Jeffery Bell who died Sept. 22nd. June 22nd. 1913 aged 23 years. // Scroll tablet: In Loving Memory of / Wilfred Leslie Bell / who died July 9th. 1897 / aged 13 months //
     
Condition of memorial:
   Kerbstones and Scroll in good condition, the Scroll was almost completely buried by soil & vegetation but now dug up. Letters on Scroll, but not kerbstone, badly worn.
Pattison location code:
   P(D)8
Other Notes:
     Elsie Jeffery Bell was the second daughter of Rosa nee Taylor & Architect Walter Henry Bell, whose parents and siblings are buried in P(D)7. She had a tragic death described in the Newspaper reports on the Burial page of the FNRC website. Elsie was born at 8, West St, Newbury before the family moved to the Market Place, Newbury where her father practised. He designed many of the big houses in South Newbury. Wilfred, their youngest child of 2 boys & 2 girls, was born in The Market Place & predeceased his sister Elsie in 1897 aged only 13 months. This was a very sad time for the Bell family as 3 of Walter's brothers had died in the previous decade. Their parents, Walter & Rosa are buried in plot W67 NRC. Sources: NRC Bur Recd; Ancestry records.
     
Date monument recorded:
   02 May 2021
Monument recorder:
   EAC
 
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ELSIE JEFFERY BELL

Cemetery Accounts Record

The information below is derived from the Newbury Cemetery company Accounts ledgers.

Name: Wilfred Leslir Bell
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Newbury Cemetery Company Accounts Books.
Book: 02 Page: 096
©Newbury Town Council.
Originals held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Date of Burial: 12 July 1897
Whence Brought: Newbury
Where and how Buried: Unconsecrated Private Grave
By Whom Buried: Reverend J M Connell
Accounts Remarks:
   
Accounts Book Number: 02
Accounts Book Page Number: 096
   
Recorder's Comments: On FBMD

 

 

Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

Walter Leslie Bell
Article source:    Newbury Weekly News
Date of source:    15 August 1897
Copyright:    © Newbury Weekly News

Transcription:

  

WALTER LESLIE BELL

BELL - July 9, at the Market Place, Wilfred* Leslie, youngest child of Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Bell, aged 13 months.

* Listed in Account Book as WALTER Leslie Bell – buried 12/7/1897 
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 

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