Monument Details

 

  4 kerbstones
  Limestone. Lead
   
  Cross or top tier: IHA // Top tier of base, east face: Hannah Todd / died May 28th 1932 // Middle tier of base, east face:Jane Fisher Todd died Aug. 28th 1933 // Bottom tier of base, east face: Elizabeth Alice Todd Sept. 17th 1939 // East kerbstone, outer slope: In hope //
   
  3 tiered base with missing top or cross. Top tier detached from base tiers. 3 kerbstones, maybe a fourth on east side missing. Kerbs buried by soil. Memorial hidden from view under holly bush, now exposed.
  ChNW24
    The Todd sisters were born in St Peter Port, Guernsey to Henry, a painter & glazier, who died soon after the youngest was born, and Amelia, a school teacher. After Henry's death. Amelia took the family to Alderney where she was a teacher. The family later moved to Greenham where Amelia and daughters taught at Greenham Schools. Hannah lived in Pound St and taught in the National School. Later the sisters lived together with other spinster teacher relatives in Craven Road. On retirement the three sisters lived in St George's Avenue, Newbury. Hannah and Jane were living there when they died. Elizabeth moved to Clevedon and died there in 1939. Her Will gives her date of death as 16th Sept, not 17th as recorded by Mrs P & in her MI. Sources: Mrs P's record for MI; census records in Ancestry for ages and confirmation of dates of death.
   
  01 November 2017
  EAC
 

Persons named on this monument.

Hannah TODD  
Jane Fisher TODD  
Elizabeth Alice TODD  

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