The last burial (interment of ashes) recorded in Heene Cemetery was that of 84 year-old Miss Jessie Adela Burgess in March 1977. She was living in the Summerley Barn Hotel in Felpham, now a Residential Care Home, when she died. Her ashes were interred in her parents' grave. Jessie was born in Loughborough in 1894.
Her father, John Gulson Burgess was born in Knighton, a suburb of Leicester. His father, Alfred, was, in 1861, a Magistrate and Wool Stapler (a Dealer in Wool). .
In 1861 John G was a Wool Stapler, like his father.
In 1871 he was a Lodger in the Leicester household of Milliner Elizabeth Barfield. By then he had become an Elastic Web Manufacturer, employing several people.
Elastic Web Manufacture began in Leicester in 1839 when one Caleb Beddells, an inventor in the hosiery firm of Wheeler and Co. of the Abbey Mills, announced that he was about to commence the production of 'an improved caouchouc webbing' and opened a factory in Southgate Street. At first designed for use in braces, the new webbing was quickly adapted for the wrists of gloves and the tops of stockings, and in such articles as boots, fasteners for ladies' veils, hair nets and other garments.
By 1911 the family was in Narborough, about 7 miles away from Leicester. John was then retired. Jessie, Eustace, now a Solicitor's Articled Clerk, Philip, Machine Tool Engineer's Apprentice and Jessie Adela, all single, were there, plus a Cook and a Housemaid.
In 1939, at Belsize House, 4 Mill Road, Jessie Adela was doing Unpaid House Duties' in the home of her Mother, Jessie, who was living on private means. Also there was brother Eustace, now a Retired Solicitor. They also had a Cook and a Parlourmaid.
Jessie Ann died at Belsize House. Presumably Jessie Adela, then 45, continued to live there until she was older.