Marian Boddy (buried 1941)

At a glance

At a glance
Surname: 
Boddy
First name: 
Marian
Other Christian names: 
Caroline Maude
Gender: 
Female
Children: 
Unknown
Burial number: 
1733
Born: 
27/12/1854
Died: 
13/04/1941
Buried: 
17/04/1941
Heene Hallmark: 
No
Commonwealth War Grave: 
No

The Grave

The grave
Cemetery area: 
NWS
Cemetery row: 
8
Cemetery plot: 
11
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Burial remains: 
Unknown
The headstone
Headstone inscription: 
"Jesu Mercy" Marian Caroline Maude Boddy 13th April 1941. Fanny Louisa Boddy 5th November 1926. Florence Gertrude Boddy 13th March 1930

Life story

Life story

Marian was the third daughter of  George Yatman Boddy and his wife, Eliza,to be buried at Heene.  The others were Fanny Louisa and Florence Gertrude. They did not marry and lived with their parents and after their deaths lived with each other. Presumably the daughters  looked after the family and took part in Parish affairs and found that satisfying. Marian was born on 27 December 1854 and  died in 1941 at 10, St.Michael's Road, Worthing, but the  address in her probate announcement was 22, Shakespeare Road, Worthing. She left £381 10s 1d to Margaret Wallace Statham widow. (It is rather touching that a person's estate should be calculated down to the last penny.)

N.B. Margaret, who married Richard Leicester Statham in 1923, was the daughter of Samuel Staffurth, who married  Edith Mary Wallace Boddy, a daughter of George Yatman  and Eliza Boddy and, therefore, the older sister of Fanny, Florence and Marian.

Burial researcher: 
Angela Levy

Further information

Birth
Date born: 
27/12/1854

Death

Death (details)
Date of death: 
13/04/1941
Age (at time of death): 
86
Cause of death: 
Unknown
Address at time of death: 
10 St Michael's Road, Worthing, Sussex, England
Personal effects
Executors: 
Margaret Wallace Statham status: Widow
Probate pounds: 
£381

Census and miscellaneous information

Census information
1871 census: 

26, Woolwich Common, Woolwich St Mary

Herbert G Boddy, 19, son, undergraduate Cambridge University; Marian C M Boddy, 16, daughter, scholar; Florence G Boddy, 15, daughter;

plus a cook and a housemaid

1881 census: 

The Vicarage , Lower Beeding, Sussex

George Yatman Boddy, head, 64, Vicar St Saviour; Eliza Boddy, 58, wife; Fanny L Boddy, 35, daughter; Maria C M Boddy, 26, daughter; Florence G Boddy, 25, daughter;

a cook and a housemaid

1891 census: 

Elmslie Villa , Tarring Street, West Tarring

George Y Boddy, 74, head, Clerk in Holy Orders Clergy; Eliza Boddy, 68, wife; Fanny L Boddy, 45, daughter; Marian C M Boddy, 36, daughter; Florence G Boddy, 35, daughter;

plus 1 house parlourmaid

1901 census: 

Elmslie, West Tarring,

George Y Boddy, 84, head, widower, clergyman Church of England; Fanny Boddy, 55, daughter; Marian Boddy, 45, daughter; Florence Boddy, 45, daughter;

plus a cook

1911 census: 

Elmslie, South Street, West Tarring

Fanny Boddy, 65, head, private means; Marian Boddy, 56, sister, private means; Florence Boddy, 55, sister, private means;

a cook and a housemaid

1939 register: 

22, Shakespeare Road, Worthing

Marian C Boddy, b 27 December 1854,  Unpaid Domestic Duties

Elizabeth Byrne, b 22 February 1855 domestic service

Ellen M     Basto b 23 April 1892 Unpaid Domestic Duties

Miscellaneous information

Ellen May Basto - daughter of Joseph Cooper and Annie Byrne

Ellen May Basto, née Cooper, born in Liverpool, the daughter of Joseph Cooper and Annie Byrne.  ( Portuguese  by marriage),  left Worthing in November 1939 aboard the  ‘Calchas’, of the Glen Line,  from London to Hong Kong to live  in China. Her husband, whom she married in 1912, Carlos Henrique de Senna Fernandes de Castro Basto, was born in Portugal in 1890 and died in 1944 while serving with the British Army Aid Group (BAAG) the role of which was to assist prisoners of war and internees to escape from the Imperial Japanese Army’s camps. He is buried in the Stanley Military Cemetery in Hong Kong.