New CWGC Commemoration 04.01.19

[Terry Denham]

CWGC added the following casualty to the WW1 War Dead Roll today.

 

SUTCLIFFE, Zoe

Member

Voluntary Aid Detachment

Died 01.03.19  Age 30

Commemorated: United Kingdom Book of Remembrance

 

NOT FORGOTTEN

 

The above was an In From the Cold Project case.

-          Member Sutcliffe died of cerebral spinal fever (Volunteer: Chris Harley)

[chrisharley9]

May She Rest In Peace.

[bostonwayne]

Do we know where she may be buried.

[PRC]

Looks from the census record that she was the daughter of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, the Victorian pioneer Photographer associated with Whitby.

http://www.sutcliffe-gallery.co.uk/

She was born and grew up there, but although the birth record, (Q1 1889) and 1901 Census age of 11 almost agree, she is recorded by her father on the 1911 Census as 19 and a half !

The most likely death record is for a "26" year old Zoe Sutcliffe in the nearby Ripon District of Yorkshire. If she was in an isolation hospital she may have been buried there rather than returned to her home town.

 

He didn't die until 1941 but here's where he is buried, which may be a family plot.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2653528/st-margaret-churchyard

 

Cheers,

Peter

[chrisharley9]

She is buried in Ripon Cemetery.

[amc755]

Her grave is a rather sad affair. I photographed it this morning in Ripon Cemetery 

[amc755]

On 08/01/2019 at 22:43, PRC said:

Looks from the census record that she was the daughter of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, the Victorian pioneer Photographer associated with Whitby.

http://www.sutcliffe-gallery.co.uk/

She was born and grew up there, but although the birth record, (Q1 1889) and 1901 Census age of 11 almost agree, she is recorded by her father on the 1911 Census as 19 and a half !

The most likely death record is for a "26" year old Zoe Sutcliffe in the nearby Ripon District of Yorkshire. If she was in an isolation hospital she may have been buried there rather than returned to her home town.

 

He didn't die until 1941 but here's where he is buried, which may be a family plot.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2653528/st-margaret-churchyard

 

Cheers,

Peter

That's correct. Oddly she seemed to get younger as she got older ! Born 11.12 1888 according to baptism record but was born in 1893 at the time of her death. Her headstone suggests 11.12.1890. Very odd