Reference
AU10/64/6
Title
Letter from Charles Milner at Thornham [Norfolk] to John L.Marks:
- Charles Milner was churchwarden at Thornham and was answering on behalf of the incumbent; the burial register was in Norfolk Record Office but would record nothing more than the date of Ellen Russell Marks' burial;
- Ellen drowned at the same time as Edith Marie Elsum and the two were buried together, the headstone is of a cross with trailing ivy and two doves to the east of the church but was very overgrown;
- Edith was only child of William and Mary Elsum, in 1908 he was manager of Ames-Lyde Elsum & Company, makers of high quality wrought ironwork in Thornham;
- the story was that the two girls were inseparable companions and had been bathing from the granary wharf (since demolished) at the harbour; the Elsums were devastated and her room was left the way it was on the day she died until the family left the village in the 1920s
Date free text
22 Jun 2000
Production date
From: 1908 To: 2000
Level of description
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