Rosa HARROLD (1871-1971)

Rosa HARROLD was born in 1871 in Thrandiston the daughter of Charles HARROLD (an agricultural labourer) and Betsy HARROLD.    She was baptised at St Margaret’s Church in Thrandeston.

In the 1881 Census she was living with her parents at Mellis Road in Thrandeston.

Rosa HAROLD married Edward Abbott at St Margaret’s Church Thrandeston in 1891.    It is interesting to note that Rosa signed her name Rosa HARROLD and that Charles HAROLD could not write his name.

By the time of the 1901 Census her Mother had just died and she was still living at Mellis Road with both her Father and her husband Edward Abbott (aged 32) and their two children (Rosa born in 1892 and Herbert born in 1894).

Sadly her son Herbert, a private in the 1st/5th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, died aged 24 on 22 February 1918.    He is buried in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt and his name is on the War Memorial by the gate of St Margaret’s Church in Thrandeston.

In 1919 her daughter Rosa married George Frederick Boast.    She died in 1979 at Botesdale, Norfolk.

In March 1971, only months from her 100th birthday, Rosa died in Blythburgh and District Hospital.    On the death certificate it states that she was the 'Widow of Edward Abbot Platelayer British Rail' and her address is given as 'The Old Post Office Thrandeston Diss'.    An Official from the Hospital registered her death.    The Thrandeston Burial Register states that Rosa Abbott, of Mellis Road, Thrandeston was buried in March 1971, aged 99.

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