Arabella, beloved wife of C E Plumridge, died Jan 9 1918 age 54.
AND the above mentioned
Charles Edward Plumridge died February 22 1942 age 77
This grave is in Marlow Cemetery.
Above, Jenny, devoted wife of A T Plumridge died Jan 22 1928 age 45. Also Arthur Thomas Plumridge b 1882 d 1971. This Grave is in Marlow Cemetery.
Further Information:
Charles was a bricklayer and builder, one of a vast number of local Plumridge men to have that profession in the last few hundred years. For example his father James and grandfather William also had this role. William was also the landlord of the White Hart Inn in Chapel Street and man responsible for building the Wheatsheaf. Beer-selling was the second favourite historic Plumridge occupation! Charles married Wiltshire born Arabella in 1888. She had moved to Buckinghamshire to work as a housemaid. They lived at "New Road" in the spring of 1891 - a term that has applied to more than one Marlow road in the past but in their case very likely refers to what we now call Claremont Road. In December of that year, the couple's address is given as Lily Cottage, Glade Rd. Lily Cottage is later referred to as located within Claremont Rd - it was by no means unusual for homes in the Claremont area to be referred to as Glade Rd as Glade Rd was developed first and the other road names came with more development around it so the two addresses may in fact be the same. Lily Cottage was the setting for a frightening incident for Arabella in late 1891. She was home alone one evening, waiting up for husband Charles to come home, when she suddenly heard footsteps on the floor above. She had heard no one come in, and when the footsteps began to descend the stairs, she fled the house in panic. Arabella took refuge with a neighbour until Charles returned at 9.30pm. He lit a candle and made a search of the house only to discover a clock had been taken from a bedroom. The night was so dark and the area still mostly unlit, that despite a neighbour accidentally bumping into the intruder on his way out, and the neighbours daughter hearing him approach the house earlier, no one could positively identify the criminal. A Maidenhead man staying at a Dean Street lodging house was initially arrested as he matched the description of a suspicious character lurking around Glade Rd earlier. There was no actual evidence he was responsible though, and the case was dismissed. But the experience of Charles and Arabella caused the local magistrates to make an appeal for locals to lock their side doors as Arabella admitted both this and their front door were left unfastened. It also helped secure more public lighting for the area ..albeit a little slow in coming! Later the couple would move to no 6 Station Rise.
Charles was a member of the Marlow branch of the Bucks Rifle Volunteers and a keen footballer.
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