Ellen Comfort Weight
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Birth: 1880, Rochdale, Lancashire
Died: 27 June 1964, Altrincham, Cheshire
Cremated: 1 July 1964, Altrincham Crematorium, Cheshire
BIOGRAPHY:
Ellen Comfort Weight (Nellie) was born in 1880 to Ellen Comfort and William Weight in Rochdale, Lancashire. Her parents moved from East Sussex some time between 1876 and 1880 to Rochdale where they remained for the rest of their lives.
The 1881 census shows Ellen living with her parents and her elder sister Alice Maud Mary Weight at 38 Maldon Street, Castleton, Lancashire. Her father William was working at the time as a solicitors general clerk.
Between 1891 and 1901 Ellen, her brother Edward Thomas Sellens Weight, sister Alice Maud Mary Weight and parents are living at 364 Bury Road, Rochdale where William is working as a solicitors clerk.
364 Bury Road, Rochdale, 2003
Sometime after 1901 the family moved to 21 Marne Crescent in Rochdale where William and his wife Ellen remained all their lives. Their two daughters Alice and Ellen remained unmarried and lived at home with their parents with Ellen working as a teacher.
21 Marne Crescent, Rochdale, 2003
Ellen was interested in the Dengate family tree and in 1935 and 1936 wrote to the Reverend William Alfred Dengate at his parish of Staplefield, West Sussex requesting any information he had pertaining to the Dengate family. Among the information imparted by Ellen of her great great grandfather James Dengate was, "My mother's great grandfather appeared to have lived at one time in the neighbourhood of Wrotham, Kent and was known to be rather extravagant keeping his own hounds for hunting..." These two letters and the Rev. William Alfred Dengate's reply have been passed to me by the late Miss Daphne Dengate, daughter of William Alfred Dengate.
Ellen's father William died 15th March 1924 and was buried 19 March 1924 in Rochdale Cemetery. His wife Ellen died 23 November 1940 and was buried 26 November 1940 with her husband in Rochdale Cemetery. Alice Maud Mary Weight died at 21 Marne Crescent in April 1956 and was buried 17 April 1956 with her parents in Rochdale Cemetery.
Ellen lived for a time at the end of her life at Bickham House, Green Walk, Bowden in Altrincham, Cheshire - a home for the elderly. She died aged 84 of a brain haemorrhage at 20 Park Avenue, Altrincham on the 27 June 1964. She was cremated at Altrincham Cemetery and her name added to the book of remembrance. At her request, her name was also entered on the family grave in Rochdale.
Weight grave, Rochdale Cemetery, Lancashire, 2003
The grave inscription reads, "In Loving memory of William, the beloved husband of Ellen Comfort Weight, who passed March 15 1924, aged 73 years. Also of Ellen Comfort Weight, his beloved wife, who passed away on November 23 1940, aged 87 years. [on one side] Also Maud, the beloved daughter of the aforesaid who passed April 13 1956. [on other side] Also of Ellen Comfort, a beloved daughter cremated Altrincham, Cheshire July 1 1964"
In her will Ellen bequeaths legacies to her sister-in-law Mary Hannah Weight three hundred pounds and any furniture or other articles she may desire, to the Reverend Llewellyn Weight one hundred pounds, to her cousin Miss Rose Sellens one hundred and fifty pounds, to Miss Kate Harris one hundred pounds, to Mrs Frances Murton fifty pounds, to Mrs Louie Heath, fifty pounds and to the trustees of the Castle Mere Methodist Chapel of Rochdale one hundred pounds in the memory of her sister Alice.
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