Adelaide Bishop was the tenth of the fifteen children of James Simpson Bishop and his wife Ann Bowers of Wicken, although Adelaide was born in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, along with several of her siblings (her Grandmother was living in Burwell at the time, so this probably explains the connection).
When Adelaide was just twelve years old, her mother died, leaving the family of fifteen children (the youngest being no more than two years old) in the charge of her widower James, a labourer, and her childless sister Sarah and her husband George Farby.
Adelaide worked as an infant's school teacher at Little Thetford and taught many of the children important home making handicrafts like sewing and made a number of clothes for the children too.
She married James Yarrow, a railway worker at Little Thetford and the couple went on to have fifteen known children (although it has been said that there were another six that did not survive their infancy).
The family moved in 1899 to Wilburton and lived in the Station Cottages where James became Station Master. In the later wartime years, the family moved to Wilburton old Vicarage which still exists today with its stunning views across the fenland.
Born:
1877, Burwell, Cambridgeshire.
Died:
8th August 1965.
Buried:
with her husband in Wilburton cemetery, Cambridgeshire.