Elsie Dewsbury was the seventh of the nince children of Henry James Dewsbury, a publican and miller of Little Thetford and his wife Mahalah Randall.
Elsie's birth certificate shows her father's surname spelt as Dewsbery, a common variant of the surname. The large Dewsbury family lived at The Water Mill in Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire and the family operated the Mill and the Chain Ferry.
Elsie married Walter Claydon, a veteran of the First World War and one of the "Old Contemptibles". He had moved to Canada before the war and served in the Canadian Army but returned to the UK and was transferred to The Suffolk Regiment. Walter was 13 years older than Elsie.
Elsie suffered from a mental illness during her adult life and hospital records indicate that she spent quite some time there from April 1940 onwards.
Born:
1893, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.
Died
3rd June 1957, after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage, aged 63 years.
Buried
7th June 1957, Newmarket Road Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.