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Maude Yarrow
Maude Yarrow.

Maude Yarrow
1899-2004

Maude Yarrow was the third of the fifteen known children of James Yarrow (a railwayman/station master) of Little Thetford and his wife Adelaide Bishop (a teacher).

At the age of twelve, she left school and took work in fruit picking, dressmaking, shop work, laundering and in between the War years, she became a mother and extended this mothering to care for three wartime evacuees who remained in contact with her until her death. She also worked hard as a railway porter at nearby Haddenham village station.

After marrying Ernest, the family lived at Wentworth, Wilburton, Haddenham and Witchford. Maude moved to Ely in early 2002.

Maude is one of the most well documented member of the Yarrow family, with the exception of perhaps her father's uncle William Yarrow. This is undoubtedly down to her long and tireless life and her being a keen letter writer, writing to her Granddaughter and other relations each week. She was someone without a shortage of stories and fond memories of her childhood with a life that spanned three centuries. She lived for 104 happy years, outliving her husband by 19 years, whom she married at Wilburton in 1929.


Further Details

Born:
2nd September 1899, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.

Married:

Children

Died:
9th May 2004, Ely, Cambridgeshire, aged 104 years old.

Buried:
25th May 2004 with her husband in Witchford churchyard, Cambridgeshire.


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