In
Loving Memory of
WILLIAM BURDITT,
WHO DIED
MAY 29TH 1893.
Aged 62 Years
ALSO OF
ELLEN, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JULY 13th 1905.
AGED 70 YEARS.
"HER END WAS PEACE."
ALSO OF SAMUEL & WILLIAM HOWARD
CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED IN INFANCY
"BE YE ALSO READY FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE
THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN COMETH."
William Burditt was born in 1830, the eldest (known) child of
Ebenezer Burditt and
Elizabeth Hanger.
Ellen was born in 1835, the seventh (known) child of Thomas
and Mary Ginns. Ellen and William were married in 1855 and went on to have ten children.
William was a silk weaver in his youth, but in the 1860s moved into the shoe trade. Ellen was an
embroideress in her teens and a lace runner in her twenties.