In
Loving
Memory
of
WILLIAM WOODFIELD TAILBY
DIED APRIL 17TH 1903
AGED 77 YEARS
Also of
EMILY TRESSA CLARKE
WIFE OF WILLIAM CLARKE
AND SISTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED DEC 28TH 1891
AGED 53 YEARS
"TRUSTING IN JESUS"
William Woodfield Tailby was born in 1825, the fourth (known)
child of John Tailby and
Rebecca Woodfield. He, like his father and two
brothers, was a butcher.
John Tailby died in 1854. By 1861 Rebecca was a farmer as well as running the Swan Inn. William was living
with her.
Emily was the twelfth known child of John and Rebecca. She married
William Clarke in 1867 but by 1881
she was widowed. She returned home to Desborough to become her brother William's housekeeper at the Swan
Inn, which he had taken over after their mother's death.