And all this time I’ve had not just one but two old photographs of the cemetery sitting in my archives. Several years ago Rose kindly gave me some documents and photographs relating to family burials in Radnor Street Cemetery. Among them are two photos of grave C1177 – one taken at the time of a funeral and another some time later when the headstone was in place. But a headstone doesn’t always tell the whole story!
It is likely this plot was originally a public grave. The first burial to take place here was that of Emily Ridlinton in 1903.
The Jefferies family probably bought the plot in 1922 upon the death of Daisy Louisa Jefferies. Daisy was the first wife of Reginald Harold Jefferies and was 27 years old when she died at her home, 43 St Mary’s Grove. She was buried in plot C1177 on November 15.
In 1924 Reginald married Violet Ruby Hillier and when the wartime census was compiled in 1939 they were living at 43 St. Mary’s Grove with their 11 year old daughter Beryl. Although Reginald had previously worked as a machineman he describes his occupation in 1939 as Music Teacher. At the outbreak of war he was also an ARP Warden.
Further research is required to discover what happened to Violet, but in 1951 Reginald married for a third time. His bride was Dorothea E.M. Keylock, the daughter of William Barnes Keylock and granddaughter of William John White Keylock. Reginald was 59 and Ruby 50, but although this was rather a late marriage for both of them it lasted for 18 years until Dorothea died in 1969. Reginald died the following year.
Radnor Street Cemetery 
Was Ruby their daughter
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Hi Sue – Violet Ruby was Reginald’s wife and Beryl Ruby was their daughter.
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hello sue. My name is Gregory John Whitaker (grandson of Violet Ruby and son of Beryl) I am American and live in Ocala Florida. I called my grandmother “nanny” because she was a nanny to 2 families in Louisville KY. She passed away in 1983 in Louisville. Her last name was Cook and remarried from Reginald Jefferies, in Swindon,to Henry Cook,in Louisville,in about 1951. Henry was a member of the Shriners and passed before I was born in 1957. What would you like to know?
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