Morley Street – Radnor Street Cemetery

Today I am continuing the Uzzell family story with Thomas Henry Uzzell the son of that ‘country rogue’ David Uzzell and his wife Fanny.

By 1901 both David and Fanny and their son Thomas Henry were living in Swindon. Thomas had been here since 1897 when he married Eliza Pamela Fisher. The couple lived first at 23 Turner Street and then at Cambria Bridge Road before moving to 6 Morley Street. In 1911 Morley Street comprised more than 35 red brick terrace houses, home to railwaymen and their families and looked a little different then to now.

Their first child, Thomas Frederick Emmanuel died aged 15 months old at 23 Turner Street. He was buried in grave plot C814, a babies grave; one month old Charles Adams had been buried there just two days earlier. But, although this grave was never purchased by the Uzzell family it did end up the burial place of not only Thomas Henry but three more of their children.

Youngest daughter Mary May Doreen Uzzell was buried there on May 23, 1912 aged 11 months. The following year Thomas Henry himself died aged 39 years and was buried on April 12, 1913.

In 1919 David Henry Uzzell aged 20 was buried on October 22 with his father and two infant siblings. The last burial took place in 1938, that of Joseph Eli Uzzell, Thomas and Eliza’s 4^th child. Just two of their children survived to old age. George William died in 1977 in his 70s and Lizzie Kathleen who married Arthur Ponting and died in 1987 in her 80s.

In 1919 Eliza went on to marry again. Her second husband was Thomas Choules but her home remained at 6 Morley Street until the end of her life. Eliza died in 1943 and was buried in grave plot B1966 in Radnor Street Cemetery where she lies with Thomas Choules.