Record 11: The Burrell Household
The next record of Dunstable street is house number 20, home of the Burrell's.
Head: Francis Mark Burrell
Francis Mark Burrell was born in the St. Pancras area of London in 1879. The last child of Henry Burrell (1835-1910), a coachman, and his wife Elizabeth Jutton (1837-1915). Francis had 8 older siblings, James Henry (1865-1949), Emily (1869-), Rose (1869-1906), Beatrice Annie (1871-1940), Jessie Catherine (1873-1948), Philip Arthur (1875-1938), and George Frederick (1877-1949)
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| 20 Dunstable Street, c.1920s |
After attending school from around 1884 to 1892, Francis went into work as a provisional merchant. eventually moved to Croyden, Surrey. Here, Francis married Ellen Hurrell on the 13th of January 1907. By 1911, the couple had moved to Ampthill, and lived at 20 Dunstable Street. Here, the couple ran a small shop, selling confectionery and tobacco. This continued until WW1 broke out, and Francis returned to London, where he joined the London Regiment of the Territorial Force. Serving in the 9th Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles). He was injured, and died of his wounds while fighting on the Western front in France on the 24th of September 1918, aged 39.
Wife: Ellen Burrell (nee Hurrell)
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20 Dunstable Street
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Ellen Hurrell was born around 1868 in Wickhambrook, Suffolk. Her father, Henry Hurrell was a farmer. Although she was born in Suffolk, by the 1900's she lived in Croydon, Surrey. Here in 1907, she married Francis Burrell, who was ten years younger than her. The couple never had children, and it is unknown what Ellen did after husband's death during WW1. She doesn't appear to have remained in Ampthill after 1918, and she may have remarried sometime after.
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