

Operated by East Boldre Community Stores Limited, a voluntary organisation.
Owned by it members, predominantly local people.
Community Benefit Society, number 8481

LYDIA WALLIS

IN MEMORY OF
LYDIA
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
SAMUEL WALLIS
WHO AFTER SEVERE
AND PROTRACTED SUFFERING
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
6TH JUNE 1862
AGED 65 YEARS
--
"HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY."
Lydia Phillips was born in 1793 in Beaulieu to Michael and Elizabeth (nee Tinsley), the eldest of their ten children. The family lived at Manor Bank Cottage and were relatively prosperous, owning an additional 16 acres, three cottages and running a shop.
Lydia married Samuel Wallis on 11th November 1816 at Boldre church. The 1818 baptismal record of Edmund, the eldest of their , shows them living at Ramnor Cottage and Samuel as the Keeper of the enclosure. The cottage is no longer there but there is a small plot with a well presumably the site of the cottage (outlined in red below).

The 1851 census shows they are still living and working there with their two daughters Mary (26) and Elizabeth (10).
By 1861 Lydia and Samuel are living in East Boldre with daughter Elizabeth (listed as 'idiot' in the census).
Lydia was buried at the chapel on 11th June 1862 by William Blake.
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