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

BESSIE LILLIAN READ

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
BESSIE LILLIAN READ
(LITTLE TOT)
DIED DEC 15TH 1900
AGED 8 YEARS
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SHE BELONGS TO JESUS
AND IS GONE WITH HIM
TO DWELL.
The only records we initially found for Bessie gave her date of birth and death and did not include her parents names. However, we understand from Doug Read, who played an active role in the chapel, that she was his father 's sister.
Based on this Bessie, known to her family as Little Tot, was born to James (a woodman in the New Forest) and Annie (nee Lambert) in 1892, the eldest of their six children. The family lived on Main Road, East Boldre just south of the school fields site.
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