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BESSIE LILLIAN READ

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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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