IN MEMORIAM
HENRY FOSTER BLUNSOM
THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF
EMMA BLUNSOM
WHO DIED SEP 4TH 1913
AGE 40 YEARS
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WHEN THE DAY OF TOIL IS DONE
WHEN THE RACE OF LIFE IS RUN
FATHER, GRANT THY WEARIED ONE
REST FOR EVERMORE
ALSO IN MEMORY OF
EMMA
DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
REUNITED ON JULY 6TH 1948
AGED 70 YEARS
ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF THY LORD
Henry Foster Blunsom was born
about 1874 in Desborough, the second child of
Henry Blunsom and
Eliza Panter. In the
1901 census he is shown only as "Foster Blunsom". "Foster" was the maiden name
of his paternal grandmother.
Henry's wife Emma
was the third of eight known children of
Henry Murkitt and
Susannah Monk.
.
Emma was born about 1878.
One of Emma's brothers,
Harry, enlisted in
the army in September 1914 at the age of 34, but was discharged 3 months
later as being medically unfit. Another brother,
William, joined
the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in July 1917, was taken ill in December
and died of Bronchio-pneumonia on 20th December 1917. One of Emma's nephews,
Frederick William
Murkett, was killed in action in France in 1918.