An inquest held on 4 May 1929 by the coroner for the Isle of Ely recorded that 80-year-old Susannah Louisa Yeo had died by drowning. Her body had been found the previous day in the River Nene, which flows through the town.
Susannah’s death certificate records her as the wife of wheelwright Arthur Frederick Yeo of 3 Love Lane, Wisbech. No record of this marriage has been found and there appear to be no other records for Arthur. The couple have not been found on the 1921 census or in any other censuses for Cambridgeshire.
Susannah’s age at death, if correct, matches the birth of a Susanna Louisa Hall registered at Ely in the first quarter of 1846 and who married William Samuel Lilly in 1870. Might she and Arthur Frederick Yeo not have been married, and was his name recorded accurately when her death was registered?
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