During WW1 Clara Garbutt was employed as a munitions worker by John Baker & Co Ltd at Kilnhurst. On the night of the 12th April 1918 an air raid warning was issued on the factory. The lights were turned off as Clara and her friend Ella Howitt attempted to make their way home via a canal side path. It appears they lost their footing in the dark and fell arm in arm into the canal. When they didn't return home. The canal was dragged and their bodies were eventually recovered two days later. Their names are remembered on a memorial inside the church of Saint Andrew the Apostle at Bolton on Dearne.
Clara Beatrice Garbutt was born in the Autumn of 1880. She was baptised at the church of St. Andrew the Apostle on the 19th December 1880. She was the second surviving daughter and child of George Ratcliffe and Harriet Ratcliffe nee Cutt. During her 20s she worked for time as a live in domestic servant and cook for a local draper named Mary Naylor. Clara wed Bernard Garbutt in about 1903, they went on to have three children, two of whom sadly died in infancy. The marriage was short lived and the couple separated after only three years together. By 1911 Clara and her surviving daughter Olive were living with her parents at 10 Angel Street.
After her body was recovered it was taken to the house of her sister, Sarah Elizabeth Draper, at Swinton. On 17th April 1918 Clara was buried next to her friend and work colleague Ella Howitt. Her parents were later buried in the same grave.
Clara Beatrice Garbutt was born in the Autumn of 1880. She was baptised at the church of St. Andrew the Apostle on the 19th December 1880. She was the second surviving daughter and child of George Ratcliffe and Harriet Ratcliffe nee Cutt. During her 20s she worked for time as a live in domestic servant and cook for a local draper named Mary Naylor. Clara wed Bernard Garbutt in about 1903, they went on to have three children, two of whom sadly died in infancy. The marriage was short lived and the couple separated after only three years together. By 1911 Clara and her surviving daughter Olive were living with her parents at 10 Angel Street.
After her body was recovered it was taken to the house of her sister, Sarah Elizabeth Draper, at Swinton. On 17th April 1918 Clara was buried next to her friend and work colleague Ella Howitt. Her parents were later buried in the same grave.
During WW1 Clara Garbutt was employed as a munitions worker by John Baker & Co Ltd at Kilnhurst. On the night of the 12th April 1918 an air raid warning was issued on the factory. The lights were turned off as Clara and her friend Ella Howitt attempted to make their way home via a canal side path. It appears they lost their footing in the dark and fell arm in arm into the canal. When they didn't return home. The canal was dragged and their bodies were eventually recovered two days later. Their names are remembered on a memorial inside the church of Saint Andrew the Apostle at Bolton on Dearne.
Clara Beatrice Garbutt was born in the Autumn of 1880. She was baptised at the church of St. Andrew the Apostle on the 19th December 1880. She was the second surviving daughter and child of George Ratcliffe and Harriet Ratcliffe nee Cutt. During her 20s she worked for time as a live in domestic servant and cook for a local draper named Mary Naylor. Clara wed Bernard Garbutt in about 1903, they went on to have three children, two of whom sadly died in infancy. The marriage was short lived and the couple separated after only three years together. By 1911 Clara and her surviving daughter Olive were living with her parents at 10 Angel Street.
After her body was recovered it was taken to the house of her sister, Sarah Elizabeth Draper, at Swinton. On 17th April 1918 Clara was buried next to her friend and work colleague Ella Howitt. Her parents were later buried in the same grave.
Clara Beatrice Garbutt was born in the Autumn of 1880. She was baptised at the church of St. Andrew the Apostle on the 19th December 1880. She was the second surviving daughter and child of George Ratcliffe and Harriet Ratcliffe nee Cutt. During her 20s she worked for time as a live in domestic servant and cook for a local draper named Mary Naylor. Clara wed Bernard Garbutt in about 1903, they went on to have three children, two of whom sadly died in infancy. The marriage was short lived and the couple separated after only three years together. By 1911 Clara and her surviving daughter Olive were living with her parents at 10 Angel Street.
After her body was recovered it was taken to the house of her sister, Sarah Elizabeth Draper, at Swinton. On 17th April 1918 Clara was buried next to her friend and work colleague Ella Howitt. Her parents were later buried in the same grave.
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