Mary Ann Aldis (1794-1889)

Old Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham

A particularly fine tombstone at Plot 731, Old Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, commemorating Alfred Sidney ALDIS, son of Alfred and Christina, who died in 1941, and his wife Margaret Isabella (formerly BROWN) who died in 1962.

Many Aldis burials were in Old Maple Leaf Cemetery in Chatham. Martha Christina, Alfred’s young wife, is interred in Old Ward A, Plot 302, and her son Alfred Sidney, who died in 1941, in Plot 731. Salem Goldworth (known as Goldie S.), who also died young, is in Plot 317, as are his twin infant sons Harry E. and Harold E. Fortunately, he and wife Laura had three other children, including the aforementioned ‘Slim’, who survived.

A particularly fine tombstone is at Plot 731 commemorating Alfred Sidney ALDIS, son of Alfred and Christina, who died in 1941, and his wife Margaret Isabella (formerly BROWN) who died in 1962.

Other family photographs and early pictures of Chatham

Salem’s wife Victoria (far right front row), his daughter Mary (behind her) and other female relations. The only male in the photograph is Alfred. Taken around 1906- 1908

Charles Walter Aldis
He was born Walter Charles in 1880. This photograph was probably taken when he was about thirty years old.

Mary, Salem’s daughter, with her son William Harold Steadman ( b 1889) and daughter Lerien Hennerietta (b 1902)

Louisa A Aldis daughter of Salem (b 1878), with three of her children, Hildaguard, Treela and Leonora taken c 1912 - 1915