BURRELL, Catherine Matilda

1847 - 1930

As Catherine Matilda Halls, she was baptised at Denham, Suffolk on 8 August 1847, daughter of Joseph Edwin Halls (24 February 1821-28 January 1858), a farmer, and his wife Matilda née Stutter (bapt 24 June 1825-5 February 1867), youngest daughter of Jeremiah Stutter of Flempton, who married at St James's Church, Bury St Edmund's on 1 February 1845. Catherine married at Saffron Walden, Essex on 11 December 1873, Robert Burrell (17 July 1834-15 November 1923). In 1881, a 33-year-old, living at 3 Honey Hill, Bury St Edmund's with her 46-year-old husband Robert, a chemical manufacturer & landowner, who was born at Westley St Mary, near Bury St Edmund's. As Mrs R. Burrell, she exhibited at the Bury & West Suffolk Fine Art Society in 1881 'The Stepping-Stones'. By 1891 her husband, a landowner, had taken over the family estate and they were living at Westley Hall and were still living there in 1921. Her husband died at Westley Hall in 1923 and as Katharine Matilda Burrell, she died at Westley Hall, Bury St Edmund's on 21 July 1930, aged 83, they had no issue.