William Roseblade was born in Leicester in November 1882 to Frederick Roseblade who was a ticket writer and his wife Frances (nee Coates) - known as Fanny. He was the second of their five children.By 1909 he had moved to 22, Mowbray Street Coventry, and had been married to Annie Tarratt since Christmas Day 1906. William was employed as a carpenter and joiner.
There were three children of the marriage: Henry Frederick (1909-1996), Annie Cicely (1918-2017) and Marian Elizabeth (1925-2014).
William was a talented artist who was a founder member of the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists. He painted Coventry street scenes early in the morning before going to work as a carpenter, which "gave his paintings a misty quality", according to an exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery in 2012. He continued to paint until in his eighties; he died in September 1967 in Coventry and was buried on 22 September.
Also commemorated here, though buried at Jeffcock Road Cemetery, Wolverhampton, is his wife
Annie Elizabeth Sherfy Tarratt who was born on 11 September 1880 in Islington, London; her father was a Leicestershire man, but was working at St Pancras as a railway goods checker. When she died on 26 December 1940 the family home was still in Mowbray Street Coventry, where William was working as a carpenter and joiner. Their son Henry was a furnishing manager, Annie Cicely a secretary and Marian a schoolgirl.
Annie Cicely's name was added to the gravestone after her death in 2017.