Notes
Note for: Madge Hanavan, UNKNOWN - UNKNOWN Index
Madge was the last to die.
Notes
Note for: Irene Lonsdale, UNKNOWN - Index
Went up North, possibly Liverpool, may have married a policeman or
something like that, maybe a prison warden in London. They had a little
daughter.
Possibly married in Kings Cross area.
Notes
Note for: Samuel Beebe, 16 NOV 1890 - 7 JUL 1959 Index
Birth certificate copy application no. 47017 ref B21820 entry 186
Registered in Winchester in county of Southampton.
Birth was registered by John Haysman, Master of Union Workhouse,
Winchester on Dec 3rd. Mother given as Ellen Beebe formerly Smith of
Winchester and father as Silas Beebe, a horsebreaker.
The Union Workhouse in Winchester is now St Pauls geriatric hospital and
Winchester Public Records Office has all the records of admissions etc
for 1800's onward. They also have the 1891 census.
Marriage certificate shows address as Rifle Depot, Winchester.
Regular Army Certificate of Service:
Army no 6905277 enlisted at Canterbury on 20th October 1908 in Rifle
Brigade.
"Military Conduct: exemplary.
Testimonial: Sergt. Beebe is absolutely honest, sober and reliable, and
is fitted for a position of trust. He possesses unusual mechanical
ability with highly specialised knowledge of automatic weapons. He is an
excellent marksman with any weapon and a strong and tactful
disciplinarian."
Date of discharge 17th May 1934 after 25 years and 210 days service.
Served in France 8 Sept 1914 to 25 June 1915 and 27 Oct 1917 to 22 Dec
1917
Wounded in the thigh.
Various medals.
Sam lived at Enfield Lock and worked at Enfield Small Arms factory as a
'proof master' from about 1934 until the outbreak, or first year, of the
second world war. The houses at Enfield lock were evacuated as the small
arms factory was a prime target for German bombing raids. Sam moved to
rented accommodation in Goffs Oak and some time later the houses at
Enfield Lock were bombed. He left work at the small arms factory,
applied to Green King (brewers) for a pub and took over at The Chequers
public house in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. During latter part of
war he joined the Home Guard at Shelford and until the end of the war
also worked as an aircraft inspector at Marshalls in Cambridge.
Although the building is still there it is no longer a pub (currently a
chinese take-away 1995) and is only 100 yards from Little Shelford church
where Sam and his wife Ethel are buried in the same grave.
After Ethels death at The Chequers Sam lived with his son Bert and wife
Molly in Feltwell for about 10 months before moving to 7 Jones Road,
Goffs Oak, with his daughter Betty and her husband Ron. About 8 weeks
after moving in Sam had a severe stroke and died later in hospital.
Copy of death certificate no. 194795 issued to his son Robert Clarence
Beebe.
Notes
Note for: Ethel Catherine Woollett, 6 DEC 1889 - 17 MAR 1958 Index
Ethel Catherine, although on the birth certificate of her daughter Betty
it shows Ethel Cathleen.
Ethel was brought up by a "spinster aunt" in Maidstone Kent according to
Betty Sullivan who once, as a young girl aged 7 or 8, visited this maiden
aunt with her mother. Betty describes the aunt as quite old and very
victorian, Betty travelled to see her with her mother by train and was
dressed very smartly with white gloves and hat which she was not allowed
to get dirty. The maiden aunt did not seem to be married as no man was
present. She was middle class and Betty had to be on her best behaviour,
only speaking when spoken to.
Ethel may have been orphaned at the age of about 8 (about 1897).
She was the youngest of 3 sisters.
Betty thinks that she only had one brother.
Betty has a photograph of them.
Married in Winchester which is where Samuel was based with the Rifle
Brigade. Marriage certificate shows living at ..?.. cottages,
Sittingbourn.
Birth certificate XA303840
Ethel was evacuated from Enfield Lock to West Wickham near Linton in
Cambridgeshire, she had a nervous breakdown. In the meantime Sam was
looking for somewhere to live and rented a house at Goffs Oak while still
working at the small arms factory in Enfield.
Ethel's death certificate copy 939746 entry 298. shows Catharine age 68.
Inquest held 11th April 1958. Death registered in Cambridge 17th April.
General Register for March quarter 1890 shows:
Woollett, Ethel Catherine, W.Ham 4a 211.
Birth was registered 26th February 1890 by her mother, Eliza, in
Registration District West Ham, sub-district East Ham in the county of
Essex.
The church of St Mary Magdalene, where Ethel and her brother John are
known to have been baptised, is still standing in East Ham and although
rather run down is quite a splendid building with one of the largest
cemetaries in England, nearly ten acres, now a nature reserve. The
church was built about 1130 and in the postal district of London is the
only complete Norman building which was built as a parish church and is
still used as such.