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Title: Telegram from queen
Post by: lidybut on Tuesday 23 February 21 15:28 GMT (UK)
My GG grandmother Hannah Turner maiden name Hodgkins, b1862 Staffordshire, d1960 died in Leicester, I know she received a telegram on her 100th birthday.  I remember seeing a paper cutting about it. Can anyone throw any light onto the cutting.
Many Thanks. 
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: carol8353 on Tuesday 23 February 21 15:33 GMT (UK)
You say she was born in 1862- so would have been 100 in 1962.

And yet she died in 1960.

The Queen wouldn't have sent a telegram to her if she'd already died?

Is this her death?

Name:   Hannah Turner
Death Age:   80
Registration Date:   June 1/4 of 1960
Registration Quarter:   Apr-May-Jun
Registration District:   Leicester
Volume:   3a
Page:   540
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 23 February 21 15:46 GMT (UK)
If she was living in Staffs in 1939 she was born 1862 but that doesn't mean she reached 100.  There is a 1955 death in Staffs

There is no Leics death of a 100yr + 

Re death above - if aged 80 - birthyear 1880
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 23 February 21 16:08 GMT (UK)
freebmd has a Hannah Hodgkins birth in March qtr 1863 Dudley.  If she was born late Nov/Dec 1862 it could be her birth reg but there is no Hodgkins marriage to a Turner unless she married more than once
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 23 February 21 16:28 GMT (UK)
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My GG grandmother Hannah Turner maiden name Hodgkins

Should that read Hannah Hodgkins maiden name Turner?

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/77221838/person/46464217327/facts
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: lidybut on Tuesday 23 February 21 18:24 GMT (UK)
Thank you for your time I'm going to have another look through this .
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 23 February 21 18:43 GMT (UK)
Deaths December qtr 1960   
HODGKINS    Hannah    98    Leicester    3a   526
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: Jebber on Tuesday 23 February 21 19:43 GMT (UK)
It could have been for a Dimond Wedding anniversary 60 years. It would have to have been applied for, anniversary telegrams, now cards, are not sent automatically like 100th Birthdays.
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 23 February 21 20:06 GMT (UK)
Marriages December qtr 1881 
HODGKINS George     Dudley    6c   157   
Turner    Anna     Dudley    6c   157

So their 60th would have been 1941 but George died before 1939
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: lidybut on Sunday 28 February 21 23:06 GMT (UK)
That's correct i got mixed up  with maiden and married name . I have been days searching  but found nothing Thank you for your kindness .
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 28 February 21 23:11 GMT (UK)
I don’t know what newspaper cutting you have seen but it cannot have been about a telegram for her 100th birthday

Is it possible a family member put a memorial in the newspaper on her 100th birthday?
Title: Re: Telegram from queen
Post by: lidybut on Thursday 04 March 21 22:01 GMT (UK)
Was definitely a telegram im thinking  could be another Hannah ?