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By the by, for those of you who have contributed to this thread or might simply have had a read of it, I finally paid my £3 to the GRO for an image of Beatrice SNAITH’s birth certificate.  As mentioned on here earlier the entry originally had been mistranscribed in their lists for Sept q 1892 as SMITH, but SNAITH it was, but no mention of the middle name of Muriel which mysteriously appears on the birth certificate of her second son George Keith in 1927.
In my own mother’s family, my gt-grandma Annie Laura was given just those two forenames as a baby, but on her death certificate (and headstone on her grave) she has acquired the extra forename of Leila.  Which was what two year old twins could only manage to call her by when she lived in their household much later on in her life.
DOB for Beatrice, btw, given as 25th June 1892, so that 24th June assumption for either 1893 or 1894 was almost bang on the money…
Keith

Many thanks for taking the time to focus on this request of mine, Roobarb, and also to Maddys2 for turning up that important fragment of the report that very much gives the gist of what was a tragic accident.  Will try and see whether I can get to see the whole article…
Keith

Dundee,
I greatly fear that I have rather ignored your considered post earlier on this thread, busily chasing my own tail and coming face to face with nothing but dead ends.  I’ve looked back at that 1939 Electoral Roll entry and see that Beatrice gives her birth date as June 24th 1893, whereas the GRO death entry in 1973 it is a 24th June 1894 entry. 
Very recent input from a family memory suggests strongly that the West Hartlepool location could well be where Beatrice started life.  Entirely possible then, if with that August 1892 baptism, Beatrice could well have come into the world on the 24th June - but in 1892.  Perhaps need to send away for that birth cert now.
With confusion in later years about the exact year of her birth, but day and month somehow clearly marked and remembered…
Keith

Great, Neale, so nobody travelled very far to get on with the next stage in their lives…
Keith

Hi again Jen B!
And in almost record response time too, you are most probably right on the money with that suggestion.  Many thanks…
Keith
Can I also ask if Greta Bridge is far away from Richmond, which was where the first of Christopher and Sarah ROBINSON’s five children was born, before the next four were birthed in Richmond?