Census & Service Families

[Joy45]

Probate calendar

Rose Ethel Drury widow 147 High Road who is believed to have been killed through war operations on 16 Nov 1940 £402 0s 11d

named Margaret Ruth Waite wife of Maurice Vernon Waite.

Joy

[jennifer c]

ST Mary Hornsey Rise 25/12/1909
Alfred John Drury 24 Bootmaker 4 Sunnyside Road father Thomas- Farrier
Rose Ethel Lancester 19 same address father William Edward - Shopwright

Witnesses E.Lancaster & FG Lancaster & L.Goat

St.Andrew Haverstock Hill Camden 10/7/`887
Alfred John Drury parents Ruth & Thomas Drury occ. Farrier address 33 Warden Road.

Jennifer

[Joy45]

Probate Calendar

Alfred John Drury same as his wife left £506 9s 3d.

Joy

[jennifer c]

1891 census 33 Warden Raod
Thomas Drury 38 Farrier/Smith Camden Town
Ruth 33 Buckinghamshire
Walter 12
George 8
Alf. 4
Emma 18 months  all born Camden Town

1901 High Street Esher
Alfred Drury 15 apprentice Bootmaker born Camden Town  ( Boarder)

Jennifer

[Joy45]

Marriage

Margaret R Drury 1937 Sept Q Barnet 3a 2391
Maurice V Waite

So could be a daughter of your couple.

Joy
             

[jennifer c]

1881 censu 18 Newberry Mews
Thomas 29 Farrier
Ruth 24
Walter 1
Margaret 53 mother Launderess
Jane 27 sister  All born Pancras

1.5.1915 death Walter Frederick Drury Flanders (Gunner)

Married 25/12/1904 St.Andrews H.H
Lilian Mabel Lancaster
Same details as before so looks as though two brothers married two sisters.

Jennifer

[KGarrad]

I have been looking at the Medal Rolls on Ancestry, and seacrhing the London Gazette, but I can't find a mention of any Military Medal?

If you have a look at this thread, it might explain about the MM?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,458254.20.html

[Coffee Lover]

aged 52 & 50 respectively (BMD records their ages as 53 & 51 which confuses me since I would have thought that both would use the same base record!). 

There is no such thing as a "base record"!
Ages on death certificates are those given by the informer.

I have been trying to post since this one!!!

Who might have reported death in the blitz?

I meant that I thought that the death certificate would have been the source record and therefore the common reference point.

[KGarrad]

The informant usually has to be one of:

    someone present at the death
    someone in attendance
    the occupier of a house
    the master or keeper of an institution
    a person who found the body
    inmate of a house or institution - this was a person living at the same address who knew of the event
    person causing the burial
    person in charge of the body

Normally it is a relative, or someone at the hospital or nursing home where the decesed died.

In this case there was unlikely to be a relative?