Actor & Playright - Help needed

[Mabel Bagshawe]

This is the London address details- she could have been at the Kent house? The probate register gives both the Bedford Square address, where he died, and  says he is also of St Margaret at Cliffe.

his wife's address is given as Attcliffe, St Margaret at Cliffe.

[wifeywebb]

I wonder if she was as the Kent address then. Didn't think to look for details of his wife so off on a mission, thank you x

[ShaunJ]

Per The Scotsman and The Aberdeen Journal of 21 January 1938, his Kent home was at Bloms, St Margarets at Cliffe.

The papers say that he left his entire estate to his widow.

Googling Bloms brings up an address:

 http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/bloms/the-droveway/st-margarets-bay/dover/ct15-6dj/5497814

[wifeywebb]

You lot are absolute stars. I'm hoping to solve the mystery soon for my 82 year old mum.

[Mabel Bagshawe]

i can see Gladys Daisy (sometimes vice versa), using the Hatt surname, with Frederick Chittleburgh before and after mid 1930s in the Guildford area

There's a Gladys Hatt registered in 1934 and 1935 at Cotlif, Lower Bourne and in 1936 at Mibia, Morley Road, Bourne.  this is in the Farnham district so not that far away.

I can't see anyone else registered at Cotlif (the register is in alphabetical order by surname) however Mibia appears to be the home of a retired army man called Archibald Smith Littlejohns.

No guarantee its the same person, but it is odd that these fit in with the 3 years Frederick Chittleburgh is minus his Gladys!

[Mabel Bagshawe]

OOOOOHHHH

1934 phone book. Cotlif, Bourne

Ian Forbes-Roberston!

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Ian F-R is brother to Johnston. Died 1936. also an actor

[wifeywebb]

So his death would fit with her going home? X

[Spidermonkey]

Looking at the probate index, IF-R left a will (probate granted to his daughter Beatrice).  You could get a copy of the will and see if your GM is mentioned.