find my godmother

[private78245]

where to start to find my godmother. I only know her as Miss Spackman. She lived at 4 to 14 Broadway,Earlsdon,Coventry in the 1940/50s. In her will she left me some war bonds.
The problem i have is without a first name how can i trace her death,will,etc.
Could i learn anything from my christening details?

[PaulineJ]

Maybe.
When (what year) did you receive the inheritance?

[groom]

where to start to find my godmother. I only know her as Miss Spackman. She lived at 4 to 14 Broadway,Earlsdon,Coventry in the 1940/50s. In her will she left me some war bonds.
The problem i have is without a first name how can i trace her death,will,etc.
Could i learn anything from my christening details?

As a starting point, as Pauline said, how old were you when you received the bonds? As there was a will you could then try looking on the Government Probate site around that date. Luckily it isn't a very common name.

https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate

[groom]

There is this death in Coventry - too late?

Deaths Sep 1976 
SPACKMAN    BARBARA   birth  21 Oct 1910   
COVENTRY    33   325


She was living at 5 Page Road, Coventry when she died. (from probate site)

[Girl Guide]

Barbara Spackman is listed as a single lady in the 1939 Register living in Liverpool, same dob as the death that Groom found.

[private78245]

Hi, I think that it must have been in the fifties. I was born 1941. my father who died 1961, unknown to me cashed the bonds and spent the money. I would guess that miss Spackman died in the mid fifties, so it seems that the will would be the best way to start? Any other ideas?

[Girl Guide]

Another way to check would be to get an electoral roll check of the address that you have for her.  Pick say 1950 and ask the Coventry Archives if they could check the address for you.

Contact details:-

Email:  historycentre@culturecoventry.com

Telephone: 024 7623 7583

You may have to pay a fee for the search but it should give you her first name.

[Liz_in_Sussex]

Hi,

Beatrice Maud Spackman - she was listed on FindMyPast as Packman but is definitely the same Spackman lady that was living in Earlsdon   

Liz

[Girl Guide]

If that is the right lady she would have been quite old for a godmother.

SPACKMAN, BEATRICE  MAUDE     WHEATLEY     
GRO Reference: 1877  M Quarter in BRADFORD WILTS  Volume 05A  Page 141

She would be about 64 at the time of the poster's birth.