i am trying to fill in the missing years of Maud Elizabeth Whitfield (D.O.B. 03/09/1906) from leaving school, but particularly, after the end of WW1 1918 - up to 1937. She disappeared off the radar, after leaving school, until she Married Patrick Mc Callan in Middlesbrough, N. Yorkshire in April, 1938.
She had a Single sister Florence Edith Whitfield who died of cancer in Wakefield Jan 1924.
Father - Albert Whitfield, died in Auckland 1931. aged 72.
Mother Mary Jane Whitfield (nee Peel) died in Auckland about 1931 - aged 67? "Choked on fish bone?" family tale (!) not proven.
There was an older brother Herbert Alfred Whitfield (1886 -1974) SERVING IN England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in WW1; He Lived in Wylam Street, Middlesbrough; LATER in Chiswick East; and in Middlesex whom Maude E. Whitfield may have stayed with for a while. Herbert Alfred Whitefield later moved to 168 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex in 1958. Herbert Alfred (known as ALF, was a Civil Servant), died in Darlington.
Maud Elizabeth Whitfield, "Had a fear of Workhouses and The Police"., She had an older sister Annie Whitfield - a trained cook and (single). Her financee died in WW1. She died in Winterton Mental Hospital, Sedgefield (previous workhouse?) approx 1968. She never married. Annie looked after two single brothers until they married -Plus a nephew - until they eventually left the Home in St. Johns Road, Shildon in late 1950's/early 60's. None of the family would accept responsibility for Annie , after she had been living on her own for years and lonely....
Can anyone throw any light on tracing the missing years of Maud Elizabeth Whitfield please?
Did she any more children before she married the Irishman? Did she spend time in prison or Workhouse? Where did she work? All help and advice gratefully appreciated.
So many questions and no answers.
