Diana Sedgwick Bessant born c 1921

[mckha489]

The Official Gazette of the Country and Protectorate of Kenya - searchable issues online.
Found 1 Metherell hit against 7 Feb 1950 issue. Struggling to get results under "Search all issues"?

https://books.google.bs/books?id=GpDE_cEhXxwC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1950#all_issues_anchor

An advance to Charles Martin Metherell

https://books.google.bs/books?id=J4_jVZrZSBIC&q=Metherell#v=snippet&q=Metherell&f=false

[hanes teulu]

Also an entry against 3 July 1951 issue (2nd issue) for C M Metherell.

Note - I can find the items against individual issues (no problem) but wondered why the search facility "All Issues" doesn't return any hits. If it does search "All Issues" why can't I pick up the 2 already identified from checking single issues?

[ShaunJ]

Ancestry UK links for those 1951 and 1953 passenger lists, which serve to confirm that "Diana" was Ida Lilian.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2997/records/145293101

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2997/records/146185689

[ShaunJ]

Deleted - info already found

[hanes teulu]

Kenya Gazette, 17 Jun 1952 - page 651
https://books.google.bs/books?id=U6G8RE5bHZoC&q=claude#v=snippet&q=claude&f=false

[ShaunJ]

Report of Claude's death

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/23080146-2ddf-439e-88db-5a0fe79677ee

[softly softly]

Just wanted to say to all who have contributed to this post a big thanks. Not only is it a privilege to be a member of Rootschat (i consider myself part of "the team" of all who search on behalf of others.)This has been a great post to read and I believe answers found.  Would I be right in thinking that we have not found Ida's death.

SS

[ShaunJ]

No, we haven't found Ida's death

[ShaunJ]

Ida Lilian Metherell kept a flat in London until 1953 ( 401 Endsleigh Court, and then 675 Endsleigh Court). After 1953 she disappears from the electoral rolls.

Close to Regents Park (also mentioned in the marriage announcement "....of Morden and Regents Park").

Added: Full text of the 1947 marriage announcement in The Times:

METHERELL: SEDGWICK PRICE.-On Sept. 15. 1947, at Nakuru. Kenya Colony. CLAUDE MARTIN, Lieut.- Commander. R.N V.R.. late H.M.S. Cochrane. only son of the late Mr and Mrs. C. WARREN METIIERELL. of Southsea. to DIANA SEDGwICK PRICE. third daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Giles Bessant. of Morden. Surrey, and Regent's Park, London.