Diana Sedgwick Bessant born c 1921

[Cockneyrebel]

Thank you very much for all your excellent research; at least we know that she was born in South Africa but did she have any children with Claude as he is my direct relation and when and where did she die?
Cr

[softly softly]

Info only, probable deaths


BESSANT, ROBERT  JAMES     1919 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q2/2013 in KENT  (564-1Y)  Entry Number 508335547 (mother Florence ?)


BESSANT, ROBERT  JAMES C    1919 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q2/2013 in KENT  (564-1Y)  Entry Number 508335547  (MMN Bowley)

SS

[jonwarrn]

No sign of Florence or the mysterious S.M.B

Could Florence have been White, not Bowley?
Robert C (Charles) Bowley married Florence C (Charlotte) White in Wandsworth in 1911

Birth
BOWLEY, SHELIA  MONICA MARGARET    
Mother's Maiden Surname: WHITE 
GRO Reference: 1912  M Quarter in WANDSWORTH  Volume 01D  Page 1366

WW1 & pension records, etc., that I don't have, for Robert Charles Bowley, he died in 1916
I can see from pensions preview that his widow is Florence Bessent (or Bessant?)

CWGC says
Son of the late Henry William Bowley and Louisa Bowley; husband of the late Florence Bowley.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2894309/robert-charles-bowley/

[jonwarrn]

Catholic marriages   
Battersea West, Sacred Heart, 23 December 1911
Robertum Carolum Bowley + Florentiam Charlotte White (filiam Caroli White)

Baptism
28 January 1912, Wandsworth East Hill, St Mary Magdalen
Shelia Monica M Bowley
Born 26 December 1911
Parents Roberti Caroli + Florence C (olim White)

S.M.B.
Maybe B for Bowley?

[jonwarrn]

Death in Cornwall, 1992
Sheila Monica M Pool
d-o-b 26 Dec 1911

Burial (Ashes interred) 15 April 1992, Liskeard
Sheila Monica Margaret Pool
Age 80
Image
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GGFT-9X49

Sheila seems to have married first Eric C Brooker in Wandsworth in 1939.
Then Malcolm Pool in 1948 in Surrey.

[ShaunJ]

at least we know that she was born in South Africa

I don't think so!  I think we can forget about Diana the daughter of Doris and John Howard Eldridge Besant. Nothing really matches up with the marriage announcement.

" ...Diana Sedgwick Price the third daughter of RH Giles Bessant of Morden..."

I think we should focus on Ida, the third daughter of Robert Henry Bessant of Morden. Her mother used Giles as a middle name.

Ida married George Frederick Price whose father's middle name was Sedgwick. SO we have ticks in all these boxes:

• Sedgwick
  Price
  RH
  Giles
  Bessant
  Morden
  Third daughter

Ida travelled to Cape Town in January 1947

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2997/images/41039_b001607-01007

[ShaunJ]

Ida's separation from George Price, 1936:

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/9609559c-11e8-4c0a-9304-88065b7e65e0

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/e501b3dc-37f4-4bcc-9e54-15bde8c24026

One of these describes her as an actress. On her return from South Africa in March 1936 she is described as an export buyer; similarly on her outward journey in 1947. 

[hanes teulu]

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

[mckha489]

1951 passenger list

Mrs I. L. Metherell
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01tw5/

And 1953
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01tw6/