Diana Sedgwick Bessant born c 1921

[Cockneyrebel]

I'm a tad confused was she Blanche Diana or Ida Lilian?
Cr

[ShaunJ]

I'm a tad confused was she Blanche Diana or Ida Lilian?

I believe we've established that "Diana" was Ida Lilian, 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

"Diana" in the Times marriage announcement may be a typo.  She was I L Metherell on passenger lists, and Ida Lilian Metherell on London electoral registers up to 1953.

[Cockneyrebel]

According to a family tree on Anc she married George Frederick Price 23 Aug 1924 Mitcham. They separated in April 1936. There are 2 newspaper articles on FindMyPast regarding the separation, so did she marry Claude bigamously or get a quick divorce? If she married in 1924 she must have been born earlier than 1919?
Cr

[ShaunJ]

If she married in 1924 she must have been born earlier than 1919?

Ida was born in 1902.

[ShaunJ]

Another report on the Price separation, on the front page of the Daily Mirror, 30 April 1936.

Ida tells the reporter that her bus conductor husband comes from a noble family - titled.

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/679b567a-ab46-4d0d-9b5c-78649a8e1d2a

[mckha489]

I saw that too. She must have married him for his looks. 😀

[softly softly]

I saw that too. She must have married him for his looks. 😀

Or he had a golden ticket

SS

[*Sandra*]

Daily Herald
London, London, England
Thu, 30 Apr 1936
Page 7

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-herald/178066788/

[Cockneyrebel]

Thank you all for your superb research, Ida being an actress obviously didn't know who she was, playing one part then another, similarly with her names!
Cr