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Default Ellen Rose Gibbs ( OH’s father’s mother)

Name - "official" name and what they were known as – Ellen Rose Gibbs, known as Rose

Date and place of birth – 9 March 1881, Gosport, Hampshire

Names of parents – Henry and Ann (nee Ayshford) Gibbs

Details of each of his or her marriages – to Joseph Spiller Seldon on 15 April 1911 at St Lukes Church, West Norwood, London.

Occupation(s) – Domestic Servant, Dressmaker, Laundress etc.

Military service - none

Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on, if applicable.
1881 – 7 Union Place, Alverstoke, Hampshire
1891 – Bampton Street, Tiverton, Devon
1901 - The Cot, Aldwick Road, Pagham, West Sussex
1911 - 19 St Cloud Road, Norwood, London

After she was widowed in 1918, Rose and her two sons lived at various addresses in Herne Hill, Streatham and Norwood, all in London. At the start of WW2 she returned to Devon to live as she felt it was safer than London. In 1942 she returned to South London/ Surrey to live with her younger son, his wife and her newborn grandson in Morden where she stayed until her death.


Date, place and cause of death – 27 January 1951 at her younger son's home in Morden, Surrey of heart disease.

Date and place of burial – 1 February 1951, Garth Road Cemetery, Morden, Surrey.

Details of will / administration of their estate – not known

Memorial inscription – not known


Rose Seldon (and friend!), taken about 1938
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