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Gladys Winifred Mary Smoothy, born 22 May 1893 at 21 Compton Terrace, Richmond, Surrey. Mother Emma Smoothy, formerly Broad. Father: John David Robert Smoothy, journeyman wood turner. Informant John D.R. Smoothy, 21 Compton Terrace, Mortlake Road, Richmond, Surrey. Christening 25 Jun 1893 St Mary Magdalene, Richmond, Surrey Gladys Winifred Mary Smoothy, daur of John David Robert & Emma. Father's occupation wood turner. Abode: 21 Compton Terrace, Mortlake Rd. [Gladys' father had been baptised in this church and he was a church sidesman there for many years] 1901 RG13/ 679 26 p.3 5 Manor Grove, Richmond, Surrey John D. Smoothy, 32 a turner b Richmond, Surrey Emma Smoothy, 33, wife, b. Cornwall Gladys W.M. Smoothy, daughter, 7 scholar b Richmond, Surrey + 2 unrelated lodgers Gladys' mother died when Gladys was 11. Her father remarried 4 years later to Marian Augusta Pitney. Gladys went into domestic service when she was 14. 1911 5 Manor Grove [5 rooms] John Smoothy 42 wood turner Marian Smoothy 38 married 2 years Gladys Smoothy 17 [no occupation listed] Eva Irvine 22 dressmaker Gladys worked for a family at Ladbroke Grove and then for the private household of the doctor at The Priory, Roehampton. During WW1, another servant, Edith, persuaded her to write to a soldier, cousin of Edith's husband Frank Smith. This cousin was Angus Williams, her future husband. Whilst they were courting, they spent time in Putney Park, at Woking, and Sipson. Addresses at which Gladys was living, information from Angus' letters to her Aug 1919 c/o Mrs Twinn [Gladys's cousin Bessie Twinn, nee Vine] 23 Buckingham Street, Brighton Sussex Nov 1919 Dorcas Ward, St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Aug 1920 Treviledor Farm, Mawgan, Cornwall [her maternal uncle's farm] Sep 1921 Treviledor, Goldsworth Road, Woking [named after the farm, the home of a maternal aunt] Marriage 22 Sep 1923 [Gladys's parents had married on the same day, in 1890] St. Leonards, Hythe, Kent Angus Williams, 26, bacehlor, motor driver, 5 Coastguard Cottages, Hythe, father Charles Williams, labourer Gladys Winifred Mary Smoothy, 30, spinster, 3 Mount Street, Hythe, father John David Robert Smoothy, wood turner. They lived at Cobden Road and Park Road Hythe for the first few years of their marriage, Angus worked as a shoe repairer. Their children were all born at these address: Ruth Smoothy 1924 Rita Mary 1923 John Angus 1927 Norman Edwin 1930 But in the 1930s, Angus lost this job and was never regularly in work again until WW2. The family lived at various addresses in Kent: Lymbridge Green, Stelling Minnis, Stowting and Wye. They moved from Silks Farm, Ashford to 3 Subdown Cottages, East Brabourne, a council house with a range in the front room for cooking, and a copper for washing in the back room. After Angus' death, Gladys moved to a bungalow at 6, Sandy Place, Smeeth, Kent. She moved to Gore Hill House, Ashford, an old people's home, in her early 90s. Here she had her hair permed and worried that it made her look "fast" and also rejected breakfast in bed as it was "slummocky". Death 20 Jan 1990, at Gore Hill House, Canterbury Road, Ashford Gladys Winifred Mary Williams, of 1 a myocardial degeneration b pneumonia c influenza Gladys was cremated.
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire Last edited by Nell; 05-10-13 at 14:38. Reason: to add baptism details |
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