On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:09:17 +0000, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: >On 30/01/2015 16:15, Bob Campbell via wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Subject: looking for a Violet GEARY death registered in Surrey post >> 1980 to compare birthdates >> _If_ she didn't move from Croydon and died in the burgh then it should show up as Greater London rather than Surrey. The England and Wales wills index (https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills) has:- Violet May GEARY of Cosham, Hants in 1993 Violet Freda GEARY died 29 Jan 1996 There could be others where Violet is given as a middle name. >> I am trying to track down the last possible location for a Violet >> GEARY. What I do know about Violet IF she is mine........ born Violet >> CAMPBELL at Woolwich 12th July 1901 Shown in the 1911 census as a 9 >> year old at a Catholic Orphanage at Croydon Surrey. by the process of >> elimination there is a POSSIBLE marriage to Arthur W.C GEARY >> registered in the June 1/4 of 1919 by which time she would be 17 the >> couple had 5 children between 1920 and 1931 all born at Croydon. The >> registration of her husband Arthur William C. GEARY's death in 1969 >> at Surrey S.E. >> That will be somewhere around Reigate, Oxted, Caterham etc. :- http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/surrey%20south%20eastern.html There is no PRFD index entry for him in 1969-1970 which could be either because there was no/small estate or because assets were jointly owned with a spouse. Someone on Ancestry has that death claimed for Arthur Cyril GEARY, married to Violet CAMPBELL. >>No "most likely death registered for Violet any where >> on FreeBMD after 1969 , and likewise no second marriage. >> Both surnames (maiden/married) ? There is a Croydon district marriage for a Violet I GEARY :- Name: Leonard W Loveland Spouse Surname: Geary Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1940 Registration district: Croydon Inferred County: Surrey Volume Number: 2a Page Number: 2343 and these two deaths :- Violet Loveland 1899 Sep 1992 Surrey South-western Violet L Loveland abt 1902 Sep 1947 Surrey South Western the second one would match if "I" was actually "L" (or vice versa) and the death was before her birthday. >> Any help >> would be appreciated >> >Any chance she was the Violet Campbell, aged 11, who was shipped out to >Canada in 1913 aboard the Corsican? The large number of unaccompanied >(ie not with family) children suggests it was taking "British Home >Children" (I think they were called that) to Quebec. A very likely >outcome for a child in orphanage at that time.