Joyce GILES

Joyce GILES(Joy TATTERSALL, CLARK)

1916 – 1992 · 29 Maiden Lane, Strand, London, Middlesex, WC2E 7JS
Partner: Arthur TATTERSALL · Partner: John CLARK
👶Birth
13/10/1916
🏛️ First World War
29 Maiden Lane, Strand, London, Middlesex, WC2E 7JS 📍 Birth Certificate 📎 Birth Cert
Baptism
03/12/1916
🏛️ Battle of the Somme
St Paul's Church, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, Middlesex 📍 Baptism Certificate 📎 Baptism

Sponsors: Henry Thomas Giles, Gwendolyn Grace Giles and Blanche Winifred Chapman

🏠Lived (5)
1921
🏛️ Irish Free State established
121 Alderney Street, Pimlico, London, Greater London 📍 1921 Census 📎 Census
Confirmation (16)
03/05/1932
🏛️ Great Depression
St Michael's Church, Chester Square, Belgravia, London, Greater London, SW1W 9EF 📍

Inscription inside a book "Helps to Worship":

Joyce Giles
In memory of her Confirmation at St Michael's Chester Square on Tuesday May 3rd 1932.
From
Charles ?Kew

🏠Lived (23)
1939
🏛️ Second World War
47 Derek Avenue, Wallington, Surrey 📍 1939 NHS Register 📎 1939 Register
💼Occupation (23)
1939
Floral Artist 1939 NHS Register
💼Occupation
bet 23/09/1941 and 28/01/1943
Royal Air Force Telephonist 📎 Image

She is described on her discharge certificate as 5ft 4inches of fresh complexion, grey eyes and light brown hair with no scars or marks and an excellent air woman in every way.

💒Marriage (26)
24/10/1942
Arthur TATTERSALL
Holy Trinity Church, Maldon Road, Wallington, London, Surrey, SM6 8BL 📍
🏠Lived (35)
from 30/05/1951
🏛️ Festival of Britain
3a Trafalgar Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 📍
with Arthur TATTERSALL
Sold on 07/11/1955 📎 Document
🏠Lived (39)
from 07/11/1955
Rothay, 34 Aughton Road, Southport, Lancashire, PR8 2AG 📍
with Arthur TATTERSALL 📎 Document
💼Occupation (50)
09/03/1966
🏛️ England wins the World Cup
Member of Woman Freemasons 📎 Document
🏠Lived (52)
from 01/02/1968
Clifton, 11 College Close, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 📍
with Arthur TATTERSALL
Sold for £11,000 on 13/06/1972 📎 Document 📎 Document 📎 Document 📎 Image 📎 Document 📎 Document

Purchase Price £7,150 with a mortgage of £4,000

💔Separation (53)
09/04/1969
🏛️ Moon landing
with Arthur TATTERSALL
💒Marriage (55)
04/12/1971
🏛️ Decimalisation of currency
John CLARK
Southport Town Hall Registry Office, Lord Street, Southport, Lancashire 📍 Marriage Civil Registration Index
Ref: Southport 10f 1210
📎 Marriage Cert 📎 Marriage Cert
💔Divorce (55)
02/12/1971
with Arthur TATTERSALL 📎 Document 📎 Document 📎 Document
🏠Lived (73)
20/07/1989
🏛️ Fall of the Berlin Wall
4 Mudehaven Court, 64 Mudeford, Christchurch, Dorset 📍
with John CLARK
📝Will (73)
20/07/1989
Will 📎 Will

Legacies free of all taxes:

Husband John Clark - £1000

Grandson James Giles Tattersall - French Marble Clock (Codicil of 6th May 1990 changed legacy to her son David) - [This now with James Tattersall. Antiques Roadshow described the clock as Louis 16th from Paris 1785. Original movement silk. Top and gilt hands not original. Value £2,500-£5,500]

Daughter Gillian Handley - Silver Tea Service and her five Stone Dimond Ring and remainder of her jewellery not specified together with all

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🏠Lived (74)
06/05/1990
🏛️ Poll Tax riots
4 Mudehaven Court, 64 Mudeford, Christchurch, Dorset 📍
with John CLARK
🏠Lived (76)
1992
5 Howe Close, Mudeford, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 JA3 📍
with John CLARK
✝️Death (76)
28/09/1992
Sanderling (Strathallan Nursing Home, Nuffield Hospital), 3 Owls Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset 📍
1a. Cardiac failure b. Ischaemic heart disease Death Certificate 📎 Death Cert 📎 Image 📎 Death Cert
🪦Burial
05/10/1992
Christchurch Cemetery, Jumpers Road, Christchurch, Dorset 📍
Lawns Section Grave Number NN10 Christchurch Cemetery
Tel: 01202 495000
📎 Grave 📎 Image 📎 Image 📎 Image 📎 Image 📎 Image 📎 Image 📎 Image 📎 Photo 📎 Photo 🔗 Grave

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JOYCE CLARK
(NEE GILES)
13-10-16 - 28-9-92

JOHN CLARK
31-5-1913 - 7-4-2011

⚖️Probate
22/12/1992
Winchester, Hampshire 📍 Grant of Probate 📎 Probate 📎 Probate

Joyce Clark of 5 Howe Close, Mudeford, Christchurch, Dorset died on 28th September 1992. Probate Winchester 22nd December 1992 to John Clark of 5 Howe Close aforesaid. Gross value of the estate does not exceed £125000 and the net value does not exceed £40000

Children with Arthur TATTERSALL
Notes

David Tattersall son of Arthur and Joyce Tattersall writes :-

"My mother (Joy) was born in Maiden Lane (now all office blocks) which qualified her to call herself a genuine London Cockney (a person born within the sound of Bow bells). Joy worked as a florist for Moyses Stephens, still the royal florists, and frequently worked at Buckingham Palace and other royal locations. There was a story in the London Evening Standard newspaper about her being up a ladder decorating one of the London rail

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Witness of her Death: John CLARK
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