| 👶 Birth | 11 Mar 1892 | Hythe, Folkestone, Kent 📍 📎 View |
| ⛪ Baptism | 19 Apr 1892 | St Leonard Church, Old Walk, Hythe, Kent, CT21 5DN 📍 ⓘBaptism Records 📎 View |
| 🏠 Lived | 1901 (9) | 30 High Street, Hythe, Kent 📍 ⓘ1901 Census 📎 View 🏛️ Second Boer War · Death of Queen Victoria — Edward VII accedes |
| 🏠 Lived | 1911 (19) | 2 Sillwood Place, St. John's Road, Crowborough, Sussex 📍 📎 View 🏛️ National Insurance Act |
| 💼 Occupation | 1911 (19) | School Mistriss at County Council |
| 💒 Marriage | 05 Sep 1914 (22) | Ivor Arscott AMBROSE Parish Church of Withyham St John, East Grinstead, Sussex 📍 📎 View 📎 View 🏛️ First World War |
| 🏠 Lived | 1939 (47) | Merriwinds, 37 Hillcrest Gardens, Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey 📍 with Ivor Arscott AMBROSE 📎 View 🏛️ Second World War |
| 🏠 Lived | 1948 (56) | Vanderbilt Hotel, Cromwell Road, London, Middlesex 📍 Her address obtained from newspaper clipping of son Geoffrey marriage in 1948 🏛️ National Health Service launches · Empire Windrush arrives |
| ✝️ Death | 26 May 1976 (84) | Ellsfolly, 18 Caswell Avenue, Newton, Swansea, Glamorganshire 📍 Cancer She died in her bed at home |
| 🪦 Burial | 16 Jun 1976 (84) | Epping Cemetery, Lower Bury Street, Epping, Essex 📍 Grave Number Y3 📎 View 🔗 View Her ashes are buried in the grave. |
| 🔥 Cremation | 29 May 1976 (84) | Swansea Crematorium, Morriston, Swansea, Glamorganshire 📍 Description: Cremation Number 41057 She was aged 84. Address: 18 Caswell Avenue. Minister: R. Evans |
| ⚖️ Probate | 01 Jul 1976 (84) | Bristol, Gloucestershire 📍 Effects: £56509 📎 View 📎 View |
Children with Ivor Arscott AMBROSE
b. 1916, Cardiff, Glamorganshire · d. 1994, Sancta Maria Hospital, Swansea, Glamorganshire · m. Gwladys Margaret THOMAS
b. 1919, Bella Vista, Glanmor Road, Swansea, Glamorganshire · d. 1940, Stapleford, Essex
Notes
From David Tattersall:-
"My grandfather V. A "Roger" Giles always said, rather disdainfully, that my great aunt Laura first met her future husband Mr Ambrose on the seafront at either Brighton or Bournemouth, the popular English southcoast resorts (the suggestion being that it was a pretty casual meeting, what we might today call a pick-up!!!).
I suspect that he said this as something of a contrast to the fact that she clearly married into money and lived what must have been a very comfortabl… Show more
"My grandfather V. A "Roger" Giles always said, rather disdainfully, that my great aunt Laura first met her future husband Mr Ambrose on the seafront at either Brighton or Bournemouth, the popular English southcoast resorts (the suggestion being that it was a pretty casual meeting, what we might today call a pick-up!!!).
I suspect that he said this as something of a contrast to the fact that she clearly married into money and lived what must have been a very comfortabl… Show more
Documents & photographs
📎 PhotoChapman William Fuller Family Photo Blanche Sarah Laura Giles Victor with Harrie (right)-Colorized
📎 PhotoChapman William Fuller Family Photo Blanche Sarah Laura with Ambrose Ivor & Harrie
📎 PhotoChapman Harrie Mansell Postcard to Laura
📎 PhotoChapman William Fuller Family Photo Blanche Sarah Laura Giles Victor with Harrie (right)
📎 PhotoDocument
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