Laura Theresa LOOSMORE

Laura Theresa LOOSMORE(GILES)

1878 – 1963 · Chard, Somerset
Father: Francis LOOSMORE · Mother: Martha BRICE
👶Birth
03/02/1878
🏛️ Electric street lighting in London
Chard, Somerset 📍 Free BMD
Ref: 5c 424 Chard
Birth Civil Registration Index
🏠Lived (3)
1881
Kings Arms Inn, Chard, Somerset 📍 1881 Census
💼Occupation (3)
1881
Scholar 1881 Census
💒Marriage (24)
30/06/1902
🏛️ Second Boer War
Walter John GILES
Chard, Somerset 📍 Free BMD
Ref: 5c 659 Chard
Obtained correct name of wife
Christine Fearnley
📎 Photo
🏠Lived (33)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
1 Livingstone Villas, Crewkerne Road, Chard, Somerset 📍
with Walter John GILES 1911 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (43)
1921
🏛️ Irish Free State established
1 Livingstone Villas, Crewkerne Road, Chard, Somerset 📍
with Walter John GILES 1921 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (53)
1931
🏛️ Great Depression
1 Livingstone Villas, Crewkerne Road, Chard, Somerset 📍
with Walter John GILES Kellys Directory
Found in Chard Library
🏠Lived (61)
1939
🏛️ Second World War
1 Livingstone Villas, Crewkerne Road, Chard, Somerset 📍
with Walter John GILES 📎 1939 Register
✝️Death (85)
11/05/1963
🏛️ Beeching cuts
Chard, Somerset 📍 Grave Headstone
🪦Burial
16/05/1963
Chard Cemetery, Zembard Lane, Chard, Somerset, TA20 1JL 📍
Grave C128 Burial Records
of Chard Town Hall
📎 Grave 🔗 Grave

Grave C128 (next to other family graves C138 & C148) was purchased by Mrs Giles of Livingstone Villas, Chard on 7th June 1945.

Grave Headstone:

In loving memory of
Walter John Giles
who died 5th June 1945
aged 69 years

and his beloved wife
Laura Theresa Giles
who died 11th May 1963
aged 85 years

Children with Walter John GILES
Thomas Francis GILES
b. 1904, Chard, Somerset · d. 1975, 22 Priory Crescent, Wembley, London, Middlesex, HA0 2QQ · m. 1935 Kathleen Mary BROWN
Margaret Muriel GILES
b. 1914, 1 Livingstone Villas, Crewkerne Road, Chard, Somerset · d. 1981, 48 Bure Park, Bure Lane, Christchurch, Dorset
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