Ethel Catherine WOOLLETT
6th Dec 18891 - 17th Mar 1958
Life History
6th Dec 1889 |
Born in 13, Telham Road, East Ham, London..1 |
12th Feb 1890 |
Christened in St Mary Magdalene, East Ham, Essex..2 |
23rd Nov 1915 |
Married Samuel BEEBE in The Register Office, Winchester, Hampshire..3 [leswool.FTW] |
28th Sep 1919 |
Birth of son Leslie John BEEBE in registered Isle of Sheppey sub dist. Minster..1 |
19th May 1941 |
Death of son Leslie John BEEBE in Alexandria, Egypt. |
1958 |
Buried in Little Shelford Church, Cambs |
17th Mar 1958 |
Died in The Chequers Pub, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Suicide - overdose of barbiturates while balance of mind disturbed |
Other facts
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Birth of child Albert Samuel BEEBE |
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Birth of child Robert Clarence BEEBE |
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Birth of child Beatrice Irene BEEBE |
Notes
- Ethel Catherine, although on the birth certificate of her daughter Betty it shows Ethel Cathleen.
Ethel was brought up by a "spinster aunt" in Maidstone Kent according to Betty Sullivan who once, as a young girl aged 7 or 8, visited this maiden aunt with her mother. Betty describes the aunt as quite old and very victorian, Betty travelled to see her with her mother by train and was dressed very smartly with white gloves and hat which she was not allowed to get dirty. The maiden aunt did not seem to be married as no man was present. She was middle class and Betty had to be on her best behaviour, only speaking when spoken to.
Ethel may have been orphaned at the age of about 8 (about 1897).
She was the youngest of 3 sisters.
Betty thinks that she only had one brother.
Betty has a photograph of them.
Married in Winchester which is where Samuel was based with the Rifle Brigade. Marriage certificate shows living at ..?.. cottages, Sittingbourn.
Birth certificate XA303840
Ethel was evacuated from Enfield Lock to West Wickham near Linton in Cambridgeshire, she had a nervous breakdown. In the meantime Sam was looking for somewhere to live and rented a house at Goffs Oak while still working at the small arms factory in Enfield.
Ethel's death certificate copy 939746 entry 298. shows Catharine age 68.
Inquest held 11th April 1958. Death registered in Cambridge 17th April.
General Register for March quarter 1890 shows:
Woollett, Ethel Catherine, W.Ham 4a 211.
Birth was registered 26th February 1890 by her mother, Eliza, in Registration District West Ham, sub-district East Ham in the county of Essex.
The church of St Mary Magdalene, where Ethel and her brother John are known to have been baptised, is still standing in East Ham and although rather run down is quite a splendid building with one of the largest cemetaries in England, nearly ten acres, now a nature reserve. The church was built about 1130 and in the postal district of London is the only complete Norman building which was built as a parish church and is still used as such.
The 1901 census shows Ethel C. Woollett age 11 living at Butts (or Dutts?) Cottages, Sutton Valence, in the disrict of Hollingbourn, Kent. She is described as the niece of the head of household and born in East Ham.
The census shows the family as occupying 4 rooms. The head of the household is John R. Botting age 33, an ag lab born in Langley, Kent. His wife is Mary A., age 34 of Otham. Sons, George H. age 6 b. Langley, and Edward E. age 3 b. Sutton Valence, and daughter Ellen C. age 11 months also b. Sutton Valence.
It seems that following the death of her mother, Ethel may have gone to live with theBotting family. Although she is described as the niece I cannot see how they are related.
Sources
- 1. Taken from the Birth certificate
- 2. original parish record
- 3. taken from the Marriage certificate