Birth: 13 October 1896 Willesden, Middlesex, UK
Father: William Balkwill Luke 1857-1930
Mother: Edith Rosa Bourne 1869-1948
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: October-December 1977 St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
None known
Birth of Helen Grace Luke in FreeBMD in October-December 1896 in Hendon (3a 212) which included Willesden until 1909.
In the 1901 census as Helen Luke aged 4, born in Willesden, Middlesex, and living with her parents (William and Edith), brother (Frederick), sister (Mary), a visitor (Kate Pilbeam aged 37, born in St Pancras, London, widowed and a trained monthly nurse), and two servants (Emma Carter aged 16, born in Plaistow, Essex and a nurse, and Ellen James aged 22, born in Torrington, Devon and a general servant, both single) at Leinster Lodge, Leinster Road, Willesden, Middlesex.
In the 1911 census as Helen Grace Luke aged 14, born in Willesden, Middlesex, and living with her parents (William Balkwill and Edith Rosa), brother (Frederic Alen Balkwill) and a servant (Margaret Langgrith aged 24, born in Germany, single and a domestic housemaid) in nine rooms at 12 Leinster Road, Kilburn N W, Middlesex.
She was an executor of her father's will who died on 28 September 1930 leaving effects of £8280 14s. 11d.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Helen Luke aged 31 departed London on 21 August 1928 on the Morea Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd for Marseilles accompanied by Frederick Luke aged 27 and a superintendant, address of both Leinster Lodge, Leinster Road NW1 and for Helen Luke aged 34 and a welfare worker, address 12 Leinster Road NW6 embarked London on 31 July 1931 on the Rampura, Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd for Marseilles.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Helen G Luke aged 31, departed Yokohama, Japan, via Kobe, Shanghai, Colombo, Suez, and Plymouth, on the Rawalpindi, Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd arriving London 24 August 1928, accompanied by Frederick Luke aged 27, a clerk, address of both Leinster Lodge, Leinster Road, London, and for Helen Grace Luke aged 31 and a spinster, departed Durban South Africa on the Windsor Castle Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd via Cape Town arriving Southampton on 26 August 1929, accompanied by Frederick Alan Luke (brother?) aged 31 and a manager, address for both 12 Leinster ? ? NW6, and for Helen G Luke aged 34, departed Yokohama, Japan, via Kobe, Shanghai, Colombo, Bombay, Suez, and Plymouth, on the Rawalpindi, Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd arriving London 21 August 1931, address 12 Leinster Road, London, NE 6.
Five entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Helen Grace Luke address 12 Leinster Road, Kilburn NW6 in 1929 to 1934, other occupants William Balkwill Luke (father?) in 1929, Edith Rosa Luke (mother?), Frederick Alan Balwill Luke in 1929 and 1931, and Alice Sarah Lewis in 1933 and 1934, and 48 Ossulton Way, Finchley N2 in 1935, other occupants Edith Rosa Luke (mother?) and Alice Sarah Lewis, and two entries for Helen G Luke address 50 Ossulton Way, Finchley N2 in 1949 and 1950, other occupants in 1949 Irene Foulton, and Paul and Joan Louise Richards.
There are 21 entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for Miss H G Luke in 1949 to 1976, address 50 Ossulton Way N12 number TURdor 2160 in 1949, 53 Brooklands Rise N11 MEAdway 2656 in 1952 and 1953, and 16 St JamesStreet, Shaftsbury 2601 in 1955 to 1976.
Her mother died on 1 October 1948 and left effects of £6677 7s 5d. to Helen Grace Luke spinster and Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke, her brother.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Helen Grace Luke, born on 13 October 1896, in October-December 1977 in St Albans (10 0561).
Paul Hughes has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Helen Luke, born in 1897 in Willesden, Middlesex, parents William and Edith Luke.
Helen Grace Luke was the granddaughter of Frederick William Bourne, husband of Adelaide Chalcraft, my fifth cousin three times removed.
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