Birth: 23/24 September 1904 St Pancras, London, UK
Father: David Baker 1868-1939
Mother: Fanny Deadman 1863-1917
Marriage: 16 October 1927 Saint Andrew, Fulham, London, UK
Husband: Harold Edward John Lancaster 1901-1967
Death: 28 December 1972 33 Wordsworth, Great Hollands, Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
Barbara Anne Lancaster [Shew] 1929-2000
Marjorie M Lancaster [Boome] 1931-a1967
David William Charles Lancaster 1943-1944
Birth of Gladys May Baker in FreeBMD in October-December 1904 in Pancras (1B 16). Her sister (Dorothy Norah) is on the same page so I assume they were twins.
In the 1911 census as Gladys Baker aged 6, born in St Pancras and living with her parents (David and Fanny), two brothers (Frank and William), and three sisters (Beatrice, Dorothy, and Margaret) in four rooms at 61 St Olafs Road, Fulham, London S W.
Her mother died in Kensington in 1917.
In the 1921 census as Gladys Baker born in London in 1904 and living with David Baker (father?), and Beatrice, Dorothy and Elsie Baker (sisters?) in Fulham, London, Middlesex.
Marriage of Gladys M Baker and Harold E J Lancaster in FreeBMD in October-December 1927 in Fulham (1A 735).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage of Gladys May Baker,aged 23, father David Baker, and Harold Edward John Lancaster on 16 October 1927 at Saint Andrew, West Kensington, Saint Andrew's Road, Hammersmith and Fulham. "Page 15 1927 Marriage solemnized at St Andrews Church in the Parish of Fulham in the County of London. [No.] 29 16th October 1927 Harold Edward John Lancaster [aged] 26 [a] Bachilor [and] Civil Servan [of] 74 Musard Road Fulham [father] William Lancaster Fishmonger [and] Gladys MMay Baker [aged] 23 [a] Spinster of 74 Musard Road Fulham [father] David Baker [a] Cinema Attendent. Married in the Church of St Andrew according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England after Banns [...] in the Presence of us David Baker, C R Lancaster, Robert J V Lancaster [and] Alice Elizabeth Lancaster".
Her daughter was registered in Fulham in 1929.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Gladys May Lancaster address 18b Peabody Buildings SW6, Fulham in 1930, other occupants Harold Edward John Lancaster (husband?), David Baker (father?), and Dorothy Norah Baker (sister?).
Her daughter was registered in Fulham in 1931.
Seven entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Gladys May Lancaster address 138 Winchcombe Road, St Helier, Carshalton from 1933 to 1939, other occupant Harold Edward John Lancaster (husband?).
Six entries in Ancestry Sutton, Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1931-1970 for Gladys May Lancaster address 138 Winchcombe Road, St Helier, Carshalton from 1933 to 1938, other occupant Harold Edward John Lancaster (husband?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Gladys M Lancaster born 24 September 1854 (sic - in the index, 1904 on the original), married, and living with Hareld E J Lancaster (husband?), Barbara A Lancaster (daughter?) and two others at 138 Winchcombe Road, Carshalton, Surrey.
Her son was born in Chesterfield on 25 December 1943 and died in Banstead on 21 April 1944.
Nineteen entries in Ancestry Sutton, Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1931-1970 for Gladys M Lancaster address 138 Winchcombe Road, St Helier, Carshalton from 1951 to 1968, other occupant Harold E J Lancaster (husband?) to 1968, Barbara A Lancaster (daughter?) from 1951 to 1953, Majorie M Lancaster (daughter?) from 1952 to 1953, William and Marjorie M Boome (son-in-law and daughter?) from 1954 to 1956, and another family in 1961.
Her husband died at 138 Wigmore Road, Carshalton on 29 October 1976.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Gladys May Lancaster, born 24 September 1904, in October-December 1972 in Easthampstead (6a 105).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Gladys May Lancaster died 28 December 1972 at Bollands (sic - in the index) Bracknell Berks, probate 22 January 1974 in Brighton. "Lancaster, Gladys May of 33 Wordsworth Great Hollands Bracknell Berks died 28 December 1972 Administration Brighton 22 January £1628".
There are twenty entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Gladys May Baker.
Gladys May Baker was the great grandneice of Harriet Dudman, wife of Charles Croucher, my second great grandfather, and first cousin once removed of Frederick George Deadman, husband of Ruth Croucher, my aunt, and of Sylvia Irene Deadman, wife of Leonard Croucher, my uncle.
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