Birth: 11 March 1892 Emsworth, Hampshire, UK
Father: John James Chalcraft 1865-1920
Mother: Elizabeth Neal 1865-1950
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1917 Havant, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Henry Albert Bradley 1885-1975
Death: 18 October 1977 Cooper's Lodge, Massetts Road, Horley, Surrey, UK
John David Bradley 1920-2004
Albert E Bradley 1924
Birth of Elsie Chalcraft in FreeBMD in April-June 1892 in Havant (2b 412).
In the 1901 census as Elsie Chalcraft aged 9, born in Emsworth, Hapshire, and living with her parents (John J and Elizabeth), two brothers (Horace and Jack) and three sisters (Dorothy, Hilda and May) in King Terrace, Warblington, Hampshire.
In the 1911 census as Elsie Chalcraft aged 19, single, born in Emsworth, and a palourmaid living with Margaret Stokes (aged 58, born in Hamilton, Canada, but British, two children both living, widowed, and no stated employment), her daughter (M Winifred aged 27, born in Bermuda but British, single and no stated employment), and a cook (Georgina Spencer aged 24, born in Nutbourne, Surrey and single) in thirteen rooms at Forbury, Havant Road, Emsworth, Hampshire.
Marriage of Elsie Chalcraft and Henry A Bradley in FreeBMD in January-March 1917 in Havent (sic - on the typed original) (2b 708).
Her first son was born in Fulham in 1921 and second in Kingston in 1924.
Four entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Elsie Bradley address 86 Horley Road, Reigate from 1959 to 1962, other occupants Henry A Bradley (husband?), and Albert E Bradley (son?) in 1959.
Her husband died at 372 Godstone Road, Whyteleafe on 8 September 1975.
Death of Elsie Bradley, born on 11 March 1892, in FreeBMD in October-December 1977 in Surrey SE (17 938).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Elsie Bradley died on 18 October 1977 in Horley, Surrey, probate on 5 December 1977 in Brighton. "Bradley, Elsie of Coopers Lodge Massetts Rd Horley Sy died 18 October 1977 Probate Brighton 5 December £14123".
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Elsie Chalcraft born in Emsworth, Hampshire in April 1892, parents John James Chalcraft and Elizabeth Neal in one, and married with two sons in the other.
Elsie Chalcraft was the mother of John David Bradley, husband of Diana Mary Syms, my half fourth cousin.
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