Birth: April-June 1907 Wandsworth, London, UK
Father: John Henry Clarke 1881-1933
Mother: Elizabeth Annie Wenham 1864-1939
Marriage: April-June 1937 Battersea, London, UK
Husband: Neve Herbert Knowles 1909-1992
Death: 31 August 1939 51-53 Ritherdon Road, Wandsworth Common, London, UK
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Birth of Vera Marjorie Clarke in FreeBMD in April-June 1907 in Wandsworth (1d 634).
In the 1911 census as Vera Marjorie Clarke aged 4, born in Wandsworth, Hertford (sic - in the index), and living with her parents (John Henry and Elizabeth Annie) and a servant (Harriet Clarke - sic in the index, Wybrew on the original, aged 37, single and born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertford) at 48 Lambert Road, Brixton Hill SW, Norwood, Lambeth, London.
Seven entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Vera Marjorie Clarke address 198 Bedford Hill SW12, Balham, Wandsworth from 1929 to 1936, other occupants Elizabeth Annie Clarke (mother?), John Henry Clarke (father?) to 1933, Nellie May Heather, and Dorothy May Parsonage in 1935.
Marriage of Vera M Clarke and Neve H Knowles in FreeBMD in April-June 1937 in Battersea (1d 871).
Death of Vera M Knowles in FreeBMD in July-September 1939 aged 32 in Wandsworth (1d 464).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Vera Majorie Knowles died 31 August 1939 in London, probate 26 February 1940 in London. "Knowles Vera Marjorie of 147 Trinity-road Wandsworth Common London S.W. 17 (wife of Neve Herbert Knowles) died 31 August 1939 at 51-53 Ritherdon-road Wandsworth Common Administration London 26 February to the said Neve Herbert Knowles dental surgeon and Elizabeth Annie Clarke (widow). Effects £3040 15s."
Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Vera Marjorie Clarke born in April 1907 in Wandsworth, Surrey, parents John Henry and Elizabeth Annie Clarke, her marriage to Neve Herbert Knowles in June 1937 in Battersea, Surrey, and her death on 31 August 1939 in Wandsworth, Surrey of a duodenal ulcer in one.
Vera Majorie Clarke was wife of Neve Herbert Knowles, father of Rosemary N J Knowles, wife of Ian A Hayden, grandnephew of Alfred James Hayden, husband of Annie Baker, my half second cousin twice removed.
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