Irene Verita Ford [Alltimes] (1897-1966)

Dates

Birth: October-December 1897 Mitcham, Surrey, UK
Father: Albert Edward Ford 1863-1941
Mother: Ann (Annie) Croucher 1865-1942

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 2 August 1920 Christ Church, Mitcham, Surrey, UK
Husband: Frederick William Arthur Alltimes 1900-1978

Death: 7 January 1966 Tooting, Greater London, UK
Burial: 11 January 1966 Merton, Greater London, UK

Children

Sylvia Irene Faith Alltimes 1921-2014
Freda Gwen Alltimes [Lumley] 1925-2018

Notes

Birth of Irene Verita Ford in FreeBMD in October-December 1897 in Croydon (2A 313).

Her three sisters were baptised on 9 April 1899 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at Spring Cottage.

In the 1901 census as Trena (sic - in the index, Irene on the original) Ford aged 3, born in Mitcham, Surrey and living with her parents (Albert and Annie), brother (Ernest) and four sisters (Alisa, Dorris, Stella, and Vera) at High Street, Colliers Wood, Mitcham, Surrey.

Her brother was christened on 28 July 1901 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at Spring Gardens, her brother and sister were baptised on 1 August 1906 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at 19 Briscoe Road, and her sister was baptised on 8 March 1911 at Christ Church, Mitcham when they were living at 19 Briscoe Road.

In the 1911 census as Irene Verita Ford aged 13, born in Merton, Surrey, and living with her parents (Albert Edward and Annie), three brothers (Ernest Robert, Harold John and William Walter), and three sisters (Ailsa Alberta, Gwendolin, and Sylvia Emily) in four rooms at 19 Briscoe Road, Colliers Wood, Merton SW, Surrey.

Marriage of Irene V Ford and Frederick W A Alltimes in FreeBMD in July-September 1920 in Croydon (2A 789).

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for Irene Vinita (sic) Ford aged 22, father Albert Edward Ford, and Frederick William Arthur Alltimes on 2 August 1920 at Mitcham, Christ Church. "Page 209 1920 Marriage solemnized at Christ Church in the Parish of Mitcham in the County of Surrey [No.] 417 Aug 2nd 1920 Frederick William Arthur Alltimes [aged] 20 [a] B. [and] Stoker [of] H.M.S. Barham [father] George Alltimes [a] riveter, [and] Irene Verita Ford [aged] 22 [a] S. [of] 19 Briscoe Road [father] Albert Edward Ford [a] decorator. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Estd: Church after banns [...] in the Presence of us Annie Ford, Harriat Alltimes, Henry Edward Alltimes [and] Ernest Robert Ford".

In the 1921 census as Ailsa Alberta Ford born in 1899 in Colliers Wood, Surrey, and living with Albert Edward Ford (father?), Ernest Robert, Harold John and William Walter Ford (brothers?), and Irene Vertice and Frederick William Arthur Alltenes (married sister and brother-in-law?) in Mitcham, Croydon, Surrey. Her mother and two sisters (Gwendoline and Sylvia) were living in Hastings.

Her first daughter was registered in Kingston in July-September 1921 and second in Croydon in 1925.

Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Irene Verita Alltimes address 67 Rosebery Road SW2, Clapham, Wandsworth in 1928, other occupants Frederick William Arthur Alltimes (husband?) and another family.

Eleven entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Irene Alltimes address 43 Acre Road, Colliers Wood SW19 from 1937, Mitcham, from 1929 to 1939, other occupant Frederick Alltimes (husband?).

I cannot locate her or the family in the 1939 Register.

She had separated from her husband by the start of the war - he was living at 20 Broomfields Road, Wandsworth in the 1939 Register, and he was living with Anne C Travers (future wife?) at 23 Glenshaw Mansions, Vassall, Lambeth in 1945 from the Electoral Roll, and they had a son born 18 December 1940 in Exmoor, Somerset.

Two entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Irene V Alltimes address 43 Acre Road, Colliers Wood SW19, Mitcham in 1964 and 1965 other occupant Syvia I F Alltimes (daughter?).

Death of Irene V Alltimes in FreeBMD in January-March 1966 aged 68 in Wandsworth (5E 555).

Entry in Deceased Online for Irene Alltimes buried 11 January 1966 in Merton, London.

There are twenty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Irene Verita Ford adding her death on 7 January 1966 in Tooting.

Relationship

Irene Verita Ford was my first cousin once removed.

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