Birth: 3 July 1894 Bridge Street, Helmsley, North Riding, Yorkshire, UK.
Father: Joseph Frank 1857-1940
Mother: Annie Brown Leslie 1865-1928
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 19 February 1920 St Mark, Harrogate, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: James Simpson Denby 1883-1931
Death: May 1988 Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK
Diana Leslie Denby 1922-1984
Birth of Mildred May Frank in FreeBMD in July-September 1894 in Helmsley (9D 406).
In the 1901 census as Mildred M Frank aged 6, born in Helmsley, Yorkshire and living with her parents (Joseph and Annie B), brother (Oswald D), and two servants (Margerotta Fletcher aged 26, born in York and a governess, and Annie Huddleston aged 24 and born in Rosedale, Yorkshire, both single) in Bridge Street, Helmsley, North Riding, Yorkshire.
Her brother was born in Helmsley in 1903.
In the 1911 census as Mildred M Frank aged 18, born in Helmsley, Yorkshire, single, assisting in home work, and living with her parents (Joseph and Annie), three brothers (Danald D Frank (crossed out), Leslie and Ronald), (step)grandfather (George Wilson), grandmother (Ann Wilson), and a servant (Amy Atkinson aged 21, single and born in Pockley) in seven rooms in Bridge Street, Helmsley, York.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for the banns for Mildred May Franks (sic) and James Simpson Denby on 1 February 1920 at Harrogate, St Mark "Page 6 The Year 1920 [...] No. 182 Banns of Marriage between James Simpson Denby, Widower of this Parish and Mildred May Franks (sic), Spinster of the Parish of All Saints Helmsley Were published as follows:- 1st, on Sunday January 18th [...] 2d, on Sunday January 25th [...] 3d, on Sunday February 1st "
Marriage of Mildred M Frank and James S Denby in FreeBMD in January-March 1920 in Knaresbro (9A 197).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for the marriage of Mildred Mary Franks (sic) aged 25, father Joseph Frank, and James Simpson Denby on 19 February 1920 in Harrogate St Mark "Page 35 [...] 1920 Marriage solemnized at St. Mark's Church in the New Parish of St. Mark's Harrogate in the County of York. [No.] 70 Feby 19th 1920 James Simpson Denby [aged] 36 [a] Widower and Merchant [of] 1 St. Mark's Avenue, Harrogate, [father] Herbert James Denby Gentleman, [and] Mildred May Frank [aged] 25 [a] Spinster [of] Buckingham House, Helmsley [father] Joseph Frank [a] Timber-merchant. Married in the Above Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us Herbert J Denby [and] Joseph Frank."
In the 1921 census as Mildred May Denby born in Helmsley, Yorkshire in 1894 and living with James Simspon Denby (husband?), James Hilton Denby (stepson?), (Helen Joan Denby (stepdaughter?), Helen May Denby (sister-in-law?), Olga Mary Simpson, Gertrude Mills and Alice Stirk in Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Her daughter was born on 2 June 1922 in Leeds.
Her husband had a departmental store in Parliament Street, Harrogate according to Felicity's father.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for James Simpson Denby address Wharfedale Lawn, Wethersby, Barkston Ash in 1925, other occupant Mildred May Denby (wife?).
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Mrs Mildred Mary Denby aged 33 of Wharfedale Lawn, Wetherby, Yorkshire departed London 26 August 1927 on Narkunda, P & O S N Co first class for Gibralter accompanied by Jas Simpson Denby.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Mildred May Denby address Wharfedale Lawn, Wethersby, Barkston Ash in 1929, other occupant James Simpson Denby (husband?).
Her husband died on 21 March 1931 at 77 Clarendon Road, Leeds.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Mildred M Denby born 3 May 1896 (sic - on the original), widowed, living on private means, and living wth Diana L Denby (daughter?) and Jean E Scott changed to Elizabeth J Harris at 5 Granby Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire (West Riding).
We visited her and her daughter in Harrogate in 1982.
Her daughter died at Strayside, 3 Granby Road, Harrogate on 15 June 1984.
Felicity visited her in a nursing home in Harrogate after her daughter's death.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Mildred May Denby, born 3 July 1894, in May 1988 in Claro (1 1924).
There are thirty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Hilda May Frank.
Note that Harrogate was transfered from Knaresborough to Claro in 1947. and from West Riding to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Mildred May Frank was Felicity's first cousin once removed.
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