Birth: 1 March 1916 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
Father: Leonard Richard Grantham 1889-1957
Mother: Elsie Maud Speechley 1890-1987
Marriage: 17 November 1943 Marylebone, London, UK
Husband: Neve Herbert Knowles 1909-1992
Death: 2 May 2000 Bassingham, Lincolnshire, UK
Burial: 8 May 2000 All Saints, Branston, Lincolnshire, UK
Richard Neve Grantham Knowles 1945-2022
Andrew W A Knowles 1946
Rosemary N J Knowles [Chapman, Hayden] 1955-a1982
Linda Knowles
Birth of Bessie M Grantham, mother's maiden name Speechley, in FreeBMD in January-March 1916 in Lincoln (7A 846).
Her sister was registered in January-March 1918 in Lincoln.
In the 1921 census as Bessie Margaret Grantham aged 5 years 3 months, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, both parents alive, and living with her parents (Leonard R and Elsie), sister (Ivyce Mary) and a servant (Hilda Blackley aged 20, born in Maltby, Lincolnshire and single) in six rooms at Croyland, Hykeham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Her two brothers were registered in January-March 1923 and July-September 1926, both in Lincoln.
There are three entries in Ancestry All UK & Ireland, Nursing Registers, 1898-1968 for Bessie Margaret Grantham - Qualified University College Hospital, London 1935 to 1938 by examination, registered 25 November 1938 in London, address The Poplars, Branston, Lincolnshire in 1940 and 1943, and 147 Trinity Road, London SW17 in 1946.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Bessie M Grantham changed to Knowles born 1 March 1916, single, a pupil midwife SRN living with some 55 others at 612 Castle Street, Bridgwater, Somerset.
Marriage of Bessie M Grantham and Neve H Knowles in FreeBMD in October-December 1943 in Marylebone (1A 918).
Her son was registered in January-March 1945 in Lincoln, and he son and daughter in October-December 1946 and October-December 1955, both in St Pancras.
There are sixteen entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Bessie M Knowles address 147 Trinity Road, Springfield, Wandsworth from 1946 to 1962, other occupant Neve H Knowles (husband?), and another family in 1946 to 1948, and 104 Green Lane, Thornton Heath, Norwood, Croydon in 1963 to 1964.
Her husband died on 16 November 1992 address 15 St Edward's Drive, Sudbrooke, Lincolnshire.
Entry in People Trace UK for Bessie M Knowles - 30 Meadowlake Close, Lincoln LN6 0UA from 1996 to 2000.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Bessie Margaret Knowles, born on 1 March 1916, in May 2000 in Lincoln (B61C 6191B 90).
Entry in Deceased Online for Bessie Margaret Knowles cremated on 5 May 2000 in Lincolnshire.
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current for Margaret Knowles, children Andrew, Richard and Linda, died 2 May 2000, buried 8 May, obituary 5 May 2000 in the Daily Telegraph, London.
There are twenty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Bessie Margaret Grantham adding her marriage on 17 November 1943, two daughters and two sons, and her death on 2 May 2000 in Bassingham, Lincolnshire, and burial on 8 May 2000 at All Saints, Branston. I assume the second daughter is Linda but I cannot locate a birth registration for her.
Bessie Margaret Grantham was the mother 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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