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 N G Knowles 1945
Andrew W A Knowles 1946
Rosemary N J Knowles [Chapman, Hayden] 1955-a1982
Birth of Bessie M Grantham, mother's maiden name Speechley, in FreeBMD in January-March 1916 in Lincoln (7a 846).
Her sister and two brothers were born in Lincoln in 1918 to 1926.
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 first son was born in Lincoln in 1945 and second son and daughter in St Pancras in 1946 and 1955.
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 in Lincoln in 1992.
Entry in People Trace UK for Bessie M Knowles - 30 Meadowlake Close, Lincoln LN6 0UA, and 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 8 May 2000 in Lincolnshire.
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Bessie Margaret Grantham born on 1 March 1916 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, parents Leonard Richard Grantham and Elsie Maud Speechley in two, and another for Bessie Margaret Grantham, her marriage to Neve Herbert Knowles on 17 November 1943 in London, 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.
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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