Dorothy Lucy Gurr [Weston] (1896-1979)

Dates

Birth: 7 July 1896 Ash, Surrey, UK
Father: George Gurr 1860-1936
Mother: Emily Stannard 1867-1942

Christening: 4 October 1896 St Peter, Ash, Surrey, UK

Marriage: July-September 1939 Marylebone, London, UK
Husband: Archibald William Stannard Weston 1892-1941

Death: May 1979 3 Korea Cottages, The Tlt, Cobham, Surrey, UK
Burial: 1 June 1979 St Peter, West Molesey, Surrey, UK

Children

None known

Notes

Birth of Dorothy Lucy Gurr in FreeBMD in July-September 1896 in Farnham (2a 107).

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Dorothy Lucy Gurr on 4 October 1896 at Ash, St Peter, parents Emily and Grace Gurr. "Page 17 Baptism solemnized in the Parish of Ash in the County of Surrey in the Year One thousand eight hundred and ninety six [...] 1896 Oct 4th No 191 Dorothy Lucy, [parents] Emily & George, [a] labourer, Gurr [of] Ash". Note that unusually some of the entries give the mother's name first.

In the 1901 census as Dorothy L Gurr aged 4, born in Ash, Surrey and living with her parents (George and Emily), brother (George S) and three visitors (Michael Kilmurray aged 37, born in South Africa, and a domestic, Edith Kilmurray aged 23 and born in Brighton, Sussex, and Gruse M M Kilmurray aged 4 and born in Brighton, Sussex) in Station Road, Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey.

In the 1911 census as Dorothy Lucy Gurr aged 14, born in Ash, Surrey, a domestic housemaid, and living with her parents (George and Emily) and brother (George Stannard) in five rooms at 3 Korea Cottages, The Tilt, Cobham, Surrey.

In the 1921 census as Dorothy Lucy Gurr born in Ash Vale, Surrey, in 1896 and living in Cranleigh, Hambledon, Surrey.

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1918-1945 for Dorothy Lucy Gurr address Laglands, Reigate in 1929, seven others were living at the same address, and an entry for Dorothy Gurr address Tigbourne Court, Witley, Guildford in 1931.

There are three entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Miss Dorothy Lucy Gurr address 75 Harley Street, Park Crescent in 1936 to 1939, another ten being registered at the same address although four had abodes elsewhere.

Marriage of Dorothy L Gurr and Archibald W S Weston in FreeBMD in July-September 1939 in Marylebone (1a 2430).

Her husband died in Hampstead in 1941.

Sixteen entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Dorothy L Weston, address 3 Korea Cottages, Tilt Road, Cobham from 1945 to 1962- 1 or 2 others were living at the same address.

Death of Dorothy Lucy Weston, born on 7 July 1896, in FreeBMD in April-June 1979 in Surrey N (17 0270).

Entry in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 for Dorothy Lucy Weston on 1 June 1979 aged 82 at West Molesey, St Peter. "Burials in the Parish of St Peter West Molesey in the Diocese of Guildford in the County of Surrey Year 1979 [...] 149 Dorothy Lucy Weston [of] 3 Korea Cottages, The Tlt, Cobham [on] 1st June [aged] 82".

There are twelve entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Dorothy Lucy Gurr.

Relationship

Dorothy Lucy Gurr was the wife and first cousin of Archibald William Stannard Weston, husband of Winifred Louise Foulkes, my third cousin twice removed.

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