Clara Emma Hall (Hale) [Matthews] (1898-1992)

Dates

Birth: 20 August 1898 12 Cumberland Square, Belgrave, St George Hanover Square, London, UK
Father: Thomas William Hall 1860-1939
Mother: Clara Emma Ensor (Paton) 1861-1919

Marriage: January-March 1925 St George Hanover Square, London, UK
Husband: Percy Robert Matthews 1898-1989

Death: January 1992 Canterbury, Kent, UK

Children

Robert G Matthews 1927
Roy F Matthews 1931-a1962

Notes

Birth of Clara Emma Hall in FreeBMD in October-December 1898 in St. Geo. H. Sq. (1a 417).

In the 1901 census as Clara E Hall aged 2, born in Pimlico, London, and living with her parents (Thomas W and Clara E), two brothers (Joseph V and William J), and two sisters (Florence P and Frances) in four rooms at 12 Cumberland Square, Belgrave, St George Hanover Square, London. Three other families were living at the same address.

In the 1911 census as Clara Emma Hall aged 12, born in London, and living with her parents (Thomas William and Clara Emma), and brother (Joseph Victor) in two rooms at 49 Rutland St, Pimlico S W, St George Hanover Square, London.

In the 1921 census as Clara E Hall born in Pimlico, London in 1898 and living in St George's Hanover Square, London, Middlesex.

Marriage of Clara E Hale (sic - on the typed original) and Percy R Matthews in FreeBMD in January-March 1925 in St.Geo.H.Sq. (1a 626).

Her first son son was born in Chelsea in 1927 and second in Fulham in 1931.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Clara E Matthews born 20 August 1898, married, and living with Percy R Matthews (husband?) and one other (son?) at 108 Westbury Avenue, Southall, Middlesex.

There are five entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Clara Emma Matthews address 52 Chaldon Road SW6 Fulham in 1929 to 1933, other occupants Percy Robert Matthews (husband?) and Miss Lily May Rose, and 108 Westbury Avenue, Uxbridge, Hillingdon in 1933 to 1935, other occupant Percy Robert Matthews (husband?), and ten entries for Clara E Matthews address 108 Westbury Road, Waxlow Manor, Southall from 1947 to 1962, other occupants Percy R Matthews (husband?), Robert G Matthews (son?) from 1949 to 1950 and in 1954, and Roy F Matthews (son?) in 1952.

Her husband died in Canterbury in 1992.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for Clara Emma Matthews, born on 20 August 1898, in January 1992 in Canterbury (16 311).

There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Clara Emma Hall born in 1898 in Westminster, London, parents Thomas William and Clara E Paton, and another entry gives her birth in DEcember 1898 in St George Hanover Square London, and her mother's middle name as Emma.

Relationship

Clara Emma Hall was the wife of Percy Robert Matthews, my second cousin once removed.

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