Birth: 8 June 1914 Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK
Father: Oliver Gardner (Gardener, Gardiner) Sharpe
1886-1947
Mother: Clara Lizzie Francis Hannett 1885-1980
Christening: 16 August 1914 All Saints, Battersea Park, Southwark, London, UK
Marriage: October-December 1935 NE Surrey, UK
Husband: Harold Edward Smith 1911-1998
Marriage: January-March 1972 Mid Eastern Surrey, UK
Husband: Arthur Hope Jordan 1906-1989
Death: 24 May 2008 Leatherhead, Surrey, UK
By Harold
Patricia I Smith 1939
Joyce Smith 1942
Birth of Irene B Sharpe, mother's maiden name Hannett, in FreeBMD in July-September 1914 in Kingston (2a 937).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 for Irene Betty Sharpe baptised 16 August 1914 at St Mary, Willesden, Brent, parents Oliver Gardiner and Clara Sharpe."Page 106 Baptism solemnized in the Parish of [blank] in the Diocese of [blank] in the County of [blank] in the Year One Thousand nine hundred and fourteen [...] Aug: 16th No. 954 Irene Betty [parents] Oliver Gardiner, [a] Grocer's Assistant, & Clara Sharpe [of] 10 Southolme St." Note that the heading on the previous page 105 has the church All Saints, Battersea Park, Southwark, London with the same official and this seems much more likely.
Her brother was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1916.
Marriage of Irene B Sharpe and Harold E Smith in FreeBMD in October-December 1935 in Surrey NE (2a 214).
Her daughter was born in NE Surrey in 1939.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Irene B Smith born 8 June 1914, married and living with Harold E Smith (husband?) and one other (daughter?) at 118 Ellerton Road, Surbiton, Surrey.
Her daughter was born in NE Surrey in 1942.
Four entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Irene B Jordan address Council Flat, Bull Hill, Leatherhead, Epsom from 1959 to 1962, other occupant Arthur H Jordan (future husband?).
Two entries in FreeBMD for the marriage of Irene B Jordan and to Irene B Smith to Arthur H Jordan in January-March 1972 in Surrey Mid E (5g 145).
Her husband died in Mid Eastern Surrey in March 1989.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 for Irene B Jordan address 73 Edenside Road, Bookham KT23 3JE, Leatherjhead, Surrey from 2003 to 2008.
Entry in 192.com for Irene B Jordan in the Electoral Roll 2002-08 living in Leatherhead, Surrey KT23.
Entry in Ancestry England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2019 for Ms Irene Betty Jordan died 24 May 2008 aged 93 in Leatherhead, Surrey KT23.
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Irene Betty Sharpe.
Irene Betty Sharpe was the wife of Arthur Hope Jordan, grandnephew of Edgar Jordan, husband of Amy Luff, my half first cousin twice removed, and also the brother of Harold Graham Jordan, husband of Doris Grocock, my half third cousin.
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