Hilda May (Mary) Smithers [Ravenscroft] (1900-2003)


Dates

Birth: 4 September 1900 New Farm, Grayswood, Witley, Surrey, UK
Father: Levi Smither (Smithers) 1861-1909
Mother: Rhoda Court 1861-1927

Christening: 14 October 1900 Witley, Surrey, UK

Marriage: July-September 1931 Hambledon, Surrey, UK
Husband: Frederick Ravenscroft 1903-1987

Death: May 2003 West Surrey, UK

Children

None known

Notes

Birth of Hilda May Smithers in FreeBMD in October-December 1900 in Hambledon (2a 135). Birth place from 1901 census.

Christening of Hilda Mary Smithers in the IGI on 14 October 1900 in Witley, Surrey, parents Levi and Rhoda Smithers.

In the 1901 census as Hilda May Smithers aged 6 months, born in Witley, Surrey, and living with her parents (Levi and Rhoda), five brothers (Alfred J, Arthur, Leonard, Walter and William), half-brother (Levi), and two sisters (Clara and Ruth) at New Farm, Grayswood, Witley, Surrey.

Her father died in Hambledon in 1909.

In the 1911 census as Hilda Smithers aged 10, born in Witley, Surrey, and living with her widowed mother (Rhoda), five brothers (Alfred, Arthur. Lenard, Walter and William), two sisters (Clara and Ruth) and three cousins (Dorothy, Eva and Jane) in eight rooms at New Farm, Grayswood, Haslmere, Surrey.

Marriage of Hilda M Smithers and Frederick Ravescroft in FreeBMD in July-September 1931 in Hambledon (2a 591).

Her husband died in Droxford in 1987.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for Hilda May Ravenscroft, born on 4 September 1900, in May 2003 in West Surrey (B15B 761/1B 163).

Linda Ann Hartley has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Hilda May Smithers born in 1900 in Witley, Surrey, parents Levi Smithers and Rhoda Court. Two other entries add her marriage to Bertie Leonard Fillery in NW Surrey in 1955 (this must be another person).

Relationship

Hilda May Smithers was my tenth cousin once removed.

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