Birth: 3 October 1908 Chorlton, Lancashire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Mary Jane Eliza (Polly) Stubbs (Pullen) 1875-1962
Marriage: 22 January 1938 South Manchester, UK
Husband: Owen Francis Roberts 1915-1991
Death: 22 December 1965 17 Edward Avenue, Bredbury, Cheshire, UK
June Margaret Roberts [Devine, Wood] 1939-a1983
Birth of Dorothy Stubbs in FreeBMD in October-December 1908 in Chorlton (8c 734).
In the 1911 census as Dorothy Stubbs aged 2, born in Manchester, Lancashire, and living with her mother (Mary Jane Eliza), sister (Dora), and a boarder (Elizabeth Bank aged 48, born in Manchester, Lancashire, single and a charwoman) at 33 St Andrews Street, Manchester, Lancashire.
Her mother changed her name to Pullen, Dorothy's grandmother's name.
In the 1921 census as Dorothy Pullen born in Manchester, Lancashire in 1908, and living with Mary (mother?) and William Pullen in South Manchester, Chorlton, Lancashire. I cannot find any other reference to this William Pullen born in Manchester in 1870.
There are two entries in FreeBMD for the marriage of Dorothy Pullen and Dorothy Stubbs to Owen F Roberts in January-March 1938 in Manchester S (8d 286).
Her daughter was born in Stockport in the summer of 1939, but the father is unknown (apparently her husband could not have been the father).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Dorothy T Roberts born 3 October 1908, married, and living with June M Roberts (daughter?), and William F and Catherine A Roberts (parents-in-law), at 29 High Street, Penmaenmawr, Caernarvonshire, Wales.
Her daughter was not wanted by her or her husband, and put in an orphanage in Bolton at the age of 7.In 1947 she was living at 17 Edward Avenue, Bredbury, Cheshire.
She had separated from her husband before 1952 when he had a child by Eveline Joan Kirby. They did not divorce because it was a catholic marriage.
Death of Dorothy T Roberts in FreeBMD in October-December 1965 aged 56 in NE Cheshire (10A 428). Registration District North East Cheshire 1965 Death in the Sub-district of Bredbury in the County of Chester. [No.] 499 Twenty-second December 1965 [at] 17 Edward Avanue Bredbury Dorothy Theresa Roberts [aged] 56 Wife of Owen Francis Roberts a Dockworker [...] informant O F Roberts Widower of deceased 37 Clavendon Rise, Lewisham, London SE13 [on] Twenty seventh December 1965.
Infomation from Ivy Stubbs - George Stubbs had a sister Polly who had an illigitimate daughter Dorothy and took the name Mrs. Pullen at his suggestion, Pullen being George's mother's maiden name. Dorothy was Ivy's cousin, and had an illigitimate daughter June. She did not marry June's father, but married a welshman, a Mr. Roberts. She died aged 57 of a heart attack.
There are nineentries in Ancestry Family Trees for Dorothy Theresa Stubbs or Pullen.
Dorothy Theresa Stubbs was Felicity's first cousin once removed.
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