Birth: 31 December 1890 East Street, Corfe Castle, Dorset, UK
Father: Henry George Travers 1866-1951
Mother: Bessie Speck 1870-1954
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 26 December 1915 St James, Kingston, Dorset, UK
Husband: Alfred Dorey 1889-1967
Death: 12 April 1968 34 Barfett Street, Queens Park, Greater London, UK
Cremated: 19 April 1968 Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, UK
Frederick Charles Dorey 1915-2004
Iris Ada Jean Dorey [Weston] 1920-a1946
Birth of Winifred Rose Travers in FreeBMD in January-March 1891 in Wareham (5A 279).
In the 1891 census as Winifred Rose Travers aged 3 months, born in Corfe Castle, Dorset, and living with her parents (George and Bessie) and two brothers (Arthur Lionel and Willie Herbert) in two rooms in East Street, Corfe Castle, Dorset. Another family lived at the same address.
In the 1901 census as Winifred R Travers aged 10, born in Corfe Castle, Dorset, and living with her parents (Henry G and Bessie M), four brothers (Albert H, Arthur L, Gordon A and William H) and a sister (Henrietta) at Kingston Barn Cottage, Corfe Castle, Dorset.
In the 1911 census Rose Travers aged 20, born in Corfe Castle, Dorset, single, no stated employment, and living with her parents (Henry George and Bessie), six brothers (Albert, Allan, Arthur, Edward, Gerald and Henry) and three sisters (Annie, Phillis and Maud) in five rooms in South Street, Kingston, Wareham, Dorset.
Marriage of Alfred Dorey and Winifred R Travers in FreeBMD in October-December 1914 in Wareham (5A 679).
Entry in Ancestry Dorset, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921 for Winifred Rose Travers, father George Travers, and Alfred Dorey aged 25, father Stephen Dorey, on 26 December 1914 in Kingston, Dorset. "Page 11 1914 Marriage solemnized at Kingston in the Parish Church of St James in the County of Dorset [No.] 21 Dec 26 1914 Alfred Dorey [aged] 25 [a] Bachelor [and] Rly Constable [of] Kingston [father] Stephen Dorey [a] Gardener, [and] Winifred Rose Travers [aged] 23 [a] Spinster [of] Kingston [father] George Travers [a] Labourer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England after banns [...] in the Presence of us G Travers and Gilbert Dorey."
Her son was born in Stockwell in 1915 and daughter in Lambeth in 1920.
Entry in her husbands service records gives his next of kin as his wife Winifred Rose Dorey of 123 Portnell Road, Harrow Road married in Dorset on 26 December 1915 and a son Frederick Charles born on 20 October 1915 in Stockwell.
In the 1921 census as Winifred Rose Dorey born in Dorset in 1891 and living with Alfred Dorey (husband?), Frederick Charles Dorey (son?) and Iris Ada Jean Dorey (daughter?) in Lambeth, London, Surrey.
There are twelve entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Winifred Rose Dorey address 42 Horace Street, Vauxhall, Kennington, Lambeth from 1925 to 1926, other occupant Alfred Dorey (husband?) and another family, 21 Meadow Place, Vauxhall, Kennington, Lambeth in 1927, other occupant Alfred Dorey (husband?) and another family, 22 Meadow Place, Vauxhall, Kennington, Lambeth in 1927, other occupant Alfred Dorey (husband?) and another family, and 9 Caird Street, Queens Park, Paddington, Westminster from 1932 to 1939, other occupants Alfred Dorey (husband?) and Frederick Charles Dorey (son?) from 1937 to 1939, and eighteen entries for Winifred R Dorey from 1945 to 1965, other occupants Alfred Dorey (husband?), Frederick Charles Dorey (son?) in 1946, and Iris Ada Jean Dorey (daughter?) in 1946 and 1947.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Winifred Rose Dorey born 31 December 1890, married, and living with Alfred Dorey (husband?) and Frederick Charles Dorey (son?) and one other at 9 Caird Street, Paddington, London.
Her husband died at 9 Caird Street, Queens Park, London on 14 October 1967.
Death of Winifred R Dorey in FreeBMD in April-June 1968 aged 77 in Paddington (5D 472).
Entry in Deceased Online for Winifred Rose Dorey died 12 April 1968, cremated 19 April 1968 in Kensington and Chelsea, London.
There are fifty eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Winifred Rose Travers.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Winifred Rose Dorey died 12 Aptil 1968 in London probate 6 June 1968 in London. "Dorey Winifred Rose of 34 Barfett St Queens Park London died 12 April 1968 probate London 6 June. £2557."
Entry in Kingston Past and Present for Winifred Rose ‘Rose’ Travers (1891-1968). Rose married railway constable Alfred Dorey (1889-1967) at Kingston on 26 December 1914. Alfred served in France from August 1915. Alfred and Rose lived in Paddington, London and had one son: Frederick Charles Dorey (1915-2004).
Winifred Rose Travers was the mother of Frederick Charles Dorey, husband of Irene Ethel Goss, sister of Arthur Norman Goss, husband of Joyce Lester, my half third cousin.
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