Birth: 19 May 1917 Lewisham, London, UK
Father: Alfred William Westaway 1895-1941
Mother: Edith Maud Mary Luff [Maclean, Macklem] 1897-1988
Marriage: July-September 1940 Woolwich, London, UK
Husband: Douglas Wilfred Booker 1917-2006
Death: 10 January 1947 8 Victoria Avenue, Gretna, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Roger Douglas Booker 1942-2012
Birth of Joan V Westaway, mother's maiden name Luff, in FreeBMD in October-December 1917 in Lewisham (1D 1468).
Her brother was born in Lewisham in 1919.
In the 1921 census as Joan Vivian Westaway born in Forest Hill, London in 1917, and living with Alfred William and Edith Maud Mary Westaway (parents?) and James Harry Westaway (brother?) in Lewisham, London, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Joan Vivian Westaway address 169 Flaxton Road SE18, Woolwich, Newham in 1939, other occupants Alfred William and Edith Maud Mary Westaway (parents?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Joan V Westaway changed to Booker born 19 May 1917, single, a shoe sales lady, and living with Alfred W and Edith M M Westaway (parents?), and one other (brother?) at 169 Flaxton Street, Woolwich, London.
Marriage of Joan V Westaway and Douglas W Booker in FreeBMD in July-September 1940 in Woolwich (1D 3653).
Her son was born in Woolwich in 1942.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Joan Vivian Booker in 1947 aged 29 in Graitney or Gretna (827/ 1). "Page 1 Deaths in the District of Gretna in the County of Dumfries [illegible note] [No.] 1 Joan Vivian Booker Married to Douglas Alfred Booker Civil ? Air Ministry 1947 January Tenth About 11 ? [at] 8 Victoria Avenue Gretna [aged] 29 years [father] Alfred Wm Westaway ? Inspector (Deceased) [mother] Edith Maud Mary Westay now Maclean M.S. Luff [rest illegible] [informant] D W Booker widower Present 1947 January 13th At Gretna".
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Joan Vivian Booker died 10 January 1947 in Dumfries, Scotland, probate 10 April 1947 in Carlisle. "Booker Joan Vivian of 8 Victoria-avenue Gretna Dumfries (wife of Douglas Wilfred Booker) died 10 January 1947 Administration Carlisle 10 April to Douglas Wilfred Booker air ministry inspector. Effects £161 13s. in England".
There are fourteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Joan Vivian Westaway.
Joan Vivian Westaway was my half third cousin once removed.
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