Following up my last thread I find a key player, now Mrs Hannah M.L. Gardner, living with her brother [I think, George William Alfred ? b. 1877 ]in 1939 possible again a widow but not listed so. Also together in 1945-1950 Woolwich. Deaths listed for both in Mar 1/4 -1951. aged in their 70s. Would this be due to a virus such as the influenza which was about at that time or just a coincidence?
Could be, but also there is the chance that they had lived together so long that one missed the other and gave up. It does happen.
That was before the Clean Air Act. winters in London were often plagued by " pea-soupers" and deaths from respiratory diseases were common.
There was an influenza epidemic in 1951, mainly in the north of England but it did spread to the south.
That's how I read it Jan, but wondered if....maybe there were other factors, other diseases. Sad to see them leave when I've just found them again. No, not really of mine but a healthy part there-of. I had no idea what I may discover when I asked a relatively simple query, but all so necessary in finding true path of rellies lineage.
Back in the thick of this I find they were in fact cousins, the Mothers of these two were Sisters. What an adventure I am having here, should have left it alone by now, but intriguing little bits pop up so I have to check them all to make sure my findings are all correct. Would a person by the name of 'GOUGH' [near enough] pronounce it as GOWE ever? I've found a typed death in FreeBMD which seems to have done this. 1892 The husband married again just after. 1894
