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« on: Saturday 15 July 17 07:56 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much, JJ, for this vital piece of information. I'm not very good at deciphering these electoral rolls. She is seemingly also to be found on the electoral roll for 1964 in Battersea South, Wandsworth, but I don't see any address. I assume the electoral rolls after 1965 are not available, at least not on-line.
Thank you also, Gortonboy, for taking the trouble to look up these records. Yes, that is her death index. Her married surname is Martins and her maiden name is either Austen Lewis or Lewis. I attach a summary of the family as I assume it to be. I cannot be certain because of the variation in especially the surname.
The father is given as a mariner on all 6 baptism records. As regards Magdalene's husband, Francis Xavier Martins, I have their marriage record on 20 Jun 1928 in Calcutta, which indicates that he was born about 1896. According to family sources, he was a Portuguese sea captain, but on the records of their children, his professions were "Asst. Calcutta Ice Co.", unemployed and "motor driver", which doesn't quite correspond!
Thank you again,
Alan