I am in hunch_mode with this one. I have a few snippets of information provided by my grandmother many moons ago and the rest are about looking at options and possibles.
This is what I have found and includes bits of detail gleaned from my grandmother:
1. Ethel Phillips was born c1886, Bermondsey and the birth registered in St Olave, Surrey. Her parents are William Henry Phillips and Mary Phillips nee Howell.
2. William Henry Phillips died within about 3 years of the marriage and Mary Phillips nee Howell married again, having 2 more children.
3. The family moved to Walthamstow, Essex.
4. Ethel married a cinema worker (no one seemed to remember his name) and they lived in Saffron Walden, Essex. As far as I know they had only one child, a daughter known as Joyce.
Here is where the hunches come in and they may well be all a case of barking up a gum tree, but I thought the following details are worth looking at a bit more, even if only to eliminate.
I found a record for a marriage:
Sept quarter 1912
John F Goddard and Ethel Phillips, registered at W.Ham
I looked for a birth that might include the name Joyce, in Saffron Walden after the marriage:
June quarter 1914
Ethel J Goddard, maiden name of mother, Phillips, registered in Saffron Walden.
IF this is the right person, it could well be that she was named Ethel after her mother and the second Christian name showing as "J" might well be Joyce, the name she was known as.
So, moving along a bit I looked for a possible marriage for Ethel J Phillips:
1936 (not sure of the quarter)
Ethel J Goddard married Leonard A Rayment. Marriage registered at Epping.
I have one frail and elderly aunt still living who often remarked "I wonder what happened to Joyce." Joyce was her cousin. The family had lost contact just before the second world war. My grandmother tried to re-establish it but there was no reply from any of the family. I know my grandmother's other sister survived because I have traced her descendants down to the current generation. But Ethel and her daughter Joyce have so far been able to elude me.
To find Joyce and or her descendants and understand what happened to them would give my aunt a spark of interest and clear up one of the family brick walls.