Honours / Awards ( MBE & OBE )

[Dolly_007]

Hi,

I have ancestor awarded a MBE & OBE in the 1920's,am struggling to find any further info,have tried the National Archives Web Site ( no success ) London Gazette etc .
Lil Nugent Harris (double barrel surname) had been the Editor for "Home & Country" Women's Institute publication .
In the 1922 editions the "MBE" appears for the first time after her name,WI archives do not have any further info on the award(s).
Any suggestions ?!.

Thanks
Dolly.

[KGarrad]

The London Gazette will show all the names of recipients of MBE's and OBE's, but not a citation.

Your best bet to find out what she did to achieve her award would be a local paper of the time.

[GrahamSimons]

I've had a look for this kind of information too. Failed to find anything in the archives. Did find material in local newspapers, as suggested. I'm not at all sure what happens to the paperwork.....someone must make a recommendation, committees must sift recommendations, recommended lists must be sent to No 10 or the Palace or somewhere, with some notes attached I would expect.... but where are they?

[KGarrad]

I am struggling to find the marriage, or any census returns, for the Nugent Harris's?

So, presumably they weren't known to officialdom as Nugent Harris?

Do you have any ideas as to marriage, or where they were in any census?

[rosie99]

I think she may have been Irish KG 

The Times reports after her death 'She was a member of an old Irish family'

Mrs. Nugent Harris. -     The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 02, 1952; pg. 10; Issue 52484. 

The article also states she got her OBE in the mid 1930's

She was married to Mr J Nugent Harris for over 64 years

[KGarrad]

There's an old post (2008) about her cremation at Brighton - but I'm not seeing a death, either?!

I was trying to establish what her real forename was, and therefore how she would have been addressed in the London Gazette.

[rosie99]

According to this she was
Elizabeth Frances daughter of Alderman Robert Crawford of County Sligo

The Times (London, England), Thursday, Dec 24, 1953; pg. 9; Issue 52813


Her husband was born in 1862 County Clare

[rosie99]

Could this be her death, it would tie in with the obit  and maybe the cremation 

Death December 1952   
Elizabeth F Harris
age    84    Uckfield   
5h   487

[groom]

That's her according to the Probate list:

Elizabeth Frances Harris, otherwise known as Lillie Crawford, wife of John Nugent Harris. Lived in Dane Hill and died 7th November 1952.