Wife of Leonard Mapstone - Gladys A M White

[rosie99]

To summarise,   

Birth?
June qtr 1908
Axbridge district     vol 5c, page 435
White, Gladys Ada M

Death 
Gladys Ada M Mapstone
Birth    26 March 1908
Death Registration March 1971
Age at Death 63
Weston-super-Mare reg dist
7c / 1769

The will of Gladys is also on probate site. Her address is the same as the Leonard who died in 1979,
(the one with no middle name).

The death of the 1904 one
Leonard Mapstone
Birth    3 Jan 1904
Death Registration September qtr 1979
Age at Death   75
Mendip RD
23 / 1078

It looks as though he did not remarry then 

Rosie

[Cai Thomas]

Brilliant!

I have just had a look at a few other records of hers, which now make sense.

Now to find her parents.

[LizzieL]

 If both her both and marriage were in Axbridge district, I would expect to find her in same area in 1911. she would be approx 3 years old so ought to be with parents. Don't you have her father from marriage cert?

[Cai Thomas]

This can be marked as closed now.

I have found Gladys's family

Having a closer look at the 2 possible families of the same name it turns out they are the same family. It just happens that Axbridge used to be the district and weston super mare a town, now it is actually north somerset as the county, weston super mare as the district and axbridge as the town/village. (These locations are only 10 minutes from me).

So when you look at the addresses they are all from a tiny town called Rooksbridge, Axbridge, Weston Super Mare, england, UK... a mouthful, so they were shortened.


There was luckily then a probate record of the grandparents giving the house to Gladys's spouse Leonard.

So this is nicely tucked up.

[KGarrad]

You're confusing towns, parishes and Registration Districts!

Axbridge, as a parish was in the Registration District of Axbridge from 1837 until 1936.
From 1936 it was in the Registration District of Weston-Super-Mare.

Rooksbridge itself is a village within the parish of East Brent.
The parish of East Brent was also in Axbridge RD until 1936, and then in W-S-M RD.

[Cai Thomas]

Either way, my naming of semantics, we have the correct person

Confirmed by the will/probate mentioning the relative we knew at the address etc.

Thank you!