Help with Tempsford or Sandy address on 1939 Register

[LizzieL]

I found the address by trial and error and a bit of searching with wildcards
putting * street, then * road. Once I had established it was * road, I started through the alphabet A* road etc. Luckily it began with A so didn't take too long. In a second browser window I did address search to get a list of all the streets in Bedford MB.
This Ashburnham road is the one in Bedford MB. It's quite a long road and looks like some houses have multiple households, so would be a long job with trial and error on address search to get the right number. Maybe you could find an electoral roll for 1939 to see if there are relatives names you recognise from that street.

[johnP-bedford]

Have you got an address from the death certificate of her husband William Harold Eustace Thurley who died June quarter 1939 in Biggleswade RD.....

...... it might say that wife Ethel was informant & give her address.

[johnP-bedford]

I have 1938 Bedford Directory.... there isn't an Ethel Husrley or Thurley listed in Ashburnham Road...... neither does anything similar appear in the alphabetic listing

[hanes teulu]

Apologies - "Turley! was a typo - it's "Thurley" in the newspaper report.

 

[LizzieL]

The listing for Ethel says there are two more people officially closed, implying that they were born after 1915. This would fit for a widowed lady with two children. If it is the right Ethel and she was temporarily staying with relatives they won't be her siblings, but could just be a married daughter and husband.
  William Harold Eustace Thurley marriage registration unfortunately has two Ethels as possible brides. My guess is that it's Ethel Guest.
B'wade Chronicle 26 May 1939 has brief notice of William H E's death and says the address was 4 Church Street Tempsford and said he left one son and five daughters.
That's the same street but different number to the notice of the daughter's wedding in 1941.

Is Church Street Tempsford one of the missing addresses or did Ethel move temporarily to Bedford and back to Church street but to a house down the road. I would guess Tempsford would get listed under Sandy.

[hanes teulu]

The Bedfordshire Times & Independent, 13 Dec 1940 reported the marriage of Miss Thurley (no given name), daughter of Mrs Thurley ( no given name), 7 Campbell Road, Bedford, and the late W. Thurley.

You can find the marriage on FreeBMD, with the bride's given name, to confirm if this is the family you are chasing.

Can confirm maiden name "Guest" after checking births of 2 daughters on FreeBMD

[LizzieL]

If you check that address in 1939 it gives a different Thurley family.

[LizzieL]

looking at the newspaper article for groom surname, the marriage can be found on Freebmd and Miss Thurley's forename found. It looks like she was born in 1919. her mother's maiden name matches with amarriage between a Florence and Mr William F Thurley in 1913 in Biggleswade district.

[johnP-bedford]

1938 Bedford directory has at 7 Campbell Road..... Mrs Florence Nellie Thurley

1939 Register says she's born 1889 & there are 3 other Thurleys in household plus 2 more closed records