Hi! Further to my earlier post re my relative who died in Havana House, Whitchurch in 1935, I am having problems trying to find her from 1910-1935 ... can anyone help?
Her name was officially Prudence Harriette Hamley (nee Bielski, DOB 21 July 1860, Islington, London), but she often went by the name Pauline Hamley. Her husband John Hamley divorced her in 1910. At that time the family home was in Palmers Green, North London but Prudence/Pauline was residing at the Albion Beer House, Mill St, Crewe. She had, according to the divorce papers on Ancestry, had an affair from January to August 1904 with a Mr Shaw, at that address in Crewe. I know she was literate as she wrote a letter to her ex-husband which was in with the divorce papers.
In the 1881 Census at aged 20, and 4 months after her marriage to John Hamley, she was listed as 'Pianiste'. In subsequent census years the occupation section is blank for her, but I imagine she was busy with the three children she had with John.
I have tried all sorts of permeations of her name but cannot find a likely person in the 1911 Census.
I cannot find any trace of her from her divorce in 1910 until her burial on 28 December 1935 in Whitchurch Cemetery - the burial register states 'Hamley (or Vernon), Prudence H'. I have no idea where the surname Vernon comes into things! I have zoomed down on Google Earth and it appears there is no headstone or any sort of marker for her grave.
Can anyone find her, especially in the 1911 Census? I am assuming she was in the Shropshire area in that time, but I guess she could have been anywhere ...
Many thanks, Nina