Beatrice Digby and Mabel Digby

[rosie99]

Well done both of you.  Brilliant finds   

[nicdigby]

I wonder if this is Mabel :

Mabel Garrett
going to 6345 Malvey , Fort Worth , Texas
age 43 ( b 1909 ) , married
nationality : Britain
arrived New York on the Queen Mary from Southampton 20 Jan 1952

The same person appears to have left New York on the Queen Elizabeth 27 Nov 1951. The Incoming Passenger List says she was going to 130 Cardinal Ave, Kingston Surrey.

This is definitely her! Yes the 130 cardinal avenue Kingston is the address of her sister, as a later poster mentions. I am so pleased, and so is my mum, thank you!

[nicdigby]

Some of the family appear to be at 16a Peabody Buildings. Peabody Avenue, Westminster in 1932
Digby,Beatrice, Harold, Helen, Mabel,Sidney James and Walter.
Some later appear to have moved to 6.Killarmey Road.
Can t see Beatrice Digby on electoral roles after 1932 but could have missed her.

Cathy

Yes that’s her.

[nicdigby]

If this is Alice?
Alice Ellen Digby
Birth   10/1901 St George Hanover Square London

I wonder if this is Beatrice?
Beatrice Eleanor Digby
Birth   26/07/1906
Death   07/1982 Colchester Essex

Colin

That’s the info I had got as well, I had her birth in 1906, her 1911 census and then the death in 1982 BUT the death is in the name of Digby so this would mean she never married. And my aunt insists she married a man called Stan and had three children.

[nicdigby]

There is a death for Beatrice Eleanor Digby in Colchester, Essex in 1982. Her birthdate is given as 26th July 1906.

Could she be Beatrice Eleanor Tucker though date of birth slightly out pre war

Marriage June qtr  1930 
Digby    Leslie C T    (Tucker)   
Tucker    Beatrice E    (Digby)
Romford    4a   1368

Births Sep qtr 1906 
Tucker    Beatrice Eleanor       
W. Ham    4a   218

She could yes. I just posted because the birthday was only a day out 

This definitely isn’t her. She wasn’t born in West Ham, she had nine siblings who are all listed as being born in Hanover gardens, Pimlico.

My aunt has now recalled Beatrice married Stan Lacy and they had three boys, Peter, Colin and John. Does this help to find her? She can’t be the West Ham Beatrice and I don’t think she can be the Beatrice who died in Colchester in 1982 unless she changed her name back to her maiden name as she is listed as Digby in the death records.

[nicdigby]

Mabel A Hartigan b 1910 fits Mabel Alice Digby , daughter of Walter Charles and Emily Elizabeth Digby,
who was born 6 Sep 1910 and baptised at St Stephen Islington

[nicdigby]

Welcome to rootschat

Baptisms give dates of birth

Beatrice 27 July 1906

Mabel 6 March 1908

Can you please tell me where you found this info? I know it's basic info but not coming up on Ancestry for me - where did you get the baptism records? I could only find the data entry version which narorws it down to three months.

[nicdigby]

I have now found Mabel's gravestone in Texas, thanks to you. She is there as Maybell "May" (she was born Mabel but never used it and was known as Auntie May); she is buried with John "Jack" Garrett which fits.

I would love to find her marriage records. My aunt says there were two marriages, one to a rich jewish man in London and then another to Jack Garrett. I can't find either.

I would love some tips as to what I am doing wrong please!

She didn't have a middle name and the Hartingan a PP has suggested above has the wrong parents and birth location.

Ancestry is coming up with a marriage record of a Mabel Digby in April 1939 to an Ernest L Hunter in Aldershot. The location doesn't fit at all; it was her first marriage so would expected her to marry near her hometown. Is there a way of seeing her actual marriage certificate for that one WITHOUT PURCHASING IT?!! Many thanks

[rosie99]

FindMyPast has the baptism images which also contain their birthdates.  They took place at St Gabriel, Warwick Square, Pimlico, Middlesex.

The Aldershot marriage is not your Mabel, you can see her record on the 1939 register. 

The Hartigan marriage has also been discounted.