Can anyone narrow down date of this Q2 1926 marriage in London?

[nicdigby]

Caution here I think ??

Peggy K Richardson married
Philip Digby 1947
Edmonton

So is the funeral notice referring to this Peggy born circa 1924, birth found Peggy K Richardson 1924, your Peggy K was born 1926

ER'S  show your Peggy Digby at 245 Walmer Road W11

Can anyone else check this out please, as always I stand to be corrected

Louisa Maud

Ah I was going by the probate record showing the lady who died on 29 Nov 2016.

This is not the correct person, my Peggy was born surname Digby. I have now found her correct death date - 3 Dec 2014 - and am trying to find her exact birth date.

[nicdigby]

Maybe Newspapers.com don't have many of the UK newspapers for that time.

Here's one of the 1942 reports

Thanks very much for this

[louisa maud]

Where did you find her death?

Louisa Maud

[Ladyhawk]

Caution here I think ??

Peggy K Richardson married
Philip Digby 1947
Edmonton

So is the funeral notice referring to this Peggy born circa 1924, birth found Peggy K Richardson 1924, your Peggy K was born 1926

ER'S  show your Peggy Digby at 245 Walmer Road W11

Can anyone else check this out please, as always I stand to be corrected

Louisa Maud

Ah I was going by the probate record showing the lady who died on 29 Nov 2016.

This is not the correct person, my Peggy was born surname Digby. I have now found her correct death date - 3 Dec 2014 - and am trying to find her exact birth date.

So this is her probate entry

Peggy Kathleen Digby
Death date   03 Dec 2014
Probate date   08 Sep 2015
Registry   Ipswich Suffolk
Grant and will

[carol8353]

This is not the correct person, my Peggy was born surname Digby. I have now found her correct death date - 3 Dec 2014 - and am trying to find her exact birth date.

I think the one who died in 2014 is the Peggy nee Richardson who married Philip Digby in 1947.
The will was probated in Ipswich,which points to a lady of that name living in Bishops Stortford with said husband.

How do you know who she left money to,if you've only just ordered the will?

[Ladyhawk]

Right, I'ver had the Will of Peggy Kathleen Digby come through.

It's the correct person as she leaves her money to her mother Mary Ann Digby and uncle William if she doesn't survive them.

Mary Ann did indeed have a brother called William, as well as a father of the same first name.

The address on the Will is n17 Winterbourne House. Portland Rd, London W11.

If her mother and uncle don't survive her (which they didn't) she has split the money between five people, mainly living in W10 and W11, whom I have never heard of; so presumably her friends/support network.

I ordered up the Will and I've just gone into the find a will website and under my order it states that Peggy's date of death is 3 dec 2014.

Does this accurate date of death mean it is possible at all to know her actual birth date without ordered a copy of the birth certificate?

am trying to find her exact birth date.

As her death record hasn't been found giving her dob - I think you might have to obtain her birth certificate.

Peggy K DIGBY
Dec 1926 Kensington Volume   1A Page   188
Mother's maiden name CURD

[nicdigby]

Thanks, I may well have to.

Can anyone find the month in 1926 of the marriage of Mary Ann Curd and Sydney James Digby please?

NB: family member confirms Sydney the chauffeur of Merle Oberon was indeed our Sydney. It looks like he changed the spelling to Sidney. She recalls that he would - in the 1950s - sometimes bring his work's car home for the night ahead of picking up a star in the morning. The car? A pink Rolls Royce !!

[nicdigby]

Thanks so much to you for brining the Merle Oberon link up. I didn't know and my relatives had not mentioned it. As soon as I said Merle Oberon they both said "Oh!! Yes, I remember something or other about her and Sydney being her driver now...."

[carol8353]

Can anyone find the month in 1926 of the marriage of Mary Ann Curd and Sydney James Digby please?

It was registered in June,so could have happened in April, May or June.

If she was already pregnant it may well have taken place in a register office, you would need to purchase the cert (£11 from the GRO)