Is this 'my' Emma Stanley PRICE?

[Liza115]

I think I have tracked an elusive relation to Blean, Canterbury in Kent, but I am looking for confirmation. Emma Stanley Price was born in Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland in 1882. She is listed living with her mother and sister in the Ireland censuses for 1901 and 1911. She was a VAD nurse during WW1, stationed at Napsbury Miltary Hospital and later at a military hospital in Egypt. In the 1921 census, she appears to be at Blean in Canterbury, in the household of Dr Archdale Lloyd Sharpin, although I haven't been able to see the census image yet. It looks like she and the doctor married in the September quarter of 1929, after his wife died. That Emma died of cancer two years later, aged 48, at Blean and is buried beside Archdale Sharpin at Herne Bay cemetery.
To confirm that this is indeed the Emma Stanley Price I am looking for, I want to check details about the marriage, specifically her father's name and occupation, which I know from other sources, and also the names of the witnesses, in case they are family members. Her signature, which I've seen on a family letter, is distinctive. I would like to order the marriage certificate, but with the current delays of snail mail between England and New Zealand, it could take a long time to get here. Are there any records that contain the father's and witnesses names and are available online? If Ancestry.com contains this level of detail, I can look it up at the local library, if I know it's there.

[CaroleW]

Marriage is not online but GRO online confirms the 1931 death was Emma Stanley Sharpin

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp#Results

[DCB]

There is a tree on Ancestry which has the marriage as Jul 1929 in Blean, Kent

Archdale L. Sharpin Price Blean Vol2a Page3059
Reverse has Emma S Price to Sharpin

Herne Bay Press 08 March 1941:-
"...claims against the estate of ARCHDALE LLOYD SHARPIN of "Siwa" Reculver Road. Hlllborough. Herne Bay. Kent, Physician and Surgeon...died 24th day of October 1940..."

David

P.S. Probate for Archdale is on Ancestry but no further details for Emma.

[mckha489]

Liza, do you have someone in England you could have the marriage certificate posted to? Then they can scan it and email it to you. Saves waiting for however long it might take to get here by post. (If it ever made it)

[heywood]

Would there be more than one Emma Stanley Price b 1882, Londonderry?

[Liza115]

Thanks all, for your responses. It does look like this is the right Emma.
Heywood, no, I don't think there could be more than one with that name born that year and at that place.
For several years I had thought she might be an Emma S Price listed in the 1939 register living in England with a retired, divorced nurse. On closer inspection, though, the birthdate didn't quite match. I had seen the marriage index listing for Emma S Price to Archdale Sharpin, but without the middle name it wasn't clear whether the S was for Stanley (her mother's maiden name) or something else. It was seeing her birthplace on the 1921 census that made me pretty confident it was her.
I'd still like to see the names on the marriage certificate, to see if any relatives were witnesses, because they are thin on the ground, have fairly common names and tended to move around. The published death notice just called her 'Mrs Sharpin', and she doesn't seem to have left a will. As David pointed out, her husband is in the probate calendar, but she died before him.
Thanks mckha489, for the idea of getting the certificate sent to someone in England. I have cousins there who could be my go-between.

[heywood]

I was hoping there might be a newspaper announcement but can’t see anything.
I hope you get some more family names  from the certificate. 

[DCB]

The burial does give her middle name as Stanley:-

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FN2-Q2F1

David

[Liza115]

Yes, on findagrave the middle name is Stanley but the first name they give is Emily, rather than Emma, so that was another reason why I didn't want to assume it was the right woman. (No photo available.) She was baptised Emma and does not appear in any other records as Emily.
I have received a copy of her death certificate though, which names her as Emma Stanley Sharpin, but doesn't include her maiden name.