Name |
Mary Margaret Bowditch |
Birth |
19 Nov 1907 |
Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England [1, 2] |
Address: Hazel Farm |
Gender |
Female |
Baptism |
29 Dec 1907 |
Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England [3] |
Census |
2 Apr 1911 |
Evershot, Dorset, England [4, 5] |
Age: 3y |
- Living with her Grandparents, William and Sarah Bowditch.
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Occupation |
Between 1922 and 1930 |
Golders Green, London, England [6] |
Housemaid |
- Young Mollie was sent to London to work in a "Big" house when she was 14.
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Confirmation |
26 May 1922 |
Evershot, Dorset, England [4] |
Residence |
Between 1929 and 1931 |
Golders Green, London, England [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] |
Address: 31 The Ridgeway |
- The Electoral Register for 1929, shows Molly living with Robert Ernest and Edith Sarah Smith. In 1911 the Smiths had been living in 38 St Gabriels Rd, Blomesbury, Cricklewood, and Robert was shown as an Umbrella manufacturer, tracing him back he was the son of James Smith, an Umbrella and Walking Stick manufacturer originally born in Bloomsbury, who in 1881 was living in a Farm house on Milkwood Farm, in Woodford Essex. Robert died in Golders Green on the 14 April 1930, he died at Hayes Cresent Nursing home, but his addresses were given as 31 The Ridgeway and 53 New Oxford Street, as of 2014 "James Smith & Sons" still operates from the same premisies on New Oxford Street and it probably looks much as it did in 1929. Robert left over fiften thousand pounds in his will, around one million pounds today. The 1931 Electoral role still shows Molly in Golders Green with Edith along with Kathleen Edith and Marjorie Evelyn Swinstead-Smith (her daughters), but by 1932 they have a new servant, so it would seem Molly had returned home or on to another job. The Probate for Edith Sarah in 1951, sees her leaving £5227 18s 3d to Marjorie.
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31 The Ridgeway, Golders Green, London Media Date: 2012
Keywords: Picture |
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James Smith and Sons Umbrellas (2) Media Date: 2014 |
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James Smith and Sons Umbrellas 53 New Oxford Street Media Date: 2014 |
Residence |
Between 1932 and 1934 |
Evershot, Dorset, England [4] |
- She returned to Dorset at about the same time as Jack came out of the Army, Alan believes staying with her parentson her return.
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Residence |
Between 21 Jan 1934 and 1936 |
Woolcombe, Dorset, England [14, 15] |
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Residence |
Between 1936 and 1937 |
Evershot, Dorset, England [4, 15] |
Address: Fortunes Wood Farm |
Residence |
Between 1937 and 1939 |
Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England [15, 16] |
Address: 6 Dorchester Road |
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Census |
29 Sep 1939 |
Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England [16, 17] |
Address: 40 Dorchester Road |
Ancestor Count |
32 |
Descendant Count |
15 |
Occupation |
29 Sep 1939 |
Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England [16, 17] |
Unpaid Domestic Duties |
Residence |
Between 1940 and 1943 |
Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England [15, 16] |
Address: 5 Folly Road |
- Alan can remember hiding under the stairs when a German bomber dumped his bombs down the Dorchester road and blew out the glass on thier old house on Dorchester road. Jack built a shelter in the garden, but it was only a bit of tin with a thin grass covering.
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Residence |
Between 1941 and 1943 |
Yetminster, Dorset, England [15, 18] |
Address: Melbury Road |
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Residence |
Between 1943 and 1946 |
Yetminster, Dorset, England [15, 18] |
Address: Manor Farm |
- They shared the main farm house with the farmer Frank Partridge and.his family. Alan can remember the horses were called Prince and Blackbird, and Frank had a Austin 10 car with a trialler which they used to ride in the kids and not the horses. Alan used to ride the horses down to the Blacksmiths when they needed shoeing and ride them back after school.
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Residence |
1945 |
Woolcombe, Dorset, England [14, 15] |
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Residence |
Between 1946 and 1947 |
Yeovil, Somerset, England [15, 19] |
Address: 2 Swing Gate Cottages, Newton Hill, BA20 2RZ |
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Residence |
Between 1947 and 1947 |
Hinton Saint George, Somerset, England [15, 20] |
Address: Hinton Park Farm |
- The house was in a remote area, quite a long way from the village, Alan once opened as someone was knocking to discover a cow who poked her head in to see what was about.
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Residence |
Between 1947 and 1963 |
Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset, England [15, 21] |
Address: 5 Marrs Cross |
Residence |
Between 1963 and 1965 |
Brympton D'Evercy, Somerset, England [15, 22, 23] |
Address: 2 Highleaze Cottages |
- On the right as just before you reach the Brympton House turning, coming from Yeovil. Newpaper for Rita's wedding gives the address as 3 Houndstone Cottages.
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Residence |
Between 1965 and Feb 1984 |
Alvington, Yeovil, Somerset, England [15, 24] |
Address: No 4 |
Misc |
20 Jan 1984 |
Alvington, Yeovil, Somerset, England [24, 25] |
Address: 2 |
- Jack and Mollie celebrated their Golden wedding with a gathering of both children and all the grandchildren.
- Role: with
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Newspaper - Western Gazette - 1984 - Mullins Jack and Mollie Goldend Wedding
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Residence |
Between Feb 1984 and Oct 1992 |
Alvington, Yeovil, Somerset, England [15, 24] |
Address: No 4 |
Residence |
Between Oct 1992 and Jul 1994 |
Shepton Beauchamp, Ilminster, Somerset [15, 26] |
Address: 4 North Street |
- Molly moved to one of the houses owned by her grand daughter Jane's boss, Ian Hawkins.
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Residence |
Between Oct 1994 and 11 Nov 1996 |
Wincanton, Somerset, England [15, 27] |
Address: Suddon House Nursing & Residential Home, West Hill |
- Once Mollies dementia got too bad for her family to cope, she moved to Suddon House, a specialist care home in Wincation, where she seemed happy, often helping with the dusting as she had done in her youth.
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Molly |
Death |
11 Nov 1996 |
Wincanton, Somerset, England [27, 28] |
Address: Suddon House Nursing & Residential Home, West Hill |
Burial |
14 Nov 1996 |
Brympton D'Evercy, Somerset, England [22, 29] |
Age: 66y |
Address: St Nicholas Parish Church |
Person ID |
I7 |
Taubman Family Tree |
Last Modified |
11 Sep 2018 |