See also

Family of Arthur Douglas Peace Garwood and Nellie Mabel French

  • Husband:

  • Arthur Douglas Peace Garwood (1919-1991)

  • Wife:

  • Nellie Mabel French (1920-2015)

  • Marriage:

  • 28 Sep 1940

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Lane, Harlestone, Northamptonshire, England1,2

  •  

  • the reason the wedding was here was Nellie had been evacuated and Arthur was stationed nearby

Husband: Arthur Douglas Peace Garwood

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Arthur Douglas Peace Garwood

  • Name:

  • Arthur Douglas Peace Garwood3,4

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Arthur Charles Garwood (1892-1968)

  • Mother:

  • Jenny Ellen Norman (1894-1969)

  • Birth:

  • 28 Jun 1919

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England3,4,5

  •  

  • he was given the name Peace because signing of the Treaty of Versailles on the same day

  • Military Service:

  • btw 1940 and 1945 (age 20-26)

  • -5

  •  

  • served in the British Army and was evacuated from Dunkirk

  • Death:

  • Jul 1991 (age 72)

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England4

Wife: Nellie Mabel French

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Nellie Mabel French, 2008, age 88

  • Name:

  • Nellie Mabel French1,2,6

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Father:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • electric motor maker; E R & F Turner (Bull Motors), Foxhall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • during WWII

  • Birth:

  • 1 Jun 1920

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England2,6,7,8

  • Residence:

  • bef 2007 (age 86-87)

  • Blandford Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • until Nellie had her stroke aged 89, the previous day she was digging in her garden

  • Residence:

  • 2009 (app) (age 88-89)

  • Highcliffe House Nursing Home, 10 Cobbold Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • following a major stroke about 2007 and remained in this care home until she died

  • Death:

  • 30 Dec 2015 (age 95)

  • Highcliffe House Nursing Home, 10 Cobbold Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England9,10

  •  

  • Cause: of old age, dementia and cerebrovascular disease hastened by a stomach bug

    widow of Arthur Douglas Peace Garwood machinist, informant daughter Sheila Kathleen Mary Sewell

  • Cremation:

  • 20 Jan 2016

  • Seven Hills Crematorium, Felixstowe Road, Nacton, Suffolk, England11,12

  •  

  • at 3pm, much loved mother to Sheila and son-in-law Melvyn. grandma to Robert and Joanne and great grandma to Mia and Louis

  • Probate:

  • 1 Mar 2016

  • Probate Registry, Arcade Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England10

Note on Wife: Nellie Mabel French

parents George Edwin French (1880-1940) and Maud Alice née Aldous (1883-1974)

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Brixworth 1940 quarter:3 volume:3b page:396. Cit. Date: 10 November 2021.

2.

Sheila Garwood personal communication. family history record.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1919 quarter:3 volume:4a page:1554. Cit. Date: 10 November 2021.

4.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1991 quarter:4 register:791 volume:10 page:2593. Cit. Date: 10 November 2021.

5.

Sheila Garwood personal communication.

6.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1920 quarter:3 volume:4a page:2075. Cit. Date: 11 November 2021.

7.

Funeral service. attended by David and Susan Wilkinson.

8.

Death Certificate. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

9.

Sheila Garwood personal communication. telephone call to Molly Ransome. Cit. Date: 2 January 2016.

10.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 2016 no:4808720. Cit. Date: 10 November 2021.

11.

Ipswich Star web site, (on-line at www.ipswichstar.co.uk). Ipswich Star. Cit. Date: 6 January 2016.

12.

David Eric Wilkinson. attended with his wife Susan.