See also

Family of Idris Gwynne Bowen and Sanchia Grimsdale

  • Husband:

  • Idris Gwynne Bowen (1917-2004)

  • Wife:

  • Sanchia Grimsdale (1919-2007)

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • Q4 1946

  • Surrey "Mid Eastern Registration District", Surrey, England1

Husband: Idris Gwynne Bowen

  • Name:

  • Idris Gwynne Bowen2 1 3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 9 Jun 1917

  • Troedyrhiw, Glamorgan, Wales2 4 5 3

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 4 yrs 0 mns)

  • 34 Greenfield Terrace, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales4

  •  

  • son attending school and living in six rooms with his parents Emlyn and Annie. Born in Troedyrhiw Merthyr Tidfil Glamorgan

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 22)

  • 25 Mary Street, Trethomas, Monmouthshire, Wales5

  •  

  • an unmarried university student living with his parents Emlyn and Annie and a closed record. Born on 9th June 1917

  • Death:

  • 17 Dec 2004 (age 87)

  • East Staffordshire "Registration District", Staffordshire, England3 6

  • Probate:

  • 27 Jun 2005

  • Probate Registry, Birmingham, West Midlands, England6

  •  

  • grant and will, died 17th December 2004

Wife: Sanchia Grimsdale

  • Name:

  • Sanchia Grimsdale7

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Arthur Gerald Grimsdale (1889-1971)

  • Mother:

  • Constance Mercia Oakley (1892-1957)

  • Birth:

  • 27 Mar 1919

  • Uxbridge, Middlesex, England7 8 9

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 2 yrs 2 mns)

  • Rabbs Mill House, Cowley Road, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England8

  •  

  • daughter living in ten rooms with her parents Arthur and Mercia, brother John, and two servants. Born in Uxbridge Middlesex

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 20)

  • 29 Ferndale, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England9

  •  

  • unmarried seeking work and living with her parents Arthur and Constance, brother John, and five others. Born on 27th March 1919 and married a Davie, a Bowen, a Lincoln and a Ray at later dates

  • Administrator:

  • 12 Sep 1957 (age 38)

  •  

     

    Sanchia Grimsdale was appointed as an administrator at the probate hearing of Constance Mercia Oakley on Thursday on 12 September 1957 at the Probate Registry, London, England

  • Death:

  • Q2 2007 (age 88)

  • South Somerset "Registration District", Somerset, England10

Note on Marriage

Divorce assumed as both remarried

Note on Husband: Idris Gwynne Bowen

Following the assumed divorce from Sanchia, Idris married Mavis G Norman in the Holborn registration district in the first quarter of 195211

Note on Wife: Sanchia Grimsdale

Note that the 1939 register says that Sanchia also married a Davie, but I cannot find any record of this

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Surrey Mid Eastern 1946 quarter:4 volume:5g page:645. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

2.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2024, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Merthyr Tydfil 1917 quarter:3 volume:11a page:1312. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

3.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). East Staffordshire 2004 quarter:4 district:731/1 register:A40D entry:173 date:1202. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

4.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:26806 registration district:590 sub-district:2 enumeration district:15 schedule:118. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

5.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:7437B page:24 line:18 letter code:XOEG. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

6.

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). Birmingham 2005 no:1854592. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

7.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2024, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Uxbridge 1919 quarter:2 volume:3a page:44. Cit. Date: 31 May 2026.

8.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:6163 registration district:127 sub-district:1 enumeration district:27 schedule:1. Cit. Date: 31 May 2026.

9.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:1774A page:3 line:1 letter code:DIPA. Cit. Date: 31 May 2026.

10.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). South Somerset 2007 quarter:2 district:7261C register:1C001 entry:16. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

11.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Holborn 1952 quarter:1 volume:5c page:2348. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.