See also

Family of Robert Lincoln Ray and Sanchia Grimsdale

  • Husband:

  • Robert Lincoln Ray (1920-1983)

  • Wife:

  • Sanchia Grimsdale (1919-2007)

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • Q1 1950

  • Wycombe "Registration District", Buckinghamshire, England1

Husband: Robert Lincoln Ray

  • Name:

  • Robert Lincoln Ray2 1 3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 5 Oct 1920

  • Eton "Registration District", Buckinghamshire, England2 3

  • Death:

  • 7 Feb 1983 (age 62)

  • Hull "Registration District", Humberside, England3 4

  • Probate:

  • 18 Jul 1983

  • Probate Registry, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England4

  •  

  • of The Gables Rectory Lane Preston Hull died 7th February 1983, probate of £49,382 (~£159,000 in 2017)

Wife: Sanchia Grimsdale

  • Name:

  • Sanchia Grimsdale5

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Arthur Gerald Grimsdale (1889-1971)

  • Mother:

  • Constance Mercia Oakley (1892-1957)

  • Birth:

  • 27 Mar 1919

  • Uxbridge, Middlesex, England5 6 7

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 2 yrs 2 mns)

  • Rabbs Mill House, Cowley Road, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England6

  •  

  • 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, England7

  •  

  • 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, England8

Note on Marriage

Divorce assumed as both remarried

Note on Husband: Robert Lincoln Ray

After the assumed divorce from Sanchia, Robert married June E Proposito in the Redruth registration district in the fourth quarter of 19699

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). Wycombe 1950 quarter:1 volume:6a page:918. Cit. Date: 31 May 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). Eton 1920 quarter:4 volume:3a page:1676. 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). Hull 1983 quarter:1 volume:7 page:1146. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

4.

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). Leeds 1983 page:7968 no:831309070C. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.

5.

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.

6.

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.

7.

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.

8.

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.

9.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Redruth 1969 quarter:4 volume:7a page:320. Cit. Date: 1 June 2026.