Person:Marjorie Challis (1)

Watchers
Marjorie Edna Challis
  • HWalter Savage1907 - 1971
  • WMarjorie Edna Challis1909 - 1990
m. 1934
Facts and Events
Name Marjorie Edna Challis
Gender Female
Birth[1] 18 May 1909 Dartford, Kent, England
Census[2] 2 Apr 1911 Dartford, Kent, England60 Dartford Road
Marriage 1934 Dartford, Kent, Englandto Walter Savage
Census[3] 29 Sep 1939 Dartford, Kent, England
Death[4][5] 10 Mar 1990 Sutton at Hone, Kent, England

Marjorie Edna Challis was born on 18th May 1909 at Dartford in Kent, daughter of a bricklayer named Bertram Challis and his wife Violet. The 1911 census finds Marjorie living with her parents and two siblings in a four-roomed home at 60 Dartford Road in Dartford.

In 1934, aged 25, Marjorie married Walter Savage. The 1939 Register, taken at the outbreak of the Second World War finds them living together in Dartford. They do not appear to have had any children.

Walter died in 1971, aged 64. Immediately before his death he was living at 1 Priory Close in Dartford. Marjorie survived him by over eighteen years. Immediately before her death she was living at the Broadoak Manor nursing home in Sutton at Hone. She died on 10th March 1990, aged 80.

References
  1. Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

    b. Marjorie Edna CHALLIS, June Quarter 1909, Dartford Registration District, Volume 2a, page 658

  2. England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), (formerly the UK General Register Office.))
    Class RG14; Piece 3776; Schedule 84, 2 Apr 1911.

    Address: 60 Dartford Road, Dartford, Kent
    4 rooms occupied
    Bertram Challis, head, male, 28 [1882/3], married, Bricklayer - Building, Worker, b. Dartford, Kent
    Violet Challis, wife, female, 23 [1887/8], married 5 years, 3 children born alive, 3 children still living, b. Crayford, Kent
    Bertram Challis, son, male, 4 [1906/7], b. Dartford, Kent
    Marjorie Challis, daughter, female, 1 [1909/10], b. Dartford, Kent
    Cecil Challis, son, 1 month [1911], b. Dartford, Kent

  3. General Register Office. 1939 Register.

    Index only:
    Dartford M.B., Kent
    Walter SAVAGE, b. 1 Apr 1907
    Marjorie E. SAVAGE, b. 18 May 1909

  4. Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

    d. Marjorie Edna SAVAGE, March 1990, Gravesend Registration District, Volume 16, page 891, b. 18 May 1909

  5. England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

    1990
    SAVAGE, Marjorie Edna of Broadoak Manor Nursing Home Arnold La Sutton at Hone Kent died 10 March 1990 Probate Brighton 28 June Not exceeding £100000
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