Person:Diana Lee (2)

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m. 21 Nov 1921
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Diana Marian Lee
Married Name[3][4] Diana Marian Anderson Pelham
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1883 Pontefract Registration District, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Christening[2] 15 Apr 1883 Darrington, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Marriage 21 Nov 1921 Darrington, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandto Reginald Evelyn Welby-Pelham
Death[3][4] 29 Jun 1951 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Probate[4] 24 Sep 1951 London, England

Personal History

Diana Marian Lee,[1][2] daughter of William Frederick Lee and Renée Elizabeth[2] Milbourne Swinnerton Pilkington[1], was baptized on 15 April 1883 in the parish of Darrington, Yorkshire, England[2] (registered in the district of Pontefract[1]).

Marriage and Family

(see the Family page for references)

On 21 November 1921, Reginald Evelyn Anderson Pelham (age 38, bachelor, occ. civil servant of Tanganyika territory) of Castor, son of the Hon. Evelyn Anderson Pelham deceased, and Diana Marian Lee (age 38, spinster) of Grove Hall near Knottingley, daughter of Major William Frederic Lee, were married after banns in the church of St Luke and All Saints in the parish of Darrington, Yorkshire, England (registered in the district of Pontefract).

Death and Probate

Diana Marian Anderson Pelham of Wood End House, in the parish of Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, died on 29 June 1951 at Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington Road, in Cambridge[4] (registered in the district of Cambridgeshire[3]).

On 24 September 1951 at London, administration was granted to her husband Reginald Evelyn Anderson Pelham, administrative officer for the colonial service, Eva Renee Cathcart, spinster, and Philip Beaumont Frere, solicitor. Her effects were in the amount of £12,419-13-4.[4]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 England. General Register Office. General Index: Births Registered in England and Wales in the Months of April, May and June, 1883
    p 329.

    Lee, Diana Marian”, Pontefract dist., vol. 9c, p. 119. Also, her mother's maiden name “Milbourne Swinnerton Pilkington” (from online index).

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Church of England. Parish of St Luke and All Saints, Darrington with Wentbridge (West Yorkshire). Parish registers, 1567–2010. (Wakefield, Yorkshire: Filmed by Micro Methods, 1968)
    West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield: WDP139/1/2/2 [Register of baptisms, 1849–1946], p 91, no 703.

    Digital image in West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1910 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2252/32355_249384-00308 : accessed 25 June 2018).

    Baptisms, 1883: “April 15th Diana Marian dr. of William Frederick & Renée Elizabeth Lee [of] Grove Hall, Darrington, Esquire, [Ceremony was performed by] Digby S. Wrangham Vicar”

  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 England. General Register Office. General Index: Deaths Registered in England and Wales in the Months of April, May and June, 1951
    p 150.

    Pelham, Diana M[arian] A[nderson]”, age 68, Cambridge[shire] dist., vol. 4a, p. 215.

  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 “Wills and Administrations, 1951”, in Principal Probate Registry (London). Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration: Made in the Principal Registry and in the Several District Registries of Her Majesty's Court of Probate. (London, United Kingdom: HM Stationery Office, [1859?]–present)
    vol 6, p 392, PELHAM Diana Marian Anderson.

    Digital image in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1904/32858_635001_2099-00202 : accessed 25 June 2018).

    … of Wood End House, Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, wife of Reginald Evelyn Anderson Pelham, administrative officer of colonial service, died 29 June 1951 at Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington-road, Cambridge, probate 24 September at London, to her husband, Eva Renee Cathcart, spinster, and Philip Beaumont Frere, solicitor; effects £12,419 13s. 4d.