Person:Winifred Carter (5)

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Winifred Clara Carter
m. 1945
  • HReuben Lewis1904 - 1985
  • WWinifred Clara Carter1918 - 1982
m. 1966
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Name Winifred Clara Carter
Gender Female
Birth[1] 27 Jun 1918 Luton, Bedfordshire, England
Census[2] 29 Sep 1939 Luton, Bedfordshire, England70 Boyle Street
Marriage 1945 Luton, Bedfordshire, Englandto William Samuel Hodges
Marriage 1966 Luton, Bedfordshire, Englandto Reuben Lewis
Death[3] 1982 Luton, Bedfordshire, England

Winifred Clara Carter was born on 27th June 1918 at Luton in Bedfordshire, daughter of Sarah Ann Carter, formerly West, and her husband Arthur Carter, a machine shop inspector. At the outbreak of the Second World War the Winifred was living with her parents and sister at 70 Boyle Street in Luton and working as a milliner. It is quite likely she had lived at that address her whole life to that point, as her father had been listed there in the 1918 electoral register.

In 1945 Winifred married William Samuel Hodges. They do not appear to have had any children. Electoral registers show that they lived at 246 North Street in Luton from at least 1947 onwards. They were married for about nineteen years. William died in 1964, aged 55. The 1966 electoral register only lists Winifred at 246 North Street.

Two years later Winifred married again, to a widower named Reuben Lewis, who had two adult children from his first marriage. He had been a near neighbour of Winifred for some years before the war; he had lived at 76 Boyle Street with his first wife from the late 1920s to the late 1930s, before moving to 28 Somerset Avenue some time between 1937 and 1939. After their marriage Winifred and Reuben remained at 28 Somerset Avenue for the rest of their lives.

Winifred and Reuben were married for about sixteen years. Winifred died in 1982, aged 63. Reuben outlived her by three years.

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

    b. Winifred Clara CARTER, September Quarter 1918, Luton Registration District, Volume 3b, page 524, mother's surname West

  2. General Register Office. 1939 Register
    Luton Municipal Borough, 29 Sep 1939.

    Address: 70 Boyle Street, Luton, Bedfordshire
    Carter, Arthur / male / 2 Oct 1889 / married / Machine Shop Inspector (Heavy W[orker]
    Carter, Sarah A. / female / 11 Aug 1888 / married / Unpaid Dom[estic] Duties
    Carter [later changed to Hill], Muriel S. / female / 20 Aug 1913 / single / Milliner, Hat
    Carter [later changed to Hodges, then Lewis], Winifred C. / female / 27 Jun 1918 / single / Milliner, Hat

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

    d. Winifred Clara LEWIS, March Quarter 1982, Luton Registration District, Volume 9, page 536, b. 27 Jun 1918