Bertha Ada Brown (1880 - 1934)

Born 1880 in Plumstead, Kent, England

Ancestors

Died 29 May 1934 at about age 54 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

Bertha Brown was born in Plumstead, Kent, England.

1881 living at 12 Orchard Road Plumstead

Registration district: Woolwich Sub registration district: Plumstead, East ED, institution, or vessel: 15 Piece: 755 Folio: 43 Page Number: 6

Household Members:

George Brown 42 Carpenter born Middlesex Shoreditch

Matilda Brown 41 born MIddlesex Fulham

George Brown 20 Carpenter born Kent Woolwich

John Brown 19 Baker born Kent Woolwich

Matilda Brown 15 Machinist born Middx Hackney

Isabella Brown 13 born Middx Limehouse

Frederick Brown 11 born Middx Limehouse

Alice Brown 9 born Kent Plumstead

Edith Brown 5 born Kent Plumstead

Emma Brown 3 born Kent Plumstead

Bertha Brown 1 born Kent Plumstead

Emma L. Brown 8 Niece born Middx Soho

1891 living at George Muller Orphan House No. 2, Ashley Down. Bristol

Registration district: Barton Regis ED, institution, or vessel: Mullers Orphan House No 2 Piece: 1974 Folio: 91 Page Number: 3

Picture of Orphan House No. 2

About the George Muller Orphan Homes.

1901 Cook domestic living at Inglenook, Bickley, Bromley, Kent

Registration district: Bromley Sub-registration district: Bromley ED, institution, or vessel: 14 Piece: 683 Folio: 103 Page Number: 32 Household schedule number: 204

1911 Nurse Companion to Mary Haviland living at Ivy Lodge, 26 Busby Place London NW

Registration district: St Pancras Registration District Number: 9 Sub-registration district: East St Pancras ED, institution, or vessel: 4 Piece: 714

Bertha died in 1934 of Arteriosclerosis and Cerebral thrombosis. At the time of her death she was living at 115 Stoney Stanton Road Coventry, and the informant was her sister Florence.

Sources

• Birth - BROWN, BERTHA ADA (Mother WRIGHT ) GRO Reference: 1880 J Quarter in WOOLWICH Volume 01D Page 1214

• Death - BROWN, BERTHA ADA 53 GRO Reference: 1934 J Quarter in COVENTRY Volume 06D Page 752 (certificate held)

Research Notes

There were two Bertha A Browns living in Plumstead who are often confused with each other.

The marriage in Dec 1919 - Brown Bertha A (Greenham) Woolwich 1d 2743 -- Greenham Ernest W Brown Woolwich 1d 2743 relates to Bertha born in 1886 - BROWN, BERTHA ADELAIDE (Mother SURRIDGE) GRO Reference: 1886 J Quarter in WOOLWICH Volume 01D Page 1221

and not to Bertha Ada Brown born 1880, who never married and who died in Coventry as Bertha Ada Brown in 1934.