Susan Evora Bascombe (Millard) Pritchard (1898 - 1987)

Born 1 Jan 1898 in Nassau, Bahamas

Ancestors

Wife of Ivan Joseph Lowe Sr. — married 26 Aug 1918 in Miami, Dade County, Florida

Wife of Andrew Lewis Pritchard — married 27 Oct 1937 in Broward County, Florida

Died 12 Jul 1987 at age 89 in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida

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Biography

Susie (Millard) Pritchard is part of a Bahamian family.

Susie (Millard) Pritchard has Scottish Ancestors.

Susie (Millard) Pritchard has English ancestors.

Susie (Millard) Pritchard has Spanish ancestors.

Susie (Millard) Pritchard was a Floridian.

Susan Evora Bascome Millard was born on New Year's Day 1898 in Nassau, Bahamas to Charles Felix Millard and Mary Maud Wark Millard.

Susan evidently was named after her great aunt, Susan Evora Drowley Bascome, (Drowley-43) born in 1854, also in the Bahamas, who had no children of her own.

The Millard family moved to Miami, Florida sometime before 1910 - they all appeared in the 1910 US Federal Census.

Susie married twice: first, in August 1918, in Miami, Florida to Ivan Lowe, by whom she had two sons, Ivan Joseph Lowe, Jr. and Charles Edward Lowe; and second, to Andrew Lewis Pritchard, in 1937, in Broward County, Florida. The Pritchards had a son, Elvin, born in 1938.

Susan Evora Bascome Millard Lowe Pritchard died 12 July 1987 in Miami, Florida at 89 years of age. She was buried in the Miami City Cemetery.

Research Notes

According to the Family History document from Dorothy Joan Heller, "One daughter, Susan Evora, died in infancy on Cat Island..." This could be explained if this document refers to an daughter born previously whose name was "Susan Evora," and who died in infancy on Cat Island due to "an unknown type of fever." The Susan Evora Bascome Millard, who was born on New Year's Day in 1898, could have been a younger sister who had been named after the daughter who died in infancy. Another possibility is that the author of the Family History document from Dorothy Joan Heller, which cites no written sources, has Susan Evora confused with another child of Charles and Mary. More research with additional sources is needed to clarify the details of this situation.

Sources

St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Nassau, Bahamas Birth & Baptism Records, 1898.

Family History document from Dorothy Joan Heller, descendant of Barnetts and Warks via Don Abascal, father of Rebecca Angelina Abascal Wark. A copy of this document is now in the archive of Marion Ceruti, a Wark descendant.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVVY-23R : accessed 7 October 2018), Susan E Millard in household of Charles F Millard, Miami, Dade, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 54, sheet 10B, family 272, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 158; FHL microfilm 1,374,171.

Marriage Announcement, The Miami News, Miami Florida, 16 August 1918.

"Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKCB-M82 : 25 December 2014), Ivan J Lowe and Susan E Lowe, 1930; from "Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Dade, Florida, certificate 34, volume 19, Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville.

"Florida Marriages, 1830-1993," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRZC-ZLD : 7 December 2017), Andrew L Pritchard and Susan E Lowe, 27 Oct 1937; citing Marriage, Florida, United States, Liberty County Clerk of Courts, Florida; FHL microfilm 2,115,722.

1940 United States Federal Census for Susie Pritchard, Florida, Dade, Miami 69-78.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41400667/susan-e-pritchard: accessed 10 November 2023), memorial page for Susan E Millard Pritchard (1 Jan 1898–12 Jul 1987), Find a Grave Memorial ID 41400667, citing Miami City Cemetery, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA; Maintained by J Rowan (contributor 26611594).

Acknowledgments

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