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Flora Eliza Berry (1873 - 1949)

Flora Eliza Berry
Born in Deptford St Paul, Kent, England, United Kingdommap
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Died at age 76 in Swanage, Dorset, England, United Kingdommap
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Biography

Flora was born in February 1873, the fourth child and third daughter of Francis Berry and Eliza Morriss.[1] She was baptized at St. John's, Deptford on March 12.[2]

During Flora's youth her family lived at 30 Tyrwhitt Road,[3] where she attended The Blackheath School.[4][5] By 1891 her father had retired, and she was living with her parents and sister at Jubilee Villas in Walberton, West Sussex.[6] By 1901 the same group were living at New Boro in Wimborne, Dorset.[7]

Over time Flora combined her training and talents in the arts with her religious devotion, and took to writing Christian-themed novels aimed at young girls.

Year Title Synopsis
1899 In Small Corners The central figure is Phoebe, an orphan, and the reader follows her adventures first in the home and later when she goes out into the world. She is a child who early shows that she is imbued with the missionary spirit, and she quickly wins friendship as a result of her kindly acts.[8]
1903 Neta Lyall It is a story in which there is a good deal of life and incident, chiefly in the poorer parts of London. The heroine is left and orphan -- an unexpected legacy to an uncle -- and the story of her career till she becomes a power for good is one that every girl may read with profit.[9]
1904 Monica's Choice The central character is the daughter of a colonel on service in India who lives with her grandmother until her father comes home on leave. At first she is seen as a careless, selfish girl, who makes the work of governess and other almost unbearable. The change, however, when Christ enters her life is marked with fine reactions at home and school. The volume closes with a dainty love story, as fragrant as any one could wish.[10]
1930? Lettice Martyn's Crusade Tells of the influence of a woman upon the ritualistic practices in a village and upon the lives of the people with whom she came in contact.[11]

By 1906 Flora and her family were living at Grosvenor Road, Swanage, Dorset, where her mother passed away that October.[12] In the 1911 census, Flora was listed as employed as Authoress, and living with her father, sister, and 19-year-old domestic Olive May Hatten.[13]

At Swanage, Flora and her sister Clara worked with the local YWCA.[14][15] After the 1914 outbreak of WWI, the sisters took to hosting soldiers for meals and evangelical meetings.[16] During the summer of 1915, Flora also hosted her ex-con brother from Canada at the family home on Grosvenor Road.[17]

In 1917, Flora's sister Clara passed away suddenly, and her 70-year-old father was not well.[16] Flora left her position with the YWCA in order to pay closer attention to her ailing father,[18] who passed away in July 1919.[19] Flora was executor to his will, in which she received all of his estate, including the Grosvenor Road real estate, but less £1000 which was split between her North-America-resident siblings Kate and Francis.

By 1920, without family in her Grosvenor Road holdings, Flora sold some of the units,[20] continued and deepened her relationship with Olive May Hatten. By 1939 the pair were living at 4 Grosvenor Road.[21]

Flora Eliza Berry passed away in June 1949.[22] In her will she provided for her companion Olive May Hatten to remain resident at Grosvenor Road for her life, but ultimately the property and the bulk of her estate were left to religious organizations.

Sources

  1. ↑ UK GRO, Birth Record, Greenwich, Saint Paul Deptford, Kent and Surrey, 1873, No. 182
  2. ↑ London Metropolitan Archives, St. John's Deptford District Register, Baptisms, 1873, Page 197, No. 1575
  3. ↑ UK 1881 England Census, St. Paul Deptford, Greenwich, Page 29, Household 106 (Class: RG11; Piece: 713; Folio: 94; Page: 29; GSU roll: 1341166)
  4. ↑ Blackheath School Of Art, Kentish Mercury, October 14, 1887
  5. ↑ Blackheath High School For Girls, Kentish Mercury, December 21, 1888
  6. ↑ UK 1891 England and Wales Census, Walberton, West Sussex, Page 19, Household 125 (Class: RG12; Piece: 843; Folio: 29; Page: 19; GSU roll: 6095953)
  7. ↑ UK 1901 England Census, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, Page 18, Household 117 (Class: RG13; Piece: 1976; Folio: 69; Page: 18)
  8. ↑ Aberdeen Press and Journal, April 24, 1935
  9. ↑ Scotsman, October 12, 1903
  10. ↑ Falkirk Herald, March 9, 1935
  11. ↑ Aberdeen Press, December 24, 1930
  12. ↑ UK GRO, Death Record, Wareham, Swanage, Dorset, 1906, No. 190
  13. ↑ UK 1911 England Census, 8 Grosvenor Road, Swanage Dorset, Schedule No. 62 (Class: RG14; Piece: 12300; Schedule Number: 62)
  14. ↑ Swanage, Bournemouth Guardian, February 24, 1912, Page 7
  15. ↑ Swanage, Bournemouth Guardian, February 8, 1913, Page 12
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 The Late Miss Berry, Bournemouth Guardian, February 10, 1917, Page 6
  17. ↑ UK, Ship's Manifest, SS Sicilian, Arrived London June 16, 1915 from Montreal, Page 2
  18. ↑ Y.W.C.A. Presentation, Bournemouth Guardian, December 8, 1917
  19. ↑ UK GRO, Death Record, Wareham, Swanage, Dorset, 1919, No. 98
  20. ↑ Swanage Dorset, Important Sale Of Valuable Freehold..., Western Gazette, May 21, 1920
  21. ↑ UK 1393 Register, E.D. Letter Code WKOA, Swanage, District 261-3, No. 200
  22. ↑ UK GRO, Death Record, Poole, Wareham, Dorset, 1949, No. 273




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