Constance Lucy (Chellingworth) Grace (1916 - 2002)

Born 3 Mar 1916 in Greenwich, London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Albert George Grace — married Mar 1942 in Croydon, Surrey, England

Died Sep 2002 at age 86 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

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Biography

by Richard Oliver 2021

Constance was born in 1916. She was the daughter of Wallace Chellingworth and Lucy Bond.

The story of her life is one very typical of her generation. In her early adult life she was living in Croydon, Surrey, with her parents and sister Maisie. Both the daughters were employed as telephonists.

In the spring of 1942 she married, also in Croydon. Her spouse was Albert G Grace. Not much is known about the wretched chap as he was whipped off to war and - as far as can be ascertained (if it was he himself) - was smashed to bits a few days after D-Day, trying to capture some pointless French village from the Germans. He is commemorated in some war cemetery in N.W. France. His main contribution to the human race was his sole and only son, Peter J Grace, born in 1943 in Bromley, Kent, who carries (or did) the Williams gene from his great-great-grandmother Jane Louisa (Williams) Chellingworth (1827-1912). Peter may still be alive.

Constance is presumed to have brought up her "war baby" single handed, as she is not found to have remarried and - indeed - died in 2002 at the age of 86, still called Constance Lucy Grace.

Sources

• GRO INDEX : Births Jun 1916 Chellingworth Constance L Bond Greenwich 1d 1757
• GRO INDEX : Marriages Mar 1942 Grace Albert G & Chellingworth Constance L Croydon 2a 1737
• England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007.: Constance Lucy Grace, born 3-3-1916, died Sedp Qtr 2002, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, District number 5761A, Register number A21, Entry number 008