Hugh Todd Gaitskell

Date: 27 Apr 2023 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surname/tag: GAITSKELL

Transcription of 1911 England and Wales Census

• 1911 Census for 151 Woodstock Road Oxford, St Giles, Oxfordshire, England :
  Hugh Todd Naylor GAITSKELL : Cousin : Age 4 : Birth place London England.

Transcription of Marriage Certificate.

• His Marriage Registration Certificate. Marriage Certificate data (selection):

• Year of Registration :- 1937
• Marriage solemnized at :- The Register Office in the District of Hampstead in the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead
• Nbr. In register :- 24
• When married :- 9. April 1937
• Bridegroom (Husband): :- Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell
• Bride (Wife) :- Anna Dora Frost formerly Creditor
• Age: Husband :- 31 years
• Age: Wife :- 33 years
• Condition: Husband :- Bachelor
• Condition: Wife :- formerly the wife of Isaac Frost, from whom she obtained a divorce
• Occupation: Husband :- University Lecturer
• Occupation: Wife :-
• Residence at time: Husband :- 24 Harley Road
• Residence at time: Wife :- 24 Harley Road
• Father’s name: Husband :- Anthony Gaitskell (deceased) [All other dources consulted identify him as “Arthur Gaitskell”. Presumably the registrar was for some reason flustered, and wrote down the wrong name.]
• Father’s name: Wife :- Leon Creditor [His family name was entered as “Crediton” but then corrected to “Creditor”.]
• Father’s rank or profession: Husband :- Indian Civil Service
• Father’s rank or profession: Wife :- Journalist
• Church or other location and style :- in the Register Office by Licence before ….. A. J. Stephens, Deputy Registrar and Norman Jolson, Superintendent Registrar
• Registry signed :- By the parties in the presence of 2 witnesses who signed the register as follows:
• Witness 1 :- Dorothy Ashton [Almost certainly Hugh Gaitskell’s sister, Dorothy, who in 1927 had married the cricketer-politician Hubert Ashton (1898-1979): Ashton also came from a “British Indian” background, and he had attended the same school as Hugh Gaitskell.]
• Witness 2 :- Hertzel Creditor [Presumably Hertzel Creditor (1908-1983), the younger brother of the bride.]

• Document legibility :- Mostly legible

Acknowledgment

Charles Hillman for the above details.