See also

Family of Cecil Sapseid and Ellen Gertrude Wright

  • Husband:

  • Cecil Sapseid (1906-1981)

  • Wife:

  • Ellen Gertrude Wright (1907-1986)

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • Q1 1929

  • Wandsworth "Registration District", London, England1

Husband: Cecil Sapseid

  • Name:

  • Cecil Sapseid2 3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Richard Valentine Sapseid (1867-1932)

  • Mother:

  • Annie Eliza Mayhew (1870-1928)

  • Birth:

  • 23 Oct 1906

  • Eastbourne, East Sussex, England2 4 5

  •  

  • 1955 emigration record says born on 23rd October 1908

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 4)

  • 12 Seaside, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England4

  •  

  • son living in seven rooms with his parents Richard and Annie, (half-)sister Dorothy, and a servant. Born in Marlebone (sic) London (it looks like they swapped his place of with that of sister Dorothy)

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 14 yrs 8 mns)

  • 12 Seaside, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England5

  •  

  • son attending school and living in nine rooms with his parents Richard and Annie, (half-)sister Dorothy, sister Myra, and uncle James Mayhew. Born in Eastbourne Sussex

  • Emigration:

  • 25 Oct 1951 (age 45)

  • from Southampton, Hampshire, England to Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa6

  •  

  • on the Athlone Castle as Mr C Sapseid of The Old Orchard Midway Watford Road St. Albans, travelling with Mrs Sapseid and Miss Sapseid to HR?

  • Emigration:

  • 23 Jun 1955 (age 48)

  • from Southampton, Hampshire, England to Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa7

  •  

  • on the Arundle Castle as Mr C Sapseid a hotelier of London travelling with Mrs Sapseid and Miss Sapseid to NR?, born on 23rd October 1908

  • Death:

  • 25 Oct 1981 (age 75)

  • Western Cape, South Africa3

  •  

  • husband of Marjorie G Sapseid

Wife: Ellen Gertrude Wright

  • Name:

  • Ellen Gertrude Wright8 1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 25 Nov 1907

  • Hartley Wintney "Registration District", Hampshire, England8 9 10

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 31)

  • The Cat, Lent Rise, Slough, Buckinghamshire, England9

  •  

  • married as Gertrude doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her husband Charles, and a closed record (possibly son Barry). Born on 25th November 1907

  • Death:

  • 30 Dec 1986 (age 79)

  • Surrey "North Western Registration District", Surrey, England10 11

  • Probate:

  • 6 Apr 1987

  • Probate Registry, Brighton, East Sussex, England11

  •  

  • of Flat 42 Homebeech House Mpunt Hermon Road Woking Surrey died 30th December 1986, probate of £57,002 (~£141,000 in 2017)

Note on Marriage

Divorce assumed as both remarried

Note on Wife: Ellen Gertrude Wright

Following the assumed divorce from Cecil, Ellen married Charles Tyler (1907-1981) in Battersea registration district in the third quarter of 193712 13

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Wandsworth 1929 quarter:1 volume:1d page:645. Cit. Date: 1 November 2023.

2.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Eastbourne 1906 quarter:4 volume:2b page:72. Cit. Date: 31 October 2023.

3.

Ancestry - South Africa, Estates Death Index, 1999-2014. South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town estste no:8689/1981. Cit. Date: 1 November 2023.

4.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:4826 class:RG78 piece:208 registration district:71 sub-district:2 enumeration district:14 schedule:214. Cit. Date: 31 October 2023.

5.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:4710 registration district:71 sub-district:2 enumeration district:12 schedule:232. Cit. Date: 1 November 2023.

6.

FindMyPast Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). 1951 South Africa Western Cape Athlone Castle. Cit. Date: 1 November 2023.

7.

Ibid. 1955 South Africa Western Cape Arundle Castle. Cit. Date: 1 November 2023.

8.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hartley Wintney 1908 quarter:1 volume:2c page:193. Cit. Date: 2 November 2023.

9.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:2147E page:16 line:12 letter code:DWJG. Cit. Date: 2 November 2023.

10.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Surrey North Western 1986 quarter:4 register:1286 volume:17 page:568. Cit. Date: 2 November 2023.

11.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Brighton 1987 page:8060 no:8751305080F. Cit. Date: 2 November 2023.

12.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Battersea 1937 quarter:3 volume:1d page:1277. Cit. Date: 2 November 2023.

13.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). South East Hampshire 1981 quarter:2 volume:20 page:1498. Cit. Date: 2 November 2023.