See also

Family of Basil Walter Oakley and Marjorie Caroline Elizabeth Watts

  • Husband:

  • Basil Walter Oakley (1901-1975)

  • Wife:

  • Marjorie Caroline Elizabeth Watts (1903-1985)

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • 14 Sep 1927

  • St. Leonard's Church, Streatham High Road, Streatham, London, England1,2

  •  

  • Basil a bachelor working as an electrical engineer of 33 Conyers Road Streatham and son of Stanley Richard Oakley a deceased secretary. Marjorie a spinster of 45 Gleneagle Road Streatham and daughter of Claude Smith Watts a deceased clerk. Married by banns and witnessed by Evelyn Redman and Dudley E Watts

Husband: Basil Walter Oakley

  • Name:

  • Basil Walter Oakley3,4,5

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Stanley Richard Oakley (1868-1912)

  • Mother:

  • Evelyn Julia Dux (1868-1942)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • electrician then an electrical contractor6,7

  • Birth:

  • 19 Sep 1901

  • Heaton Moor, Stockport, Lancashire, England3,5,6,7,8

  • Baptism:

  • 8 Dec 1901 (age 0)

  • St. Paul's Church, St. Paul's Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Lancashire, England4

  •  

  • son of Stanley Richard Oakley (stock worker) and Evelyn Julia of Lea Road Heaton Moor

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 9)

  • 53 Highlever Road, North Kensington, London, England8

  •  

  • son living in seven rooms with his parents Stanley and Evelyn, brother Guy, his visiting aunt Octavia Dux, and a servant. Born in Heaton Moor Stockport

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 19 yrs 9 mns)

  • 2 Norman Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, England6

  •  

  • an unmarried visitor working as an electrician for A F Yarnold electrical engineers of 182 Gleneagle Road Streatham and living in five rooms with Lancelot and Daisy Spragge. Born in Heaton Moor Lancashire

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 38)

  • 48a Gracefield Gardens, Streatham, London, England7

  •  

  • a married electrical contractor living with his wife Marjorie. Born on 19th September 1901

  • Administrator:

  • 11 Sep 1942 (age 40)

  •  

     

    Basil Walter Oakley was appointed as an administrator at the probate hearing of Evelyn Julia Dux on Friday on 11 September 1942 at the Probate Registry, Winchester, Hampshire, England

  • Death:

  • 20 Oct 1975 (age 74)

  • Worthing "Registration District", West Sussex, England5,9

  • Probate:

  • 20 Jan 1976

  • Probate Registry, Brighton, East Sussex, England9

  •  

  • of 14 Walberton Court Wallace Avenue Worthing died 20th October 1975, administration with will of £5,164 (~£36,000 in 2017)

Wife: Marjorie Caroline Elizabeth Watts

  • Name:

  • Marjorie Caroline Elizabeth Watts1,2,10

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • shorthand typist then a stenographer7,11

  • Birth:

  • 8 Mar 1903

  • Tooting, London, England7,10,11,12,13

  •  

  • death index says born 3rd March 1903

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 8)

  • 67 Idlecombe Road, Tooting, London, England12

  •  

  • daughter living in five rooms with her parents Claude and Fanny, and brothers Dudley and Eric. Born in Tooting Surrey

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 18 yrs 3 mns)

  • 38 Fulham Park Gardens, Fulham, London, England11

  •  

  • unmarried granddaughter working as a shorthand typist for Messers Thresher & Glenny India & Colonial Outfitters of Strand W.C. and living in four rooms with her widowed grandmother Elizabeth French, aunts Ethel and Beatrice French, and her sister Joan. Born in Tooting Surrey

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 36)

  • 48a Gracefield Gardens, Streatham, London, England7

  •  

  • a married stenographer living with her husband Basil. Born on 8th March 1903 and married a Thompson at a later date

  • Death:

  • 12 Oct 1985 (age 82)

  • Ashford "Registration District", Kent, England13,14

  • Probate:

  • 17 Dec 1985

  • Probate Registry, Brighton, East Sussex, England14

  •  

  • of The Gazebo The Green Woodchurch near Ashforf Kent died 12th October 1985, probate of £71,927 (~£198,000 in 2017)

Note on Marriage

Divorce c1942 assumed as they both remarried in 1943

Note on Wife: Marjorie Caroline Elizabeth Watts

After divorcing Basil, Marjorie married Reginald S Thompson in London City registration district in quarter:3 194315

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Wandsworth 1927 quarter:3 volume:1d page:1187. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

2.

Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Streatham St. Leonard marriages 1902-1934 page:2 entry:4. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stockport 1901 quarter:4 volume:8a page:29. Cit. Date: 31 July 2024.

4.

FindMyPast Parish Records Collection - Baptisms, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Parish Baptisms 1538-1911 Heaton Moor St. paul page:63 entry:501. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

5.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Worthing 1975 quarter:4 volume:18 page:2423. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

6.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:3472 registration district:39 sub-district:3 enumeration district:44 schedule:168. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

7.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:0588J page:13 line:33 letter code:AXHX. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

8.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:169 class:RG78 piece:6 registration district:2 sub-district:3 enumeration district:5 schedule:70. Cit. Date: 31 July 2024.

9.

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 1976 page:6132 no:760500743G. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

10.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Wandsworth 1903 quarter:2 volume:1d page:591. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

11.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:366 registration district:38 sub-district:3 enumeration district:7 schedule:262. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

12.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:2349 class:RG78 piece:78B registration district:26 sub-district:5 enumeration district:64 schedule:261. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

13.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ashford 1985 quarter:4 register:1085 volume:16 page:96. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

14.

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 1985 page:8464 no:8551317363D. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.

15.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). London City 1943 quarter:3 volume:1c page:25. Cit. Date: 1 August 2024.