Family of Arthur George Dimes and Marjorie Kent

Husband:
Arthur George Dimes (1918-1983)
Wife:
Marjorie Kent (1919-1996)
Marriage:
13 Dec 1947
Tacket Street Congregational Church, Tacket Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England¹ ² ³
Arthur was a lodger at 97 Burrell Road

Husband: Arthur George Dimes

Arthur George Dimes

Name:
Arthur George Dimes⁴ ⁵
Sex:
Male
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
2 Jul 1918
Mitford "Registration District", Norfolk, England³ ⁶ ⁷
Prisoner of War:
frm 13 Jun 1940 to 1945 (age 21-27)⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰
surviving for five years after being marched from France where he was captured, to the Czech Republic as it was then. Consequently he was never as strong as he should have been. He went to war a strong healthy man and came back almost a skeleton unable to eat much and he would not talk about the war, and almost blanked it from his mind
Death:
3 Jul 1983 (age 65)
Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England⁸ ⁷ ³
Cause: of lung cancer

Marjorie Kent

Name:
Marjorie Kent¹¹ ¹²
Sex:
Female
Father:
William George Kent (1868-1942)
Mother:
Alice Blanche Edwards (1881-1953)
Occupation:
silk machinist
Birth:
30 Apr 1919
Walton, Suffolk, England¹³ ¹¹ ¹⁴ ¹⁵ ¹⁶
1921 census says born in Felixstowe
Census:
19 Jun 1921 (age 2 yrs 2 mns)
258 High Street, Walton, Suffolk, England¹⁴
daughter living in four rooms with her parents William Kent and Alice Edwards, sister Mabel, and brother Thomas. Born in Felixstowe Suffolk
Census:
29 Sep 1939 (age 20)
46 Ranelagh Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England¹⁵ ¹⁷
an unmarried silk machinist living with her mother Alice, sister Bluebell, and brother Thomas. Born on 30th April 1919 and married an Edwards and a Dimes at later dates. This address was described as "a small and dark house but an Aladdins cave to us children" by Sylvia Gillingham
Death:
28 Feb 1996 (age 76)
Ipswich, Suffolk, England¹³ ¹⁶

1.: England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1947 quarter:4 volume:4b page:2149. Cit. Date: 2 May 2018.

2.: Sylvia Hughes nee Gillingham personal communication. email. Cit. Date: 23 May 2014.

3.: Elizabeth Goffin nee Dimes personal communication. Letter dated 31st March 2021. Cit. Date: 8 April 2021.

4.: England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1947 quarter:4 volume:4b page:2149.

5.: England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1983 quarter:3 volume:10 page:2384.

6.: England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Mitford 1918 quarter:3 volume:4b page:329. Cit. Date: 2 May 2018.

7.: England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1983 quarter:3 volume:10 page:2384. Cit. Date: 2 May 2018.

8.: Elizabeth Goffin nee Dimes personal communication. email dated 17th September 2020. Cit. Date: 18 September 2020.

9.: FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Diss Express Friday 12th July 1940 page:5. Cit. Date: 23 April 2021.

10.: FindMyPast British Army Casualty Lists 1939-1945 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). 1940 page:278. Cit. Date: 23 April 2021.

11.: England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Woodbridge 1919 quarter:2 volume:4a page:1395. Cit. Date: 2 May 2018.

12.: Janet A Tomkins nee Dawson personal communication. email. Cit. Date: 11 May 2014.

13.: Elizabeth Goffin nee Dimes personal communication. Letter dated 31st March 2021. Cit. Date: 7 April 2021.

14.: England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:9465 registration district:214 sub-district:1 enumeration district:13 schedule:76. Cit. Date: 20 June 2023.

15.: UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6602G page:24 line:37 letter code:TVBO. Cit. Date: 19 September 2020.

16.: England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1996 quarter:1 district:7471C register:C14B entry:219 date:0296. Cit. Date: 2 May 2018.