See also

Family of Keith Desmond Philip Symonds and Sylvia Irene Nancy Gillingham

  • Husband:

  • Keith Desmond Philip Symonds (1930-2019)

  • Wife:

  • Sylvia Irene Nancy Gillingham (1932-2020)

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • 26 Feb 1949

  • All Hallows Church, Landseer Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England1 2

  • Divorce:

  • 1963

  •  

Husband: Keith Desmond Philip Symonds

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Keith Desmond Philip Symonds, 1949, age 19

  • Name:

  • Keith Desmond Philip Symonds3 4 5

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • publican and restaurant owner6

  •  

  • and had his own company Keith Symonds Inns Ltd.,

    Company No:01283352

  • Birth:

  • 1 Jan 1930

  • Bosmere "Registration District", Suffolk, England1 4

  • Death:

  • 15 Oct 2019 (age 89)

  • Spring Lodge Care Home, Woolverstone, Suffolk, England5 7

Wife: Sylvia Irene Nancy Gillingham

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Sylvia Irene Nancy Gillingham, 2002, age 70

  • Name:

  • Sylvia Irene Nancy Gillingham1 8

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Frederick Dan Gillingham (1903-1983)

  • Mother:

  • Violet Olive Blanche Edwards (1901-1978)

  • Birth:

  • 1 Jul 1932

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England1 8

  • Baptism:

  • 7 Aug 1932 (age 0)

  • St. Matthew's Church, Mill Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England1

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 1937 (app)

  • Burrell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • had a narrow escape suffering just slight abrasions to her leg when knocked down by a motor-van outside her home

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 7)

  • 97 Burrell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England10

  •  

  • presumably a closed record living with her mother, sister Gloria and another closed record presumably brother Theo, and three lodgers

  • Witness:

  • 29 Mar 1948 (age 15)

  • Sylvia Irene Nancy Gillingham witnessed the marriage of Ernest John Dawson and Bluebell Valerie Kent on Monday on 29 March 1948 in Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England

  •  

  • a bridesmaid

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 31 Jan 1953

  • 97 Burrell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England1

  •  

  • was staying with her parents when they received a warning about imminent flooding (the famous 1953 East Coast tidal surge). The basement contained the kitchen and a large store room which held great supplies of bottled fruit and other foods. Whilst helping empty the store room, water burst through the door and Sylvia, who was seven months pregnant at the time, was trapped alone in rising water. She was rescued by "Big Reg" and the water rose to within 5 inches of the ceiling. The next day her father, Fred, sat in the stairs with a tiddler net trying to catch eggs which were bobbing about. This story was told live on Radio Suffolk 31 January 2013 at 16:42.

  • Death:

  • 25 Oct 2020 (age 88)

  • Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Hampshire, England11

  •  

  • at 01:00 am

  • Cremation:

  • 9 Nov 2020

  • Porchester Crematorium South Chapel, Upper Cornaway Lane, Fareham, Hampshire, England12

  •  

  • at 11:00

Note on Husband: Keith Desmond Philip Symonds

Son of Alfred Edwin Symonds (1904-1984) and Fanny Elizabeth Taylor (1902-1991). After divorcing Sylvia Keith married Jill Cantwell (?-2015) in Paddington registration district in the first quarter of 1964. They lived in Cyprus for many years and adopted a son13 14 15 16 17

Sources

1.

Sylvia Hughes nee Gillingham personal communication.

2.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1949 quarter:1 volume:4b page:1487. Cit. Date: 18 June 2017.

3.

Harold Eric Wilkinson personal contribution.

4.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Bosmere 1930 quarter:1 volume:4a page:1554. Cit. Date: 18 June 2017.

5.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Suffolk 2019 quarter:4 district:7481B entry:519721500. Cit. Date: 8 November 2024.

6.

David Eric Wilkinson.

7.

Lesley Warnes nee Hughes personal communication. telephone conversation. Cit. Date: 8 November 2024.

8.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1932 quarter:3 volume:4a page:1585. Cit. Date: 18 June 2017.

9.

Newspaper item not in an archive. probably The Ipswich Evening Star held by Sylvia. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

10.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6602E page:3 line:35 letter code:TVBN. Cit. Date: 28 April 2017.

11.

Paul Hughes personal communication. Cit. Date: 25 October 2020.

12.

David Eric Wilkinson. Attended by David and Sue Wilkinson. Cit. Date: 10 November 2020.

13.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1904 quarter:3 volume:4a page:1055. Cit. Date: 5 August 2018.

14.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1984 quarter:2 register:584 volume:10 page:2699. Cit. Date: 5 August 2018.

15.

Ibid. Ipswich 1991 quarter:4 register:1191 volume:10 page:3030. Cit. Date: 5 August 2018.

16.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Paddington 1964 quarter:1 volume:5d page:468. Cit. Date: 15 October 2017.

17.

Paul Hughes personal communication. Cit. Date: 13 June 2015.