Walsh died 1945

[wimsey]

there's a current article on the BBC website about a lady in Australia trying to contact relations of a wartime colleague of hers who died in April 1945. Obviously I'm not intending to name any living relatives here but I was just attempting to work out who the deceased lady's parents were.

We are told that Margaret Walsh was 33 when she died in April 1945 and was from Hove and "it is believed" her parents were Major Patrick Walsh and Mary Margaret Walsh.

Going by Margaret's 1945 probate and the 1939 register I would say Patrick was born in 1872 and his wife's maiden name was Anning. Do you agree ?

[Sandyhall]

found a marriage for you
Marriages - Dec 1907

Patrick WALSH. Devonport 5b 742
on the same page
Mary ANNING. Devonport. 5b 742

[Sandyhall]

Is this her birth

Births - Dec 1916
Margaret V Walsh. MMN Anning. Devonport. 5b 419

[wimsey]

actually I was thinking Margaret V was a sibling of the person concerned. Its slightly confusing in that mother was Mary Margaret or Margaret Mary and I think the lady we are talking about was also Margaret Mary or Mary Margaret. If she was 33 in 1945 that would be d.o.b. 1912.

[Sandyhall]

Could this be a start.
May be more children as they married in 1907

Births - Mar 1912. Walsh Mary M Anning Devonport 5b 522

Births - Mar 1915. Walsh Albert J Anning Devonport 5b 495

*Births - Dec 1916. Walsh Margaret V Anning Devonport 5b 419*

Births -Sep 1920. Walsh Walter L Anning Devonport 5b 538

Births - Sep 1922. Walsh Josephine R Anning Devonport 5b 455

[Sandyhall]

actually I was thinking Margaret V was a sibling of the person concerned. Its slightly confusing in that mother was Mary Margaret or Margaret Mary and I think the lady we are talking about was also Margaret Mary or Mary Margaret. If she was 33 in 1945 that would be d.o.b. 1912.

I agree yes its Mary M on the list sorry I didn't work out the date of birth from the death.

[wimsey]

Patrick is clearly alive on the 1939 register but his daughter's 1945 probate is granted to her widowed mother.

[wimsey]

I think Albert J was Albert John and I'm fairly sure he died in 1968.

[Sandyhall]

So he died between 1939 and 1845 is that what you are thinking.

1939 where was he living

[wimsey]

1939 Patrick and wife in Hove, Sussex. Patrick's wife born 1887. The address on the 1939 register agrees with the address on the 1945 probate.