William Edgar Stevenson - Gertrude Winifred Purchas

18 Aug 2023
Husband: William Edgar Stevenson
Born: 1851 in Kent 1 (see note 1)
Census: 1911 in London (see note 2)
Occupation: 1917 Hon. Sec. of C.E.M.S., Trumpington Branch 2 (see note 3)
Resided: 1917 - 1920 at Hayes, 144 Shelford Road, Trumpington 3,2
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Mother:
Wife: Gertrude Winifred Purchas
Married: 1914 in London 1 (see note 4)
Born: 1864 in New Zealand 4,5
Census: 1911 in Surrey (see note 5)
Occupation: 1911 Art Student
Resided: 1920 at Hayes, 144 Shelford Road, Trumpington 3
Died: 1957 in New Zealand 4,5
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Media link: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7677094
Media desc: Lives of the First World War

Sources:
(1) FreeBMD website.
(2) Parish Magazine.
(3) Electoral Register.
(4) Ancestry family tree.
(5) Find My Past (Australia) website.

Event Notes
Note (1) Jun 1851 Tonbridge 5 539
Note (2) Age 59, born Tunbridge Wells. Single, Private Means
Note (3) Item published in The Monthly Magazine for the Parishes of Little Shelford,
Stapleford and Trumpington, October 1917: Copy of C.E.M.S. Letter. Sept. 18th
1917. Dear Mrs Chapman, The Trumpington Branch of the C.E.M.S. desires to
express its sympathy with you under your grievous loss. Sgt.-Maj. Chapman was
not an inexperienced member when he joined it, as he came from the St. Paul’s,
Cambridge, Branch of the Society, and was, therefore, able to make useful
suggestions from time to time. The Non-Commissioned rank to which he had risen
was a mark of energy and ability, and his career, so suddenly cut short, was
watched by his friends with interest. After all that we can say or think, one
fact emerges from the pain and the regret which we are sure will be a perpetual
comfort to you; and this is that in company with numberless brothers at arms he
died for his Country in a noble cause. I am, yours faithfully, W.E. Stevenson
(Hon. Sec. of C.E.M.S., Trumpington Branch). Hayes, Trumpington
Note (4) Sep 1914 Marylebone 1a 1508
Note (5) Age 46, born Aukland, single. Art Student, visiting Daniel and Mary
Bayldon

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