Jessie May Coombs 1891 - 1977

A cook and the child of Edward Coombs (an ordinary agricultural labourer) and Harriett Culmer, Jessie Coombs, the second cousin twice-removed on the mother's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Hernhill, Kent, England on 13 Feb 18911,2 and was married to Reginald Goodhew (an aircraft fitter with whom she had 4 children: Charles Thomas, Rose May, and Reginald Norman, along with 1 surviving child) at Parish Church, Hernhill on 4 Aug 19143.

During her life, she was living at Waterham Road, Hernhill on 5 Apr 18916 - less than a mile from ; at Red Lion Inn, Hernhill on 31 Mar 19017; in St Mary Cray, Kent, England on 2 Apr 1911; at 137 Dearne Road, Bolton-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England on 13 Nov 19164 and in 19195; and at 18 Pine Road, Rochester, Kent on 29 Sept 19391.

She died on 3 Apr 1977 in Hernhill2.

Citations

1. 1939 Register - Findmypast (was the wife of the head of the household)
2. England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 - Findmypast
3. England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005 - Findmypast
4. British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - War Office: Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ (Microfilm Copies); (The National Archives Microfilm Publication WO363); Records created or inherited
5. Electoral Roll
6. 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 0 and the daughter of the head of the household)
7. 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 10 and the daughter of the head of the household)

To be done

Residence record for 2 Apr 1911 contains no citation

Location for 5 Apr 1891 (Waterham Road, Hernhill, Kent, England) differs from mother's (Waterham, Hernhill, Kent, England)

Listed in the residence for 13 Nov 1916, but spouse Reginald Goodhew is not

Listed in the residence for 1919, but spouse Reginald Goodhew is not

137 Dearne Road, Bolton-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England isn't found