Jessie May Coombs 1891 - 1977

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 married Reginald Goodhew (an aircraft fitter with whom she had 4 children: Charles Thomas, Rose May, Marie Louise and Reginald Norman) at Parish Church, Hernhill on 4 Aug 19143.

During her life, she was living at Waterham Road, Hernhill on 5 Apr 1891, less than a mile from her mother Harriett Culmer, brother Frank Coombs and brother Charles Coombs who were living at Waterham, Hernhill, Kent, England6; at Red Lion Inn, Hernhill on 31 Mar 19015; in St Mary Cray, Kent, England on 2 Apr 1911; at 37 Dearne Road, Bolton-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England on 13 Nov 19164; 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. 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 10 and the daughter of the head of the household)
6. 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 0 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