Bessie Gertrude BLACKMORE

  General Notes:

Births Sep 1890 Barnstaple 5b 452 Blackmore Bessie Gertrude

Birth Certificate
28 August 1890 at 18 Victoria Street Barnstaple. Bessie Gertrude, Girl, Thomas Albert Blackmore, Matilda Gertrude Blackmore formerly Hedden, Carpenter (Journeyman). The informant was T A Blackmore, father, of same address, on 29 September 1890.

Marriages Mar 1914 Wandsworth 1d 716
BLACKMORE Bessie G to Dickson
Dickson Stanley D to Blackmore
Hawkins Mary A toTallent
Tallent Arthur to Hawkins

The marriage certificate appeared to demonstrate that this was not the same Bessie Gertrude as the father's name and occupation, as well as her age, were wrong. However, on inspecting the witnesses and comparing with Bessie on the 1901 and 1911 censuses it is clear that it is the same Bessie

Marriage Certificate
Married on March 10th 1914 at Holy Trinity Church in the parish of Upper Tooting, London
Stanley Donovan Dickson, 20, Bachelor, Compositor, 57 Sayna Road. Father Robert Edward Dickson, Compositor
Bessie Gertrude Blackmore, 22, Spinster, - , 30 Lucien Road Tooting Gransney. Father William Blackmore, Farmer
Witnesses were Walter F J Hodgson (aunt's husband), W E Dickson and B Hodgson (aunt)

2nd Marriage
Marriages June 1919 Barnstaple 5b 1291
Dickson Bessie G to Morgan
Morgan Herbert D to Dickson

Death Jun 1968
MORGAN Betty G age 77 Bodmin 7a 12

1891 census
18 Victoria Street, Barnstaple
RG12/1774 F107 P6
Thomas Blackmore, Head, M, 28, Carpenter & Joiner, London Fulham
Matilda do, Wife, M, 29, , Devon Barnstaple
Thomas do, Son, , 4, , Devon Barnstaple
Bessie do, Daur, , 8mo, , Devon Barnstaple
Hannah Hedden, Boarder, Wid, 58, Laundress, Devon Bishops Tawton (actually mother in law)

1901 census
RG13/665 F55 P42
66 Kings Road, Kingston on Thames, Surrey
Walter F J Hodgson, Head, M, 37, Stationers Assistant, London Chelsea
Bessie do, Wife, M, 37, , Devonshire Barnstaple
Hannah Hedden, Mother in Law, Wid, 69, , Devonshire Bishops Tawton
Bessie G Blackmore, Niece, , 10, , Devonshire Barnstaple
Ernest Williams, Boarder, S, 26, Journalist, London Wandsworth

1911 census
RG14PN2363 RG78PN78B RD26 SD5 ED78 SN162
65 Mitcham Road, Wandsworth, London
Walter Frederic James Hodgson, Head, Married, 47, Stationer Shopkeeper, Chelsea
Bessie Hodgson, Wife, Married 22 years, 47, , Barnstaple
Bessie Gertrude Blackmore, Niece, , 20, Shop Assistant Leather Fancy Goods, Barnstaple

When her father died in 1929, probate was granted to her stepmother's sister as "being one of the closest relatives" - suggesting that Bessie had either died or emigrated. In view of the fact Bessie gave a different name for her father at her wedding it is likely that she totally lost touch with her father after he remarried

If her husband did die in WW1 then this is a likely second marriage
Marriages Jun 1919 Barnstaple 5b 1291
Dickson Bessie G to Morgan
Hitchcock Henry J to Knight
Knight Helena E to Hitchcock
Morgan Herbert D to Diskson (sic)

possible child
birth
Name: MORGAN, Stanley H Registration District: South Molton County: Devon Year of Registration: 1920 Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep Mother's Maiden Name: Blackmore Volume No: 5B Page No: 762

Bessie married Stanley Donovan DICKSON on 10 Mar 1914 in Tooting, London, England. (Stanley Donovan DICKSON was born circa Jun 1894 in Wandsworth, London, England, died on 21 Aug 1915 in Gallipoli, Turkey and was buried in Gallipoli, Turkey.)

Bessie next married Herbert D MORGAN Jun Q 1919 in Barnstaple, Devon, England.