Jessie GIBSON

  General Notes:

This is my "Aunt Jessie" Balch who lived in a bungalow at 17 Rosemary Avenue, West Molesey, Surrey and we used to visit her occasionally when I was younger. Until I saw the electoral role data, I never knew that she lived with my grandparents and my father.

Birth - Dec 1896 West Ham Vol 4a P117 - Jessie Gibson
- new GRO indexes list mother's name as Potter
address was Custom House 125 Freemason's Road, West Ham

1901 Census
Florence Lavinia is said to be aged 8 (actually 7) - address was 60 Sutton Court Road in Plaistow - St Andrews Parish
RG13/1572 F69 P32
Walter Gibson, Head, age 43, Dock Labourer, born Middlesex London
Fanny A Gibson, Wife, age 42,, born Middlesex London
William W M Gibson, Son, age 14,Port Labouring boy, born Essex West Ham
Ernest Gibson, Son, age 12,, born Essex West Ham
Rhoda Gibson, Daughter, age 10,, born Essex West Ham
Florence Gibson, Daughter, age 8,, born Essex West Ham
Jessie Gibson, Daughter, age 4,, born Essex West Ham

1911 census
RG14PN9441 RG78PN507B RD188 SD3 ED31 SN181
14 Dundee Road, Plaistow E Essex
Walter Gibson, Head, 55, Married, Dock Labourer, London St Georges
Fanny Gibson, Wife, 52, Married, London St Georges E
Ernest Gibson, Son, 22, Single, Ledger Clerk, Essex Custom House E
Rhoda Gibson, Daughter, 20, Single, Shorthand Typist, Essex Custom House E
Florence Gibson, Daughter, 18, Single, do Typist, Essex Custom House E
Jessie Gibson, Daughter, 14, -, -, Essex Custom House E
against Fanny it states she has been married 32 years and has had 8 children born alive, 6 living, 2 died
The house had 5 rooms
This matches with previously known information
- no infirmities shown in the final column of the form

Electoral Role 1927 & 1928 (on ancestry.co.uk)
Twickenham, South Ward
4 Heath Gardens
HO HO Earnshaw Florence Lavinia
R O Earnshaw Verdi Lindley
O O Gibson Jessie
- HO Qualification through husband's occupation
- R Residential qualification (man), O Occupational qualification

Electoral Role 1929 - 1935 (on ancestry.co.uk)
Twickenham, South Ward
4 Heath Gardens
Rw Dw Earnshaw Florence Lavinia
R O Earnshaw Verdi Lindley
Rw Ow Gibson Jessie
- Rw residential qualification (woman), Dw Qualification through husband's occupation
- R Residential qualification (man), O Occupational qualification
- Ow Occupational qualification (woman)

Electoral Role 1936 (on ancestry.co.uk)
Twickenham, South Ward
4 Heath Gardens
R O Earnshaw Verdi Lindley
Rw Ow Gibson Jessie
- Rw residential qualification (woman), Dw Qualification through husband's occupation
- R Residential qualification (man), O Occupational qualification
- Ow Occupational qualification (woman)

She is referred to in the will of her father (dated 7 April 1937) as Jessie Gibson, so presumably married after that.

Marriages Sep 1938 Staines 3a 60
Gibson Jessie to Balch
Balch Frank A to Gibson

Note the error in the surname as on the GRO index - all sources of the index say the same
Death Jan 1987
Name: Jessie Ballh
Birth Date: 25 Sep 1896
Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 1987
Age at death (estimated): 90
Registration District: Surrey Northern
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 17
Page: 320
Reg No: 187

Death Certificate (can understand why it was indexed as BALLH - writing quite unclear)
Registered in Elmbridge sub district of Surrey Northern district in Surrey
Death on Twentieth January 1987 at Cottage Hospital, West Molesey
Name : Jessie BALCH, sex: Female, maiden name : GIBSON
Date and place of birth: 25th September 1896 in West Ham, Newham
Occupation and address:
Widow of Frank Arthur BALCH a Master Woodcarver
17 Rosemary Avenue, West Molesey, Surrey
Informant : Diana Gibson, Niece of 18 Coombe Crescent, Hampton, Middx
Registered on Twenty first January 1987

1939 Register
Ref: RG101/2372G/015/12 Letter Code: EEDY Schedule 114
Deane House, Basingstoke, Hampshire
main family is that of Ellis M H Beach, a retired diplomat. Rest of household appear to be servants/lodgers
Entries 9 and 10 are
Balch Frank A, M, 25 June, 1866, M, Builder Retired
Balch Jessie, F, 25 Sept, 1896, M, Unpaid Domestic Duties

Jessie married Frank Alfred BALCH, son of James Gordon BALCH and Ann WILLIAMS, on 27 Sep 1938 in Staines, Middlesex, England. (Frank Alfred BALCH was born on 25 Jun 1866 in Church Oakley, Hampshire, England and died Jun Q 1948 in Middlesex South, Middlesex, England.)