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The death of Ivy Aveling was registered at Sittingbourne in 1970, with her year of birth recorded as 1911. The year matches the birth of an Ivy Yeo registered at Oswestry to parents John Yeo and Emma Mugford [note 1].
The 1939 Register records Ivy Yeo at 108 Winchip Street, Canterbury, a single woman, occupation ‘Waitress Hotel’. – she appears to be lodging with Henry and Emma Wall. Her date of birth is an exact match to the 1970 death registration.
The 1939 Register was used as a reference source for many years, in particular when the welfare state was being established in the late 1940s but also as late as the 1980s. For this purpose, women’s married surnames were added to it later, typically in capital letters and distinctly coloured ink. The word AVELING is marked against Ivy’s entry, together with the annotation ‘NR230 DIZ 13546’. This clearly links the 1970 death registration to the 1911 birth registration.
The annotation in the 1939 Register might indicate a 1946 marriage, but there is no record of the marriage in England or Wales in any year – so did they marry elsewhere, or perhaps not marry?
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Note
1. John and Emma had two other children: Gladys May Yeo (1902–1973, married Edmund Harrison and John Clark) and Alonso Thomas Yeo (1906–1907).