Freda Charlotte Mary Yeo was born in Hampshire in 1922 to parents Frederick Frank Yeo and Ada Mary Barter [note 1].
The 1939 Register for Southsea, Hampshire lists 16-year-old Freda C.M. Yeo at 26 Abingdon Road. She is recorded as a shop assistant, living in the household of her stepfather, painter’s labourer Sidney E. Godwin. Also listed are:
– Freda’s mother Ada M. Godwin
– Freda’s sister, 34-year-old Doris A.M. Hay [note 2].
This census, taken on the eve of the Second World War, was used as a reference source for many years – the new surnames of women who later married can be seen as handwritten annotations on most pages [note 3]. Freda has two surnames marked against her name: King and Madden: the latter is mis-spelt and should be Hadden.
Freda married Randolph King in 1942, and Jack Hadden in 1974. She lived until 2009; her second husband survived her.
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Notes
1. Frederick Frank Yeo (1883–1922, son of Alfred Yeo and Alice Hunter, birth registered as Frederick Harry Yeo). He married Ada Mary Barter in 1903 and died in 1922. Ada later married Sidney Ernest Godwin.
2. Doris is also recorded as a shop assistant. Doris Ada Mary Yeo (1905–1996) had married Thomas Popplewell in 1931 and John Hay in 1937.
3. See The 1939 Register.