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Personal data Wilma Ethel (Billy) Reffell 

  • She was born on October 28, 1904 in St. George's Hanover Square, London. England.Source 1
    Birth Vol 1a page 433 St Georges Hanover Sq. Dec Qtr 1904

    See baptism Cert.
  • She was baptized on January 8, 1905 in St. Gabriel's Warwick Square, Pimlico, London.
    Name: Wilma Ethel Reffell
    Age: 0
    Birth Date: Abt 1905
    Baptism Date: 8 Jan 1905
    Baptism Place: St Gabriel, Warwick Square, Pimlico, London, Westminster, England
    Search Photos: Search for 'St Gabriel, Warwick Square, Pimlico' in the UK City, Town and Village Photos collection
    Parish as it Appears: St Gabriel's, Pimlico
    Father: William Alfred Reffell
    Mother: Ethel Elizabeth Reffell
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1911: 24 Sutherland Street, Belgrave, London.Source 2
      RG14PN452 RG78PN15 RD5 SD2 ED20 SN40

      Census Transcript Household London 1911 Address 24 Sutherland Street S W Civil Parish St George, Hanover Square Sub District Belgrave
      Registration District St George, Hanover Square Image Reference RG14 - PN452 RD5 SD2 ED20 SN40 Found 7 Results.
      Forename Surname Age Year Born Gender Relation Marriage Status Years Married Birth Place Occupation
      William Alfred Reffell 34 1877 Male Head Married Soho, London Taxi Driver
      Ethel Elizabeth Reffell 34 1877 Female Wife Married 13 Belgravia, London
      Fitzroy Alfred Reffell 12 1899 Male Son Belgravia, London
      Esther Thornton Dawson Reffell 8 1903 Female Daughter Belgravia, London
      Wilma Ethel Reffell 6 1905 Female Daughter Belgravia, London
      Jack Arkaway Reffell 4 1907 Male Son Belgravia, London
      Richard Noble Reffell 2 1909 Male Son Belgravia, London
    • in the year 1939: 8 Cumberland Street, Pimlico, London. England.
      Reffell Household (4 People)
      8 Cumberland Street , City of Westminster, London, England

      FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SUB NUMBER
      Wilma (E) Kearney 28 Oct 1904 Female Bookkeeping Mach Ap Widowed 24 4
      William (A) Reffell 17 Dec 1876 Male Taxi - Driver Married 24 1
      Ethel Reffell 16 Jan 1877 Female Landlady Married 24 2
      Robin (M) Reffell 23 May 1913 Male Despatch Clerk Single 24 3
    • in the year 1956: 911 Harrow Road, Wembly, Middlesex.
      SEE PHOTO
    • in the year 1990: 116 Fairfax Avenue, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
  • She died on January 2, 1990 in Claro, Yorkshire. England, she was 85 years old.Source 1
    Name: Wilma Ethel Kearney Birth Date: 28 Oct 1904 Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 1990 Age at death (estimated): 85 Registration district: Claro Inferred County: North Yorkshire Volume: 2 Page: 2101
  • Probate on January 15, 1990 naar Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. England.
    Effects Not Exceeding ¹100,000.

    Name: Wilma Ethel Kearney
    Death Date: 2 Jan 1990
    Death Place: Harrogate
    Probate Date: 15 Jan 1900
    Probate Registry: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • A child of William Alfred Reffell and Ethel Elizabeth Dawson
  • This information was last updated on July 11, 2022.

Household of Wilma Ethel (Billy) Reffell

She is married to Howard Clement Kearney.

They got married on 2ND Q 1928 at St. George's Hanover Square, London. England, she was 23 years old.Source 1

Marriage St George Hanover Sq.. Vol 1a page 1166 June Qtr 1928
Name: Howard C Kearney Spouse Surname: Reffell Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1928 Registration district: St George Hanover Square Registration county (inferred): Middlesex Volume Number: 1a Page Number: 1166

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wilma Ethel (Billy) Reffell

Richard Alfred Reffell
1852-1902
Emma E. Noble
1849-1914
HENRY ROBERT DAWSON
1849-1897
ESTHER THORNTON
1851-1937

Wilma Ethel (Billy) Reffell
1904-1990

1928

Howard Clement Kearney
1904-1932

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    Sources

    1. Reffell Family History Website (mail@reffell.org.uk)
    2. 1911 Census England, 2nd April 1911

    Historical events

    Birthday October 28, 1904

    • The temperature on October 28, 1904 was between 2.1 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
      • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
      • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
      • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
      • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
      • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
      • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.

    Christening day January 8, 1905

    • The temperature on January 8, 1905 was between -0.2 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
      • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
      • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
      • May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
      • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
      • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
      • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

    Day of death January 2, 1990

    • The temperature on January 2, 1990 was between -0.8 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
      • February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
      • March 18 » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
      • June 30 » East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
      • July 27 » The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.
      • October 2 » Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
      • October 3 » The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
    

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