The Orys and Cook Family Tree » Audrey Doreen Higman (1919-1987)

Personal data Audrey Doreen Higman 

  • She was born on August 5, 1919 in Tavistock, Devon. England.
    Name Audrey D Higman
    Event Type Birth Registration
    Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep
    Registration Year 1919
    Registration District Tavistock
    County Devon
    Event Place Tavistock, Devon, England
    Mother's Maiden Name (not available before 1911 Q3) Williams
    Volume 5B
    Page 509
    Line Number 127
  • Resident in the year 1939: Tote Hill, Stedham, Midhurst, West Sussex.
    Higman Household (6 People)
    Tote Hill,Stedham , Midhurst R.D., Sussex, England

    FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SUB NUMBER
    Audrey (D) Chucher (Overington,Higman) 05 Aug 1919 Female Laundress Single 27 3
    James Higman 09 Jun 1890 Male Engineer - Private Hou Married 27 1
    Jane (Mary) Higman 02 Dec 1893 Female Laundress Married 27 2
    Eileen (P) Jarvis (Higman) 04 Feb 1920 Female ??? Married 27 4
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    Eileen P Jarvis (Higman) 04 Feb 1920 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 27 4
  • She died on 1ST Q 1987 in Chichester W. Sussex. England, she was 67 years old.
    First name(s) AUDREY DOREEN Last name CHURCHER Gender Female Birth day 5 Birth month 8 Birth year 1919
    Age - Death quarter 1 Death year 1987 District Chichester Register number 287 County Sussex
    Volume 18 Page 1799 Country England
  • This information was last updated on February 1, 2018.

Household of Audrey Doreen Higman

(1) She is married to Cyril Henry William Overington.

They got married on 4TH Q 1939 at Midhurst, West Sussex. England, she was 19 years old.

Name: Cyril H W Overington
Possible Partners: Higman... District: Midhurst... County: Sussex... Year: 1939... Quarter: Oct-Dec... Volume: 2b... Page: 1841...

Name: Phyllis Harper
Possible Partners: Salmon... District: Midhurst... County: Sussex... Year: 1939... Quarter: Oct-Dec... Volume: 2b... Page: 1841...
BMD Records Marriages Name: Cyril H W Overington
Possible Partners: Higman... District: Midhurst... County: Sussex... Year: 1939... Quarter: Oct-Dec... Volume: 2b... Page: 1841...

Name Cyril H W Overington Event Type Marriage Registration Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec Registration Year 1939
Registration District Midhurst County Sussex Event Place Midhurst, Sussex, England Spouse Name (available after 1911) Higman
Volume 2B Page 1841 Line Number 40
Cyril H W Overington probably married one of the following people
Name Audrey D Higman

(2) She is married to Henry Booker Churcher.

They got married on 1ST Q 1942 at Midhurst, West Sussex. England, she was 22 years old.

First name(s) AUDREY D
Last name OVERINGTON
Marriage quarter 1
Marriage year 1942
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ AUDREY D OVERINGTON married
Henry Churcher
Spouse's last name Churcher
District Midhurst
District number -
County Sussex
Country England
Volume 2B
Volume as transcribed 2B
Page number 2407/S

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Historical events

Birthday August 5, 1919

  • The temperature on August 5, 1919 was between 10.4 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
    • February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
    • March 21 » The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
    • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
    • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
    • October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
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