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Personal data Gwendoline Olive Brooks 

  • She was born on April 3, 1905 in Camberwell, London. England.
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1911: 61 Tennyson Road, Gillingham, Kent.
      Name: Gwendoline Olive Brooks Age in 1911: 6 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1905 Relation to Head: Daughter Gender: Female Birth Place: Camberwell, London, England Civil Parish: Gillingham Country: England
      Street Address: 61 Tennyson Road, Gillingham, Kent Registration District Number: 47 Sub-registration District: Gillingham
      ED, institution, or vessel: 22 Piece: 3951 Household Members: Name Age Albert Brooks 34 Rosina Brooks 32
      Gwendoline Olive Brooks 6 Nellie Critch 18
    • in the year 1939: Campden Hill, The Lodge, Holly Lodge, Kensington, London..
      Name: Henry S Matthews Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Birth Date: 10 Sep 1901 Residence Year: 1939
      Address: The Lodge Holly Lodge Residence Place: Kensington, London, England Occupation: Head Gardener Line Number: 4 Schedule Number: 205 Sub Schedule Number: 1 Enumeration District: AMAL Borough: Kensington
      Registration district: S. Kensington 2. 1. Inferred Spouse: Gwendoline O Matthews Household Members Age
      Henry S Matthews 38 Gwendoline O Matthews 34
  • She died July 1965 in Lambeth, London. England, she was 60 years old.
  • This information was last updated on May 21, 2021.

Household of Gwendoline Olive Brooks

She is married to Henry John Matthews.

They got married on October 30, 1926 at The Parish Church of St. Paul, Herne Hill, London. (See Photo), she was 21 years old.

Name: Henry John Matthews Marriage Age: 25 Record Type: Marriage Birth Date: abt 1901
Marriage Date: 30 Oct 1926 Marriage Place: Herne Hill, Southwark, England Father: Henry Matthews Spouse: Gwendoline Olive Brooks

Name: Gwendoline O Brooks
Registration Date: Oct 1926
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District: Camberwell
Inferred County: London
Spouse: Henry J Matthews
Volume Number: 1d
Page Number: 1481

Notes about Gwendoline Olive Brooks

Parents were Albert Brooks and Rosina Wise

No record could be found of her birth. 21/5/2021

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Historical events

Birthday April 3, 1905

  • The temperature on April 3, 1905 was between -0.6 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
    • May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
    • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
    • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
    • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
    • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.


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