Vera Allen

Vera De Brath

• Birth date 05 Jul 1894
• Baptism date 15 Aug 1894
• Daughter of Ernest and Edith Anna Beatrice De Brath
• Parent's occupation Captain 32nd Pioneers
• Residence Lidwells, Goudhurst, Kent, England

[Record source Goudhurst baptisms 1558-1911, Record set Kent Baptisms, Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers),

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Subcategory Births & baptisms, Collections from United Kingdom - Kent Family History Society]

Birth Year of Registration: 1894

• Name: Vera De Brath
• Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
• District: Cranbrook
• County: Kent, Sussex

1901, 31 March England Census: living at "Hazelmere", Ratten Road, Eastbourne, Sussex:

• Edith 35 Living on own means, b. Simla, India
• Edith 14, b. MianMer India
• Neville 8, b. Simla, India
• Vera 6, b. Goudhurst, Kent
• Hilda Wallace - Governess aged 25

1911 UK Census lists them living at 'Bendochy', Ellesmere Road, Weybridge, Surrey:

• Ernest - Head of Household, married, M 52, Major-General Indian Army, born Forrest Hill S.E. London
• Edith - Wife, married, aged 45, born Simla India
• Vera - daughter, single F 16, born (registered) Cranbrook, Kent, UK
• and one servant.

20 Dec 1913

• Name: Vera De Brath
• Birth Date: abt 1892
• Age: 21
• British Passenger. Country of last residence: Canada
• Port of Departure New York, New York, United States
• Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
• Arrival Date: 20 Dec 1913
• Ports of Voyage: Fishguard
• Ship Name: Caronia

1916 Married Percy H. Mills Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1916 Registration district: Wandsworth, Surrey

1921 Divorced after five years

Five years later

1926, September - married Arthur N. Allen.

Divorced?

1936 The London Gazette notice

Vera renounced the surname Allen to be henceforth known as Vera De Brath as per Deed Poll recorded (www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34341/pages/7464/page.pdf)

1938 British Phone Book: Mrs V. DeBrath of Humrah Cottage, Greyshott (Should not have been Mrs.)

1958, August 19 Death

"De Brath (otherwise Allen), Vera / The Chalet, Mull Cottage, The Village, Denham, Bucks,

formerly of The Caravan, Doccombe, Moretonhampstead, Devon, Feme Sole (Femme Sole)" 19th August 1958

[source London Gazette Issue 41507 published on the 29 September 1958. Page 61 of 64]

"England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966", the 1958 probate entry for Vera DE BRATH describes her as "single woman".