Olive Meadows

  Birth Notes:

Ref: Leicester/Dec 1885/7a/182
Listed as aged 35 (she was 42) in 1928 when she travelled to Hong Kong with her daughter Josephine aged 11.

  Death Notes:

Ref: Aldershot/Sep 1958/6b/21, listed as widow of Wilfrid Hayley Spark Hatten, schoolteacher. Informant was D M Pellin, owner of Wimble Hill House.
No will on file at Probate Office,

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1891, Leicester Leicestershire [Spa Place Humberstone Road]. ¹²

• Census, 1901, Epsom Surrey [Cuddington]. ¹³

• Census, 1911, Leicester Leicestershire [Gladwynne London Road]. ³

• Occupation: Teacher in arts and crafts, 1914. ⁸

• Residence, 1914, Esquimalt British Columbia Canada. ⁸

• Residence, 1928, Loughborough Leicestershire. ⁵

• Occupation: Matron, 1928. ⁵

• No Name, 3 Mar 1928, Hong Kong China. ⁵

• Residence, 1937, Singapore. ⁸

Olive married Wilfrid Hayley Spark Hatten, son of Rev. Charles William Hatten M.A. and Rozalie Jane Palmer de Verinne, on 10 Jun 1914 in Victoria British Columbia Canada [Christ Church Cathedral].⁵⁹ (Wilfrid Hayley Spark Hatten was born in Mar 1886 in Bodle Street Green Herstmonceux East Sussex ¹³ and died on 25 Sep 1952 in Bexhill-on-Sea East Sussex [Peter House Nursing Home] ^1,9.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Residence, 7 Nov 1916, Victoria British Columbia Canada [1202 Fort Street]. ¹

  Marriage Notes:

Bridegroom listed as age 30 (he was actually 28), and bride as 28 (correct).
Wilfrid was living in Shanghai, China, in 1939, returned to England on his own and died in Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex in Sep 1952. Olive returned to England from Singapore at some stage and died in Farnham, Surrey, in Jun 1958.