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dates

Born: 6 Nov 1904 in Coleshill
(then Berks, now Oxon)

Married: 21 May 1938 Albert Edward Henry KIDNEY at St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Gabalfa, Cardiff

Died: 11 Mar 1980 at Stratford-on-Avon Hospital, Warks

residence

Coleshill (then Berks, now Oxon); Alperton, Middx; Stratford-on-Avon, Warks

submitted by

Alex McGAHEY (great-nephew)

related faces

Harry FITCHETT (father)

Ernest Edward FITCHETT (brother)

Background information

Ivy Constance FITCHETT was born in Coleshill, Berkshire on 6 November 1904, the 11th and youngest child of Harry FITCHETT and his wife Mary Ann (née HACKER), who was more often known as Polly.

She spent the First World War years living with her Aunt Sally Fisher (nee HACKER) and Uncle John at Alperton, Middlesex as she was often mentioned in her brother Ernie’s letters home from the front line.

After that, family rumour described how she had left home with a married man, and apparently died during bombing of the Bristol area in the Second World War.  One of Ivy’s half-sisters remembers that she came to visit her father and stepmother in the early 1930s but after that all contact was lost, and even advertising in the News of The World newspaper in 1945, when her father was dying, brought no response.

Recent research has found that Ivy married an Albert Edward Henry KIDNEY on 21 May 1938 at St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Gabalfa, Cardiff.  Albert had been a widower for some 10 years at this time, and had a 12 year old son, Dennis.  Interestingly, Ivy stated on the marriage certificate that she was a spinster but that her father, Henry was deceased and had been a farmer.

It appears that they all moved to the Stratford-upon-Avon area as Albert died in 1955 at Kingley near Alcester, and Ivy died on 11 March 1980 at Stratford-on-Avon Hospital, both deaths being registered by Dennis KIDNEY. I have not found any children from the marriage and Dennis apparently died in 1993.