The Story So Far…

Updated by Alan Warren, October 2009

These are the 20th Century Family Events for Thomas Samuel Warren & Family, as researched by Alan Warren. Where possible, we have added the modern marvel of Google Street View.

20th February 1893
Born at 8 Station Road, Dagenham (now Chadwell Heath). He was the second youngest son of James & Julia Eleanor Warren.

CENSUS 1911 taken on 2/3 April shows:
1) James Warren and the youngest of his nine children, Albert Arthur (13) are living alone at 10 Kirks Cottages, Church Lane, Dagenham (Julia had died in 1907)
2) Alfred & Amy (Warren) Kendrick and their 2 sons and Amy’s sister Ellen and brothers William & Thomas Samuel are all living at 1, Progress House, High Street, Dagenham.
3) Miller Smith and family have moved from London to Stoughton – a village on
northern edge of Guildford. Two years later, their daughter, Norah Lilian meets
Thomas Samuel Warren for the first time in the Wooden Bridge pub – which still exists.

31st December 1913
Marries Lilian Isabel Smith (acutally Norah Lilian, 18), (born in Biggleswade, 30th June, 1895, daughter of Henrietta and Herbert Smith)  at Parish Church, Wimbledon. He (21) is living at 6 Goldcroft, Yeovil, Somerset . She was at 4, The Green, in Wimbledon, Surrey.

25 May 1914
Iris Lilian (Biddy) born at Ridgway Road, Stapleton, Bristol

14th June 1915
Thomas Horace (Sonny) born at 76 Church Lane, Charlton

12 March 1917
Phyllis Poppy born at 41 The Village, Charlton

27 January 1919
Dennis Graeme (Denny) born at 41 The Village, Charlton

13 December 1920
(Thomas) Horace baptised at St Mary’s Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

3 March 1921
Violet Norah (Blue) born at 3 Ardenham Lane, Aylesbury

September 1925
Family lodging with Miller Smith at Mark Cross (nr Tunbridge Wells) with “Blue” starting at the village Infants School. Later they moved off to Guildford

4 October 1927
Beryl Molly born at 15 Commercial Road, Guildford

12 February 1932
Ronald born at ‘Old Erringham’ Dorking Road, Great Bookham

24 July 1933
Norah Lilians father, Herbert Alfred (Miller) Smith (65) dies at Middle House, Dorking Road, Epsom (certificate says he was living at 19 GreenWays). He was buried in an unmarked paupers grave K514 Epsom Downs Cemetery

4 January 1935
Trevor born at 35 Greenways, Wells Estate, Epsom Common

15 April 1936
Norah Lilians mother Henrietta (65), known as Yetta by her sisters and Granny Grizzle by her grandchildren, dies at 58 St Philips Avenue, Worcester Park. Her death is notified by her only son, Alured Berkeley Hamilton Smith (33) of 163 Church Lane, Charlton

26 December 1938
Thomas Samuel does not attend his eldest son’s wedding but  the bride (May Edith Steel) confirms that Norah Lilian does as she is still living at Greenways on Wells Estate, Epsom

1 June 1946
Norah Lilian Warren (50) dies suddenly and is cremated. She has been separated from Thomas Samuel for some years. Her last address was 78 Stanley Road, Croydon as housekeeper. Her death was notified by Thomas Samuel in nearby Mayday Hospital.

17 March 1947
Thomas Samuel (54), a widower for 9 months, marries his housekeeper, a Scottish born spinster named Isabella Fraser (31) at Epsom Register Office

24 January 1948
Dennis Graeme Warren (28) marries Ada Georgina Cutts (19) at Epsom Register Office

 24 July 1948
Beryl Molly Warren (20) marries Peter John Gilbert Pratt (27) at Morden Register Office

27 February 1954
Trevor Warren (19) marries Elsie Boddy (21) at Epsom Register Office

25 March 1957
Thomas Samuel (64) dies in St Barts Hospital, London. He died in agony as he was poisoned by Uraemia (kidney failure) and Nephrotic Syndrome (Liver Failure) plus rheumatic heart failure. He is buried in unmarked grave S.265 at Epsom Downs Cemetery.

15 February 1958
Eldest daughter Iris Lilian (Biddy) (43) dies in St Helier Hospital

14 February 1962
Violet Norah (Blue) Rides marries Ray Karley (37) at Epsom
Register Office.

20 August 1989
Denis Graeme (70) dies in Electrona, Tasmania, from complications of his heart brought on by emphysema

1993
Phyllis Poppy dies in Adelaide, Australia

16 August 1996
Thomas Horace (81) dies in Epsom General Hospital & is
cremated

The four younger children are all still alive:

Violet (Blue) is living in Avalon Beach, Sydney, Australia and sister Beryl lives a couple of doors away in the same street. Sadly, Blue’s husband Ray Karley died as recently as 17th July 2009 (he was 84)

Beryl’s husband, Peter Pratt died in 1983

Ronald emigrated to Canada and still lives in the house he bought with wife June Turner in Ancaster in 1958.

Trevor lives close to the New South Wales / Queensland border having gone back to Australia (after returning to UK with wife Elsie & children and then getting divorced).