Bertha Louisa Hamlin

  General Notes:

Bertha was baptised on the same day as her brother George. She attended Lark Hall Lane School in Lambeth from 1 July 1898.

Bertha and her first husband Walter Henry Baggarely had three children - Percival Walter Henry Baggarley (born 1913 and died in 1980 in Bromley, Kent) Stanley F Baggarley (born in 1916) and Albert John Baggarely. Bertha had no children wirth her second husband.

From the Edinburgh Gazette of 30 July 1918: 318435 Corporal Walter Henry Baggarley
Royal Garrison Artillery (Ipswich).

Walter Henry Baggarely died in 1968 (aged 79) so it looks like he and Bertha were divorced as she re-married Richard Dobie in 1951. On the 1939 Register Bertha was living was Richard Dobie (born 14 February 1888) who would later become her second husband, Richard was previously married to Gertrude Elizabeth Vanstone, he married her on 13 September 1914 at St Peter's Church, Hornsey, Middlesex but she died two years later in 1916. Richard Dobie died in 1962 aged 74 and he had a child with Bertha called Iris Dobie who was born in 1934.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: 17 Octavia Street, 1891, Battersea, London.

• Education: Lark Hall Lane School, 1 July 1898, Lambeth, Surrey.

• Residence: 16 Acanthus Road, 1901, Battersea, London.

• Residence: 61 Goodinge Road, 2 April 1911, Islington, London.

• Residence: 79 Wandsworth Road, 1912, Lambeth, Surrey.

• Marriage: to Walter Henry Baggarley, 25 December 1912, St Anne, South Lambeth, Surrey.

• Residence: 79 Burghley Road, 1939, Hornsey, London.

• Marriage: to Richard Dobie, 28 July 1951, Register Office, Wood Green, Middlesex.

• Residence: 32 Mount Road, 1955-1956, Hendon, Middlesex.

• Residence: 10 Mount Road, 1957-1963, Hendon, Middlesex.

• Residence: 25 Borthwick Road, 1964-1965, Hendon, Middlesex.