Myrtle Annie (Hawkins) Scott (1883 - 1975)

Born 28 Aug 1883 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Walter Frederick Scott — married 29 Apr 1909 in Anerly Methodist Church, Bromley, London, England

Descendants

Died 31 Aug 1975 at age 92 in Woodbury, Woodside Close, West Moors, Dorset, England

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Biography

• Myrtle was born in Peterborough in 1883 -- the second child of Rev. Walter Hawkins and his wife Annie Elizabeth White Hawkins.
• She led an itinerant life as a child since her father was a Wesleyan Methodist minister who moved every 3 years. Her homes included stays in Huddersfield, Camberwell (south London), Liverpool, Greenwich (south London), Hampstead (north London), and Dulwich (south London) prior to her marriage.
• By 1901 Myrtle had become a worker at a kindergarten in Hampstead, but it is not clear that she ever had formal training as a teacher.
• Myrtle married Walter Frederick Scott on April 29, 1909 at Anerly Methodist Church, Bromley, London, England. They had been informally engaged for 4 years and formally engaged for another 4 years (after she had reached the age of 21).
• By 1911 Myrtle and her husband were living at 8 Gerard Road, Barnes, in south London.
• By 1918, after the birth of their third child, Myrtle and Walter had moved to Blackheath in Greenwich, where they were to live for about the next 30 years, first at 18 Eliot Park Road and then at 11 Eliot Place.
• In about 1948 Myrtle and Walter retired to the West County, which they both loved, living at Court Cottage, Exford, for the next 15 years.
• After Walter's death in 1963, Myrtle moved to a retirement home on Ponsford Road in Minehead, Somerset, where she lived until the mid-1970s.
• She died at the home of her daughter Mary Pearl Scott Mosley on August 31, 1975, at 92 years of age.
• She is buried with her husband at the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene (also known as the Church of St. Salvyn), Exford, Somerset, England.

Sources

• Direct personal acquaintance and knowledge (Myrtle Annie Hawkins Scott was the paternal grandmother of the profile manager).
• Detailed information about this individual is available on Ancestry (see https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/19962126/person/875687787/facts).
• Birth certificate on file in England (registered at Peterborough, Northamptonshire in the July quarter 1883; see Vol. 3b, p. 237).
• Clearly identified in English census data for 1891, 1901, and 1911.
• Marriage certificate on file in England (registered at Croydon, Surrey in the April quarter 1909; see Vol, 2a, p. 665).
• Death certificate on file in England (registered at Poole, Dorset in September 1975; see Vol. 23, p. 0538).
• Identified on headstone over grave in the churchyard at the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene (also known as the Church of St. Salvyn), Exford, Somerset, England.