Lydia was born in 1891 [1]. The 1939 registry gives her birthday as June 19. She was Helen Price's second child, born when she was 20. Lydia was baptized August 9, 1891, at the same time as her older sister Elizabeth Amelia. [2]She first appears in the census in 1901[3], with mother Helen and sister Stella.
Lydia married her cousin, William Borrett, in 1911[4]. In 1939, she is the manager of a boarding house on the Brixton Road with her husband, then totally blind. Her half-sister, Nellie Thumwood, is living with them.
Tucked in with the 1943 photo is a note by her sister Ivy, which reads "My beloved sister Lydia died on Friday October 18th 1968 at 6:30 p.m. buried on Friday October 25th in Hastings cemetery. No one can take her place. I shall always miss her. I loved her so much." [5]
Sources
see also 1939 Register
↑ Births Sep 1891
SHERWIN Lydia Helen Wandsworth 1d 561
↑ Name: Lydia Helen Sherwin
Gender: Female
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 9 Aug 1891
Baptism Place: Battersea St Stephen, Wandsworth, England
Father: Frederick Henry Sherwin
Mother: Helen Sherwin
↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9DQ-89S : accessed 20 February 2016), Lydia Sherwin in household of Louise Johansson, St Paul Deptford, London, Middlesex, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Deptford South subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
↑ First name(s) WILLIAM C
Last name BORRETT
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1911
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ WILLIAM C BORRETT married one of these people
LYDIA H SHERWIN, ETHEL K SWIFT
District WANDSWORTH
District number -
County London
Country England
Volume 1D
Page 1458
Name Lydia H Sherwin
Event Type Marriage
Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year 1911
Registration District Wandsworth
County London
Event Place Wandsworth, London, England
Volume 1D
Page 1458
Line Number 62
Lydia H Sherwin probably married one of the following people
Name William C Borrett
"England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26W4-NGB : accessed 20 February 2016), Lydia H Sherwin, 1911; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Marriage, Wandsworth, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
↑ Name Lydia H Borrett
Age 75
Birth Year (Estimated) 1893
Event Type Death
Event Date 1968
Event Place Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Event Place (Original) Sussex
Page 397
Volume 5H
Affiliate Line Number 36
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