Child of Mabel Elizabeth and William Robert Taylor Essenhigh

01. Ella May Essenhigh

1909-05-13 b. Chatham, Kent GRO index; TNA: RG14PN3906 RG78PN149 RD47 SD1 ED22 SN274
1911 living with her parents in 6 rooms at 45 Beaconsfield Rd, Chatham RG14PN3906 RG78PN149 RD47 SD1 ED22 SN274
1921 attending school whole time; living with her family in 5 rooms at 45 Beaconsfield Rd, Chatham RG 15/04047 RD47 SD47-1 ED22 SN150
  Associate of Trinity College London, for both playing and singing 'Aunt May's Reminiscences' [the reminiscences of Mabel Elizabeth (Jarvis) Essenhigh]
  professional teacher of singing and pianoforte letter from Ernest Edward Jarvis to Margaret Eleanor Beauvoisin, transcript by Dominic Beauvoisin
1930 as soprano, won the highest award in Quartette, with her father as tenor, at the Medway Town Festival in Chatham 'Aunt May's Reminiscences'
1934-06-30 as soprano, won first prize, Madrigal for five voices, with her father as tenor, at the 23rd annual Kent Musical Festival
1935-06-22 as soprano, won first prize for mixed quartette, with her father as tenor, at the Kent Music festival
1935-11 with her father as tenor, won the highest award, Chatham Co-op Quartette
1936-06-27 Chatham Co-op Choir, 3rd prize, accompanying, with her father conducting
1936 Q3 m. Reginald Francis William Clare (1909–1968, b. Strood RD), in Medway RD GRO index; Find a Will
Children: Peter W. (1938 – after 2019) and Jean M. (1942 – after 2019), b. Dartford RD GRO index; Fawcett Family Tree
1939-09-29 unpaid domestic duties, living with her husband (school teacher (Kent Education Committee)) at Catsfield Place, Battle, Sussex 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101)
  sang in the BBC Singers, or some equivalent body, 'on the wireless', and would travel up to London regularly (from Dartford) for rehearsals and broadcasts David Cole ( 2022) My Trifles Come
1968-02-27 husband of 54 Princes View, Dartford, Kent, at the date of his death Find a Will
2006-02-22 d. Tunbridge Wells, Kent Find a Will; information from Margery O'Gorman, 2006
2006-05-05 will proved at Brighton Find a Will


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