02. Olga Sturge| 1876-06-26 | b. Montserrat, West Indies | GRO index; censuses |
| 1881 | not found in census | |
| 1891 | college, of York Lodge, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, living with her mother, her sister Elfrida, her cousins Dorothea and Catherine M. Richardson, a cook, and a housemaid | TNA: RG 12/2048 f16 p27 |
| 1892-12-23 | attended the funeral of Lydia Sturge, at Charlbury fbg | Oxfordshire Weekly News, 1892-12-28 |
| 1898-06-24 | member of the Guild of the Cheltenham Ladies' College; present at the biennial gathering | Cheltenham Chronicle, 1898-06-25 |
| 1901 | living on own means, one of ten boarders at St Hilda, Old Nichol St, Bethnal Green, London | RG 13/287 f93 p11 |
| 1903-09-02 | bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister Olga, at Newcastle Friends' Meeting House | Gentlewoman, 1903-09-12 |
| 1907-03-01 | at a meeting of the Benwell Women's Liberal Association: Miss Pease having decided to retire from the Newcastle Board of Guardians, Miss Hilda Sturge accepted an invitation from the local committee of the Women's Local Government Society to become a candidate. |
Newcastle Evening Chronicle |
| 1908-06-26 | member of the Guild of the Cheltenham Ladies' College; present at the biennial gathering | Cheltenham Looker-On, 1908-06-27 |
| 1910-07-02 | Cheltenham Looker-On | |
| 1911-03-25 |
HAWKSHEAD W.L.A.—On Saturday afternoon a meeting of members took place in the Town Hall, when Miss Hilda Sturge read an interesting paper on the Poor Law Reform. There was a fair attendance. The speaker, a relative of the secretary, Mrs. Renton, has for three years been a member of the board of Guardians at Newcastle. |
Lakes Herald, 1911-03-31 |
| 1911 | private means, social service, living in 22 rooms at The Gables, Elswick Rd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, with her aunt and uncle David and Catherine Richardson, her first cousin once removed Christopher Richardson, three servants, and a visitor | RG14PN30600 RG78PN1753 RD558 SD3 ED22 SN1 |
| 1914-05-15 | elected to the executive committee of the Newcastle and District Branch of the Victoria League | Newcastle Journal, 1914-05-16 |
| 1917-06-20 | took the chair at the women's meeting, under the auspices of the Newcastle Corporation Sanitary Society and the Newcastle branch of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, on the Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases | Newcastle Journal, 1917-06-21 |
| 1918/1929 | living with her mother and aunt Sarah Ann Richardson at 99 Elswick Road | electoral registers |
| 1921 | "acting head", home duties; living with her niece and nephew Stella and Robert Ball, and a general domestic servant, in 10 rooms at 3 Devana Terrace, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge; given the address, it looks as though she was looking after the Ball children at their home, while their parents were away | RG 15/08069 RD180 SD1 ED11 SN27 |
| 1931 | living with her mother at 'Spring Gardens', Elswick Road; Florence Helen Fuller and Edith May Marshall also registered there | electoral registers |
| 1934-12-21 | of 183 Huntingdon-road, Cambridge; one of the three executrixes of their mother's will, under which she inherited a third of the estate | Saffron Walden Weekly News |
| 1937-08-18 | no occupation, of 183 Huntingdon Rd, Cambridge; departed Southampton for New York, on the Cunard White Star Queen Mary, travelling third class | UK outward passenger lists |
| 1939-09-29 | unpaid social worker Cambridge refugees, living at 183 Huntingdon Rd, Cambridge, with a domestic helper | 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101) |
| 1954-01-29 |
The [Fire] Brigade received a call to-day to 183, Huntingdon Road, where they found there had been a small fire in the roof space, caused by a paraffin heater. The fire was already out, but the heater was severely damaged. The occupier is Mrs. [sic] Hilda Sturge. |
Cambridge Daily News |
| 1972-04-19 | of 14 Sherlock Clo., Cambridge; d. Cambridge RD | GRO index; Find a Will |
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STURGE. On April 19th, 1972, at Langdon House, Hilda Sturge, of Sherlock Close, Cambridge, in her 96th year. Friends meeting at Cambridge Crematorium on Friday, April 21st, 10.30 a.m. Garden flowers only. |
Cambridge Daily News, 1972-04-20 | |
| 1972-06-27 | will proved at Cambridge; £21,962 | Find a Will |
02. Olga Sturge| 1878-05-19 | b. Montserrat, West Indies | GRO index; censuses |
| 1881 | not found in census | |
| 1891 | scholar, living in Church St, Charlbury & Walcot, Oxfordshire, in the household of her aunt Edith M. Hollings | TNA: RG 12/1178 f20 p2 |
| 1892-12-23 | attended the funeral of Lydia Sturge, at Charlbury fbg | Oxfordshire Weekly News, 1892-12-28 |
| 1901 | living on own means, of 1 Silver St, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, with her mother, her sister Elfrida, and her aunt Sarah A. Richardson, boarding in the household of George C. Ellis | RG 13/1532 f104 p13 |
| 1903-09-02 | m. Robert Steele Ball (1869–1959, b. Dublin, Ireland, s. of Robert Stawell and Frances Elizabeth (Steele) Ball), in Newcastle upon Tyne RD | GRO index; RG14PN31297 RG78PN1795 RD574 SD1 ED1 SN36; thepeerage.com |
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MARRIAGE OF MR. R.S. BALL.—Many personal and scientific friends of the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge were present at the marriage of Sir Robert Ball's only son, Mr Robert Steele Ball, with Miss Olga Sturge, of Montserrat, West Indies, which was celebrated at the Meeting House of the Society of Friends in Newcastle. Afterwards a reception was held, and late in the afternoon the newly-married couple left for Normandy for the honeymoon |
Cambridge Daily News and Daily Telegraph & Courier, 1903-09-03 | |
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Mr. Robert S. Ball to Miss Olga Sturge. MR. ROBERT STEELE BALL, eldest son of Sir Robert S. Ball of the Observatory, Cambridge, was married to Miss Olga Sturge, daughter of Mrs. John Edmund Sturge of Maiden Cross, Hexham-on-Tyne, in the Friends' Meeting House, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on September 2nd with a simple ceremony. The bride was married in her travelling gown of white cloth, and was attended by her two sisters, the Misses Hilda and Elfrida Sturge, and accompanied by her mother and a numerous company of friends. Mr. Valentine Ball supported the bridegroom as best man. Immediately after the ceremony the newly-wedded couple left for the South Coast, en route for the Continent. The reception was held at Maiden Cross on the day previous to the wedding for the nearest friends of the bride and bridegroom, when the presents were displayed. These included many beautiful embroideries, some worked in the West Indies—the bride having been born on the beautiful Lime Estate of the Island of Montserrat. Messrs. W. and G. Buszard supplied a dainty wedding cake. |
Gentlewoman, 1903-09-12, with vignette photos of each party | |
| Children: | Stella Elizabeth (1907–2011), and Robert Sturge (1909–1940), both b. Streatham, London | GRO index; RG14PN31297 RG78PN1795 RD574 SD1 ED1 SN36; thepeerage.com, citing the Daily Telegraph |
| 1911 | living in 15 rooms at Eden Mount, Wetheral, Carlisle, Cumberland, living with her family, her mother, her aunt Sarah Ann Richardson, a nurse, a housemaid, and a cook | RG14PN31297 RG78PN1795 RD574 SD1 ED1 SN36 |
| 1921 | not found in census | |
| 1922-12-26 | of 3 Devana Terrace, Cambridge | letter from Olga Ball to Molly Richardson, possessed by Paul Thomas |
| 1922/1928 | living with her husband at 3 Devana Terrace, Cambridge | electoral registers |
| 1929/1931 | living with her husband and daughter at 3 Devana Terrace, Cambridge | |
| 1934-12-21 | of 60 Storey's-way, Cambridge; one of the three executrixes of their mother's will, under which she inherited a third of the estate | Saffron Walden Weekly News |
| 1939-09-29 |
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1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101) |
| 1959-07-23 | husband of 60 Storeys Way, Cambridge, at the date of his death | National Probate Calendar |
| 1959-09-22 | probate of her husband's will at Cambridge; co-executor with Barclays Bank | |
| 1971 Q2 | d. Cambridge RD | GRO index |
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03. Elfrida Sturge (Freda)| 1879-12-30 | b. Newcastle, Northumberland | GRO index; censuses |
| 1881 | not found in census | |
| 1891 | college, of York Lodge, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, living with her mother, her sister Hilda, her cousins Dorothea and Catherine M. Richardson, a cook, and a housemaid | TNA: RG 12/2048 f16 p27 |
| 1901 | living on own means, of 1 Silver St, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, with her mother, her sister Olga, and her aunt Sarah A. Richardson, boarding in the household of George C. Ellis | RG 13/1532 f104 p13 |
| 1903-09-02 | bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister Olga, at Newcastle Friends' Meeting House | Gentlewoman, 1903-09-12 |
| 1905 Q2 | m. John Forbes Cameron (1873–1952, college tutor, b. Auchtergaven, Perthshire, Scotland), in Newcastle upon Tyne RD | GRO index; RG 14/11585 RD234 ED5 SN19; Wikipedia |
| Children: | James (1906–1988), b. Sunderland RD; John Ronald (1908–1042), and Jane Gillian (1911–1994), both b. Chesterton RD | GRO index |
| 1911 | temporarily living in 10 rooms at Burnham Norton, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, with her family, a cook, and a nurse | RG 14/11585 RD234 ED5 SN19 |
| 1921 | home duties; living with her family, a cook, and a housemaid, in 11 rooms at The End House, Lady Margaret Road, Cambridge | RG 15/08099 RD181 SD1 ED2 SN151 |
| 1934-12-21 | of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; one of the three executrixes of their mother's will, under which she inherited a third of the estate | Saffron Walden Weekly News |
| 1939-09-29 | master of Caius College Cambridge [this was her husband's position, but the register gives it as if it were her own], living at Heacham Lodge, Docking, Norfolk, with her daughter, two servants, and four redacted individuals | 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101) |
| 1952-03-21 | husband of 12 Wilberforce-road, Cambridge, at the date of his death | National Probate Calendar; Saffron Walden Weekly News, 1952-07-27 |
| 1952-05-01 | of 12 Wilberforce Road; one of three executors of her husband's will, at Peterborough | |
| 1969-06-01 | of The End House, Lady Margaret Rd, Cambridge; d. Cambridge RD | GRO index; Find a Will |
| 1969-08-05 | will proved at Ipswich; £11,500 | Find a Will |
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