Mary Vera Walters
She called herself Vera Mary

 

born
1st April 1912
died
18th January 1998


She was born in Wandsworth (address unknown) She may have been illegitimate.


Her mother put her into a children's home - she could not afford to look after her!

Childrens Home - She's in this picture, but I don't know which one !
She's in this picture somewhere, maybe even as a babe in arms....


Childrens home a few years later - now she's recognisable
A few years later - front row seat !!

Vera and her younger brother Roy
However when her mother had another son, she took Vera out of the home to look after him while she worked !! Here they are at 11 and 17


she loved cats!

This must have been taken about the same time- Tom was her mothers cat. I remember the house always smelling of boiled cod !

Summer scene

This dress figures in a lot of photo's of Vera. People's wardrobes were not as well filled as ours.

here it ia again ! and yet again..

Here it is again at the seaside.
Vera's Mum always a had a cigarette....


Sent away from London during the war,,,,

WWII broke out when vera was 27 years old. She was evacuated to a small village in Kent, to be a household help to a local headmistress - Mrs Rylatt
(same dress!)

The Rylatts house

The Rylatt house
A vast improvement on
16, latchmere Road, Battersea !!

 

 

dusting...
When war ended she worked as a maid in a
Hospital in London - here she is on the right

workmates
With some of her workamtes - note
the always present cigaret!

outside the church
While working there she met and married Henry (Harry) Cockshull
29 September 1947

Vera and Janet

Two years later Janet was born 		Happy Family!
Henry, Janet and Vera at Bragbury End(about1960)

1964 - Janet left home


1970 - Henry died suddenly

 

 Vera and Ernie
Several years after Henry's death, Vera met and married Ernie

 

 

 



Vera died in 1998 

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