Biography of Dora Madeline SMITH
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Biography of Dora Madeline SMITH
[Ref. Q.550]
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Dora Madeline Smith was born on 13 April 1887 at in Woolwich Road, Bexleyheath. She was the youngest of the four children of John and Jessie Smith. The census of 1891 shows the family living at Ferry House in Ferry Lane, Walton in Suffolk.
By the time the census was taken in census of 1901, Dora was aged 14 and employed as a general domestic servant by Eleanor Jones at 10 Portland Terrace in Plumstead, Kent.
On 6 March 1906, Nelson married Dora Madeline Smith, daughter of the late John and Jessie Smith formerly of Bexleyheath. They had both been living in Baldwins Road on the Maypole Estate in Dartford, Nelson at number 31 and Dora at number 6. Her occupation at that time was still a domestic servant. Son Nelson James was born in 1907 and daughter Violet Madeline in 1909.
Son George Henry was born in 1911, one month before the census was taken that year. At that time the family were living at 5 Swan Row in Dartford, Kent. Nelson was employed as a night watchman for a road contactor. The census also informs that Nelson had been a cripple for seven years and it is believed that he had lost a leg therefore would have been in that condition when he married.
Daughter Edith Ann was born in 1913, Elsie May in 1916 and Hilda Jane in 1918. The 1921 census records the family and shows Nelson as a general labourer but out of work.
The electoral register for 1937 shows Dora and her family living at 12 Valley Road in Dartford. Her husband Nelson died in 1949.
When the 1939 register was taken, Dora was living at 32 Hillside Road in Crayford, Kent with some of her children. According to later electoral registers, Dora lived at 12 Highstead Crescent in Crayford in 1955 then moved to 141 Station Road in Beley the following year. She was still there in 1967 but she was in Haine Hospital in Ramsgate when she passed away on 15 May 1979 having suffered a stroke.