Arthur Sydney Page
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4th May 1906, Tonbridge Wells, Kent
Hair Dresser
War Department Constabulary
27th November 1942
36 years
Knighton Cemetery, Row V, Grave 66
NONE
Royal Ordinance Factory (Munitions), Lower Bullingham, Herefordshire.
Cause of Death: Internal haemorrhage from a gunshot wound accidentally received - Accidental death.
Certificate received from the deputy coroner for the South Division of Herefordshire.
Inquest held 15th December 1942.
Death Registered: 18th December 1942.
Beatrice Edwards
Abraham Paul Coombe Page
Lilian (nee Payne)
Herbert Reginald Stanley Page
Joseph Thomas Page
William Paul Coombe Page
Lilian Florence Amelia Page
Kathleen May Page
21st June 1904 - 22nd April 1971
2nd February 1874 - 1940
18th December 1876 - 1944
11th May 1900 - 1972
7th September 1901 - 1976
29th March 1903 - 1976
1st April 1904 - 1988
3rd January 1909 - 3rd May 1983
Married: 30th September 1931, St Barnabas Church, Bexhill, Sussex. One of the witness's on their marriage was Kate, Beatrice's mother.
Married: 1898, Maidstone, Kent
Married: Irene V Park 1927
Married: Violet R Warrener 1926
Married: Sarah M Baker 1925
Married: Alfred W Green 1931
married: Edward William Hohl 1935
Address:
Larkey Cottage, Knighton, Radnorshire
Beatrice Edwards was born in Knighton in 1904, she was one of triplets, and was the daughter of Walter Harry & Kate Edwards (nee Monnington). Walter who went by the name Harry and his wife Kate had at least 8 children.
Jessie Emma
Charles Harry
Beatrice
Maud
May
Frank
Mildred
Bertram
1900
10th March 1902
21st June 1904
21st June 1904
21st June 1904
1906
18th September 1908
18th September 1908
- 11th November 1956
- 22nd April 1971
- January 1905 - aged 6 months
- 1988
Shrewsbury Chronicle - 24th June 1904
KNIGHTON. - TRIPLETS. - On Wednesday evening the wife of Mr Harry Edwards, labourer, The Cwm, Knighton, gave birth to three children - three girls - all are doing well.
The British custom of a Royal donation, that came to be known as the "Queen's Bounty", was given to mothers who gave birth to three or more babies at one time. Queen Victoria is said to have initiated the grants 'to enable the parents to meet sudden expenses thrown on them' when triplets or quadruplets were born after she and the Prince learned of a poor woman who had recently given birth to triplets while on a visit to Ireland in about 1849. To qualify for the donation, the babies had to born alive and their parents had to be married and British subjects. After Queen Victoria's death when her son Edward became King of the United Kingdom, the grants were continued as the King's Bounty.
1957 - Bounty Discontinued
The Royal Bounty for multiple births continued until 1957, after which parents only received a congratulatory letter from the monarch. Congratulatory messages were abandoned completely in February of 1995.
Acknowledgement - The Queen's Bounty - Triplets and Quadruplets - By Barbara J Starmans
The King's Bounty was a sovereign, a one pound sterling coin, to the parents of triplets, one for each child.
Acknowledgement - Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections by John D Reid
A Sovereign in 1904 would have the spending value of £115.59 today. As Harry and Kate had triplets they would have had 3 Sovereigns, in today's money that would be worth £346.77
Acknowledgement - Bank of England Inflation calculator.
WW2 War Department Constabulary Cap Badge
Beatrice Page married Alexander George MacDonald on 5th April 1944 in St Andrew (Edinburgh)
Beatrice's probate gives a date of death different to that of her headstone.
Beatrice MacDonald of 6, Church Street, Knighton, Radnorshire, died 21st April 1971
In Loving Memory
of
ARTHUR SIDNEY PAGE
Killed on Active Service
27 Nov. 1942 aged 36 years
Also BEATRICE his wife
died 22 April 1971
aged 66 years.