Nora Blanche COE (1885-1970)

Name:	Nora Blanche COE
Sex:	Female
Father:	John COE (1846-1909)
Mother:	Ellen VAUGHAN (1848-1936)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	5 Aug 1885	13 Manthorpe Road,Plumstead1
Baptism	20 Sep 1885 (age 0)	St Margaret's Plumstead
Census	1901 (age 15)	Plumstead
	47 Hanover Road The 1901 Census, when Nora was 15, shows her living at 47 Hanover Rd, Plumstead, with her father John Coe, her mother Ellen, her older brothers Archibald and Frank and three male unmarried boarders.
Census	1911 (age 25)	Plumstead
	3 St Margaret's Road In 1911 Nora was the only one of the Coe offspring still living with Ellen. She described herself as a woman sorter for the Post Office, where she'd found work on leaving school, making many friends there, including Sue Spurrett and Kitty Fisher.
Death	4 Oct 1970 (age 85)	Southend On Sea
Burial	Oct 1970	Southend Crematorium

Marriage

Spouse	James Edward COLLINS (1878-1956)
Children	Evelyn Grace COLLINS (1913-2005)
	Edward Arthur COLLINS (1916-1942)
	James Dudley COLLINS (1921-1994)
Marriage	5 Jun 1912 (age 26)	St Martin In The Fields London
	On 5 June 1912 she married James Edward Collins at St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, in the presence of her mother Ellen Coe, her niece Maud Dennison, her sister-in-law Emily Collins and a James Lenn.

Individual Note

Ted and Nora lived first at Wrottesley Road, Plumstead, where Evelyn and Arthur were born, and then at Claremont, 243 Burrage Road, Dudley's birthplace. In 1928 the family moved to Leigh-on-Sea in Essex for health reasons and also to allow Ted to pursue his passion for sailing. They lived first at Marine Parade and then at Grand Parade. A great source of grief was Arthur's death in the Navy in January 1942. After Ted's death on 10 November 1956, Nora moved to a bungalow in Nursery Close, Rayleigh, to be nearer her daughter Evelyn. All her life Nora was known for her sweet, gracious nature.

Sources

1	"1901 census". RG 13 / 570. Assessment: Primary evidence.