KNOX, Bernadette Marie

1913 - 2002

Bernadette Marie Knox was born at Lewisham, London on 18 January 1913, daughter of Andrew Knox (1884-), a securities clerk for the Anglo Egyptian Bank, and his wife Hilda Marion Peck (27 October 1885-15 June 1990), who was born in Southwold, Suffolk and who married at Croydon in 1912 and in 1921 they were living at 13 Courtney Road, Croydon, Surrey. In 1939, Bernadette was a bookkeeper at Southwold Town Hall, living at 41 High Street, Southwold, Suffolk with her widowed mother Hilda and sibling Desiree Marion Knox, (21 January 1916-20 June 1991). As Bernadette Marie Knox, she married at Southwold in 1946, Eric John Percy Beavan (11 July 1910-28 October 1965), an ironmonger, and they lived at 15 Halesworth Road, Reydon, Southwold. An amateur artist who painted a portrait of Ernest George Naunton, Town Clerk of Southold 1920–1945, now in Southwold Museum. Bernadette Marie Beavan died in the Great Yarmouth district on 29 November 2002.

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