COE, Nellie Elizabeth Dorothy
Nellie Elizabeth Dorothy Coe was born at 17 Carr Street, Ipswich on 6 November 1891, only daughter of Alfred Coe, a cabinet maker, and his wife Bessie Thurston née Parsons, who at married at Tacket Street Congregational Chapel on 7 February 1891. Nellie was educated at Ipswich High School for Girls and studied at Ipswich School of Art, passing her examinations and won a prize in 1909 for her 'drawing of plant form'. In 1911, a student, living at 49 Christchurch Street, Ipswich with her parents, 51-year-old Alfred and 42-year-old Bessie, with a boarder and a servant. An artist whose works, together with those of Beatrice Mary Steel, were exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1913 'works from the Ipswich Art School' which included Nellie's 'Head from Life'. She married at Ipswich on 14 June 1917, Juan Carlos Misquith (20 November 1891-4 February 1917), Royal Field Artillery, who was born at Madras, India and as a lieutenant was killed in action on 4 February 1917 in Belgium during the First World War. Nellie married secondly at East Grinstead, Sussex in 1920, James Brian Patrick Ferrand, D.S.O. (29 March 1895), a captain pilot in the RAF who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1895, and was a prisoner of war from 1917 for the remainder of the War. Giving their address as 49 Christchurch Street, Ipswich in 1922, when Nellie and James sailed on the 'Demerara' from Liverpool for the River Plate, Brazil, on their way to Argentina where they were living in 1935. Nellie Elizabeth Dorothy Ferrand died at Tooting Bec Hospital, London on 1 July 1968, leaving her estate to beneficiaries in Ipswich.