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#13810, Bridget (Biddy) Margaret HOARE

Born 1900
Died 1983

Third daughter of William Douro Hoare, CBE, JP, of Guessens, Welwyn, Hertfordshire.

Bridget was actively involved with work for the WRVS and Red Cross; in the 1939-45 War, Somerleyton Hall was for a few months used as a sailors' convalescent home and then occupied by the RAMC and used as an advanced dressing station.

Bridget Hoare died in hospital and her ashes are buried at Somerleyton. There is a memorial tablet and window in her memory in Somerleyton Church.

Taken from the family records of Robert (Robin) Morley Fletcher (1935-2015)

(Vanessa Griffith June 2019)

Timeline

Born

Married Francis (Frank) Savile CROSSLEY in St Mark's, North Audley Street, London

Birth of Daughter, Mary CROSSLEY

Birth of Son, Savile William (Bill) CROSSLEY

Birth of Son, Richard Nicholas (Nick) CROSSLEY

Death of husband, Francis (Frank) Savile CROSSLEY

Died 1983