Photos & maps from 2005
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Gordon Road
Frogmoor
Coopers Yard, Frogmore, HW where the children were born.
1875 map showing Coopers Yard
below: No.6 Lower Hammersley Lane, far end of terrace, by the railway.
Kathleen Stratford (left) and Katie Jemmet, probably late 1930s before Kath married Kate's brother Arthur, and Kate married George.
Lily Jemmett, nee Church, death cert. 1966
Kate and Kath in Clacton, 1980s
1909 marriage, Mar ; JEMMETT Frank Wycombe
3a 1037 ; CHURCH Lily Wycombe 3a 1037
Marriage Certificate (click image):
1909. Marriage solemnized at the Register Office in the District of Wycombe
in the County of Buckingham.
Twenty ninth March
Frank Jemmett 21 years Bachelor Coachman (domestic) 18 Gordon Road, High
Wycombe, George Jemmett, Gardener (domestic)
Lily Church 27 years Spinster Domestic Servant "Lynhurst"
Loudwater, Joshua Church (deceased) Farmer carter
Married in the Register Office by certificate before me Tho Stephenson.
Registrar. B. L Reynolds Supt Registrar
This marriage was solemnized between us Frank Jemmett, Lily Church in
the presence of us Amy Jemmett, J. H. Westrup
1911 Census
JEMMETT FRANK M 1888 23 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
JEMMETT LILY F 1882 29 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
Births Jun 1912 Mordue George W Lowe Lanchester 10a 703
1912 birth Elsie E. Jemmett, Wycombe, Jun, 3a 1539
Birth certificate (right)
1912 BIRTH in the Sub-district of Wycombe in the County of Buckingham
Twenty sixth April 1912; 5 Coopers Yard, Frogmoor, High Wycombe UD.
Elsie Esther, girl, Frank Jemmett, Lily Jemmett
formerly Church, General Labourer,
F. Jemmett, Father, 5 Coopers Yard, Frogmore , High Wycombe,
Sixteenth May 1912, W.R. Butler, registrar.
1912 Death September Elsie E. Jemmett Wycombe
3a 761 (or 781?)
1913 birth Arthur Jemmett, Wycombe, Dec, 3a 1773
1913 BIRTH in the Sub-district of Wycombe in the County of Buckingham
Tenth November 1913, 5 Coopers Yard, Frogmore , High Wycombe,
Arthur Jemmett, boy, Frank Jemmett, Lily Jemmett
formerly Church, Muffin maker,
F. Jemmett, Father, 5 Coopers Yard, Frogmore , High Wycombe,
Fourteenth November 1913, W. R. Butler, registrar.
1915 birth - Katie Jemmett, June, Wycombe 3a 1834
Birth certificate (right)
1915 Birth in the Sub-district of Wycombe in the County of Buckingham
Seventeenth May 1915, 5 Coopers Yard, Frogmoor, High Wycombe UD
Katie, girl, Frank Jemmett, Chair Carman, Lily Jemmett formerly Church
J. [Jane] Jemmett present at the birth, 2 Coopers Yard, Frogmoor, High
Wycombe, Twentieth May 1915, W.R. Butler, registrar
1937 death Frank Jemmett, 49, Wycombe Dec. 3a 1350
1937 DEATH in the Sub-district of Wycombe in the County of Buckingham
Fourteenth October 1937, the War Memorial Hospital, High Wycombe UD
Frank Jemmett, male, 49 years, of 6 Hammersley Lane, High Wycombe UD,
a lorry driver.
Shock due to laceration of the brain consequent on his being run into
by a motor car and thrown from a pedal cycle which he was riding. Accidental
death. No P.M.
Certificate received from J. Bailey Gibson Coroner for South Bucks. Inquest
held 18th October 1937.
Registered Nineteenth October 1937. Geo Weston, Deputy Registrar.
Below: Margate, probably summer 1939, just before the war broke out in September. Arthur Jemmet, top left, with his girlfriend/fiance Kathleen Stratford (they married July 1940); Kath's cousin Vera Lewis and her boyfriend/fiance Keith Morriss (also married 1940) and two unknown friends of Vera's:
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1940 Marriage, Jun, Jemmett Katie (m.Mordue)
Wycombe 3a 4783
1940 Marriage solemnized at the Register Office in the District of Wycombe
in the County of Buckingham
Twenty Seventh April 1940
George William Mordue, 28 years, Bachelor, Wood
machinist, 26 Cross Roads, Castlefields, High Wycombe; George William
Mordue, Storekeeper (factory)
Katie Jemmett, 24 years, spinster, Spray polisher, 6 Lower Hammersley
Lane, High Wycombe; Frank Jemmett (deceased), Motor lorry driver.
Married in the Register Office by certificate before me F. V. Cowan, Registrar.
W. G. Ballard, Supt. Registrar.
This marriage was solemnized between us George William Mordue, Katie Jemmett,
in the presence of us, Kathleen Ruth Stratford, George William Mordue
Arthur's marriage certificate, 1940, gives his address as: 6 Lower Hammersley Lane, Loudwater, High Wycombe, where he was living with his mother and sister Katie.
1966 death: Lily Jemmett (nee Church) Jun. 1966 Wycombe 6a 457
age 84
Death cert. (right)
1966 Death in Sub-district of Wycombe in the County of Buckingham
Twenty fourth June, 1966, 6, Lower Hammersley Lane, High Wycombe
Lily Jemmett, female, 84 years, Widow of Frank Jemmett, Lorry Driver,
Furniture Manufacturers
1(a) Congestive cardiac failure (b) Auricular fibrilation, Certified by
Kenneth Wright, M.R.C.S., K. Mordue, daughter, 6 Lower Hammersley Lane,
High Wycombe, Twenty fourth June 1966, V. Harris, deputy registrar.
Kit & George Mordue continued to live at the same house until the early 1980s. Kit and George moved to Clacton-on-Sea after George died.
1992 Death: Colchester, County of Essex
Twenty Fourth August, 1992. Clacton and District Hospital, Clacton on Sea.
Katie Mordue, nee Jemmett.
Informant: Frank Jemmett Chandler, Step-Brother.
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Frank Jemmett & Lily Church marriage cert. 1909
Elsie Esther Jemmett birth cert. 1912
Arthur Jemmett birth cert. 1913
Katie Jemmett birth cert. 1915
Katie & Arthur Jemmett, about 1920
Frank Jemmett death cert. 1937 - and news report below:
George Mordue & Katie Jemmett marriage cert. 1940
back: Arthur & Lily;
front: Hazel & Kate, in Downley, about 1950