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| *Elizabeth Margaret Heudebourck BALLANCE (F) | Parents/Siblings
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12/10/1915 |
Bombay |
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30/12/1915 |
Bombay |
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5/12/2007 |
Shaftesbury, Dorset |
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14/12/2007 |
Salisbury Crematorium |
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| Always known as Betty, she returned to England from India at the age of 3 with her mother and younger brother John, arriving in London on 21st March 1919. Sh was brought up in a large rented house called Marsham Lodge in Gerrards Cross (now the site of a housing estate) until her mother died in 1932. aged just 51.
Betty then moved with her father and brothers to Lewknor in Oxfordshire and her aunt Margaret (Gilbert's younger sister) came to stay. Margaret made Betty's life very unhappy. She had big rows with Gilbert and Aunt Margaret, although the latter had a flat in London. They were visited there by Uncle Harold and Aunt Myfanwy, who had moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan but came back to England regularly.
Betty went to school at Felixstowe College in Suffolk between the ages of 14 and 18. She then studied at the Royal College of Art in London - inheriting her mother's and grandmother's artistic talents, as well as their love of poetry and flowers.
Her father then moved to Suffolk (Debenham nr. Ipswich) and Betty lived in digs in London until 1936 when she was 21.
She then became a secretary and lived in Moscar Road, Bayswater. After the fall of France she moved to Addison Road with Mrs Hunt, the mother of her best friend Evelyn. Evelyn had a job on the canal boats on Grand Union canal and later married Tom Monnington, who was later to become president of the Royal Academy.
Betty joined WRNS after 1 year and became an officer.
She was posted to Newport where she met her future husband Howard and became engaged after 4 days.
They got married during Howard's 2 weeks leave in August.
She left the WRNS after miscarrying.
They spent some time together in Debenham and London before moving to share a rented house called Rathcote in Crawley with Philip and Eleanor Hunt, Philip being one of Evelyn's brothers and Eleanor became my godmother.
In 1951 the family moved to Chorleywood and lived happily together there until 1980 when Howard retired.
They then moved to Kingsbere in Shaftesbury and spent the next 15 years together, painting and gardening, celebrating their golden wedding in 1994. Widowed the next year, Betty remained in Shaftesbury until she had a stroke in January 2006 confined her to hospital and finally to the Cedars nursing home in Shaftesbury, where she died at the end of the following year. |
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| -John Le Baye BALLANCE (M) | Parents/Siblings
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5/1/1918 |
Bombay |
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7/11/1965 |
Bath |
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| John had Down's syndrome, but he could read. He lived with "Lizzy" who was a maid of "Granny Lloyd" in Hay-on-Wye. The house was owned by Miss Jones, who was also the owner of Marsham Lodge and lived in Bethnal Green (she was known as the "angel of Bethnal Green").
John was living in a home when Lizzy died. He was knocked down by a car in the street and died aged 40 |
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| -Anthony Peter Descarrieres BALLANCE (M) | Parents/Siblings
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24/3/1921 |
Chalfont St Peter, Bucks |
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1990 |
Rutland |
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| During the war, Tony was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army, transferring from the Cheshire Regiment to the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 4th August 1941 and fought in North Africa. In the summer of 1945 he is believed to have been in Ceylon and India.
Tony was by profession a Chartered Accountant.
Tony was fond of horse racing and was also a keen cricketer. In 1950, there is a record of him taking 4 wickets for 32 runs for the Marlborough Blues against the Sherbourne Pilgrims.
In 1955, Tony returned to England with his wife Florence and son John, embarking at Aden. Their home in England was shown as Moor Orchard, Honiton, Devon.
He lived at Cedar Lodge in Saddington with his two sons and housekeeper Susan, to whom, after having been widowed, I believe he became engaged , but they did not marry. |
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