EVELYN VIOLET PLUMB

Born: 1924, York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Died: 25th November 1947; age: 23; Died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, at 5, Gippeswyk Road, Ipswich.

Residence: 5, Gippeswyk Road, Ipswich.

Employed: as a Grocer’s Clerk.

 

Rank: Leading Aircraftwoman; Service Number: 452666.

Regiment: Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.

 

Grave Reference:

C.31.77.

Ipswich Old Cemetery,

Ipswich.

 

Relatives Notified & Address: Daughter of Leonard & Eva Susanna Plumb, of Ipswich.

 

Father: Leonard Plumb, born June 1880, Halstead, Essex. A Moulder – Compressor Manufacturers. Immigrated to Canada in 1904 and 1911.

Mother: Eva Susanna Plumb (nee Bilke), born March 1890, Aldershot, Surrey. Later a Barnardo’s girl sent to Canada in June 1901.

 

Evelyn was 11 years old, when she and her family sailed from Montreal & Quebec on the ‘Ascania’ of the Cunard White Star Limited, arriving at the Port of London on the 20th September 1936. The Plumb family proposed to live at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

Leonard Plumb, 55, a Moulder.

Eva Plumb, 46, a Housewife.

Lily Plumb, 17, a Stenographer.

May Plumb, 14.

Jean Plumb, 9.

Bert Plumb, 5.

 

ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939.

Evelyn was living with her parents & siblings at their family home – 5, Gippeswyk Road,

Ipswich.

Leonard, an Iron Moulder.

Eva, unpaid Domestic Duties.

Jean.

Bert.

 

Probate to Eva Susanna Plumb – mother.