Doris Emily Liddard 1901–1984 – Whos Your Daddy? Wikigenealogy

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Doris Emily Liddard, 1901–1984 (aged 83 years)

Name

Doris Emily Liddard

Name: Doris Emily /Liddard/
Given names: Doris Emily
Surname: Liddard
Married name: Doris Emily /Townsend/

Sex Female

Date differences

Family with Ethni Harding Townsend
husband	Links Birth: 10 January 1903 33 29 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Marriage: December 1925 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: June 1971 — Reading, Berkshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Doris Emily Liddard Denis P Townsend Douglas G Townsend Mary Phyllis Blodwen Townsend Raymond J Townsend Gwyneth Joyce Townsend Josephine M Townsend Delbert William George Townsend Ethni Harding Townsend 1903–1971 Birth: 10 January 1903 33 29 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: June 1971 — Reading, Berkshire, England
herself	Links Birth: 17 October 1901 — Thatcham, Berkshire, England Marriage: December 1925 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: December 1984 — Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Ethni Harding Townsend Denis P Townsend Douglas G Townsend Mary Phyllis Blodwen Townsend Raymond J Townsend Gwyneth Joyce Townsend Josephine M Townsend Delbert William George Townsend Doris Emily Liddard 1901–1984 Birth: 17 October 1901 — Thatcham, Berkshire, England Death: December 1984 — Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Marriage	Marriage — December 1925 — Newbury, Berkshire, England
6 months son	Links Birth: 18 May 1926 23 24 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Marriage: September 1953 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 24 November 2010 — Andover, Hampshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Jennifer Mary Rogers Denis P Townsend 1926–2010 Birth: 18 May 1926 23 24 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 24 November 2010 — Andover, Hampshire, England
17 months son	Links Birth: September 1927 24 25 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: September 1927 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Douglas G Townsend 1927–1927 Birth: September 1927 24 25 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: September 1927 — Newbury, Berkshire, England
19 months daughter	Links Birth: March 1929 26 27 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: December 1947 — Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse George William Bellinger Mary Phyllis Blodwen Townsend 1929–1947 Birth: March 1929 26 27 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: December 1947 — Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
2 years son	Links Birth: June 1931 28 29 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 4 February 2008 — Reading, Berkshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Ruth A Manning Raymond J Townsend 1931–2008 Birth: June 1931 28 29 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 4 February 2008 — Reading, Berkshire, England
3 years daughter	Links Birth: March 1934 31 32 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Marriage: September 1951 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 1 September 2014 — Reading, Berkshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Gerald Charles Watts Gwyneth Joyce Townsend 1934–2014 Birth: March 1934 31 32 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 1 September 2014 — Reading, Berkshire, England
2 years daughter	Links Birth: June 1936 33 34 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Josephine M Townsend 1936–… Birth: June 1936 33 34 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death:
18 months son	Links Birth: 14 November 1937 34 36 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 21 May 2015 — Thatcham, Berkshire, England Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Christine Mary Gray Delbert William George Townsend 1937–2015 Birth: 14 November 1937 34 36 — Newbury, Berkshire, England Death: 21 May 2015 — Thatcham, Berkshire, England

Events of close relatives
Birth	17 October 1901 Thatcham, Berkshire, England
Marriage	Ethni Harding Townsend — View this family December 1925 (aged 24 years) Newbury, Berkshire, England
Birth of a son	Denis P Townsend 18 May 1926 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Birth of a son	Douglas G Townsend September 1927 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Death of a son	Douglas G Townsend September 1927 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Birth of a daughter	Mary Phyllis Blodwen Townsend March 1929 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Birth of a son	Raymond J Townsend June 1931 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Birth of a daughter	Gwyneth Joyce Townsend March 1934 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Birth of a daughter	Josephine M Townsend June 1936 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Birth of a son	Delbert William George Townsend 14 November 1937 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Death of a daughter	Mary Phyllis Blodwen Townsend December 1947 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Marriage of a daughter	Gerald Charles Watts — Gwyneth Joyce Townsend — View this family September 1951 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Marriage of a son	Denis P Townsend — Jennifer Mary Rogers — View this family September 1953 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Death of a husband	Ethni Harding Townsend June 1971 Reading, Berkshire, England
Death	December 1984 (aged 83 years) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Last change	27 July 2023 – 20:00:26 Author of last change: 7mikefh

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Note	Doris Emily Liddiard Townsend 1902 - 1984 When I was a small child, before I started school, my mother worked so I went to my nanny's house every day. Sixty years ago now but I can still picture her house as though it was yesterday. Nanny had a three bedroomed house in which she lived with my grandad, who had been a coal miner and had pneumoconosis and for this reason slept in the front room; the three of her adult children who were still at home and her father, my great grandfather, a miserable old bugger who hated me. Monday was washing day, there were no washing machines then or even running hot water. My uncles would fill the washing boiler and set a fire under it before going to work and by the time I arrived nanny would be well into the weeks washing. The whites would be done first while the water was clean and then the colourds and last of all the works overalls. After they came out of the boiler the clothes would be rinsed in cold water by hand, and then put through the mangle, a job with which I was allowed to help if I had been good. BY mid day the washing lines were full and we would go indoors and have some cold meat with bubble and squeak made from Sunday leftovers for lunch. After lunch we would wash up and I would sit on nanny lap and listen to Listen With Mother on the radio. Then nanny would settle me down with grandad on his bed for a nap while she did the ironing with her two flat irons which she heated on the kitchen range. It must have been such a very hard life for her but she never complained and always had time to give me cuddles. Cara Townsend

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Doris Emily Liddiard Townsend 1902 - 1984

When I was a small child, before I started school, my mother worked so I went to my nanny's house every day. Sixty years ago now but I can still picture her house as though it was yesterday.

Nanny had a three bedroomed house in which she lived with my grandad, who had been a coal miner and had pneumoconosis and for this reason slept in the front room; the three of her adult children who were still at home and her father, my great grandfather, a miserable old bugger who hated me.

Monday was washing day, there were no washing machines then or even running hot water. My uncles would fill the washing boiler and set a fire under it before going to work and by the time I arrived nanny would be well into the weeks washing. The whites would be done first while the water was clean and then the colourds and last of all the works overalls. After they came out of the boiler the clothes would be rinsed in cold water by hand, and then put through the mangle, a job with which I was allowed to help if I had been good. BY mid day the washing lines were full and we would go indoors and have some cold meat with bubble and squeak made from Sunday leftovers for lunch.

After lunch we would wash up and I would sit on nanny lap and listen to Listen With Mother on the radio. Then nanny would settle me down with grandad on his bed for a nap while she did the ironing with her two flat irons which she heated on the kitchen range.

It must have been such a very hard life for her but she never complained and always had time to give me cuddles.

Cara Townsend

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