ARDRON Genealogy

1928 Equal Franchise Act - All women are given the same voting rights as men (all over the age of 21)
1928 on 30 September Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 on 24 October the Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression

1931 Financial crisis and run on the pound (Britain abandons the gold standard)

1935 in July the first Penguin paperbacks go on sale, costing just 6 pence, bringing literature to the masses

1936 Death of King George V, succeeded by King Edward VIII
1936 Abdication of King Edward VIII in order to marry Wallace Simpson, succeeded by King George VI

On the 1939 Register Joseph T. was living at Station Road, Southwell, Nottinghamshire:
a) Arthur H Osbourne, 12 October 1879, married, postman
b) Florence Osbourne, 10 November 1881, married, unpaid domestic duties
c) Joseph T. Ardron, 11 June 1916, single, railway clerk
d) Herbert O. Overton, 13 November 1917, single, railway porter and shunter
e) Antony G. Moore, 4 September 1920, single, laboratory assistant oil boiling
f) Elizabeth H. [Wilkinson – cross out] Conway, 4 May 1919, single, shorthand typist
(PRO ref RG 101/6273B)

1939-45 World War II
1944 Butler Education Act - framework for new free comprehensive secondary education for all

He married Molly Gwendoline Gibbens or Taylor in 1946. (GRO ref Southampton 6b 1562 Sep 1946 – Gibbens or Taylor)

1947 on 1 January Britain's coal industry is nationalised

1948 National Health Service established

1948 on 29 July the Olympic Games open at Wembley Stadium in London

1952 Death of King George VI, succeeded by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 Rationing resulting from ends

1955 on 22 September commercial television starts with the first ITV broadcast

1956 on 17 October Britain switches on its first nuclear power station at Calder Hall

1959 M1 Motorway punched through the Midlands from Watford to Birmingham

1963 The Profumo Affair
1965 on 8 November the death penalty is abolished

1966 on 30 July England win the football World Cup

1967 Abortion and homosexuality are legalised

1969 on 2 March Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight

1971 on 15 February decimalised currency replaces 'pounds, shillings and pence'

1973 on 1 January Britain joins the European Economic Community

1978 Wide spread strikes result in the so called “Winter of Discontent”
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female Prime Minister

1984 on 12 March the 12-month 'Miners' Strike' over pit closures begins

1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web

1992 on 6 May the Channel Tunnel opens, linking London and Paris by rail

2001 on 11 September Islamic terrorists crash aircraft on targets in New York and Washington

2005 on 7 July suicide bombers kill 52 people on London's transport system

2005 in December Civil partnerships give same-sex couples legal rights

Joseph died on 2 August 2009 aged 93. He was living in Southampton, Hampshire. (Ancestry.com)

Molly Gwendoline TAYLOR (1920 - 1998)
She was born on 22 December 1920. (Dob on death index)

Molly first married Walter H. Gibbens in 1939, before marrying Joseph. (GRO ref Southampton 2c 341 Sep 1939 – Gibbens)

Molly died on 28 September 1998 aged 77. (Dob on probate index + GRO Southampton Sep 1998 reg no E19A district no 5001E entry no 88 – [born] 22DE1920)

Probate of her estate was granted on 5 November 1998: “ARDRON, MOLLY GWENDOLINE [date of probate] 05 November 1998 [probate number] 9852431447 [date of death] 28 September 1998 [probate type] Grant and will [probate location] Winchester” (Wills & Admons, 1998)

JOSEPH AND MOLLY HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN:

1) Celia J. Ardron (1958 - )
My 5th cousin 1 times removed was born in 1958. (GRO ref Surrey N.E. 5g 515 Sep 1958 - Taylor)

Celia married Jose F. Almeida in 1981. (GRO ref Southampton 20 901 Dec 1981 – Almeida)

Jose F. ALMEIDA (-)
BIRTH??

Notes:
No probate – Joseph T. (2009)