Ada Strutt

My paternal grandmother was Ada Milton, born Strutt.

She was married to Alfred Thomas Milton on 12 June 1920 in Bromley London (presumably Bromley by Bow) and moved to New Zealand when I was born in 1956.

She was born in West Ham on 18th March 1891 23 Greenville[?] Street, Plaistow, West Ham Her father was Alfred Strutt (Dock Labourer), and her mother was Elizabeth Driscoll Strutt, formerly Hopgood.

She is mentioned in the Strutt Family Bible.

According to my Dad. Ada had three sisters and one brother. The sisters were:- Honour, Minnie, Rebecca. Her only brother was Thomas. They all lived beyond ninety yrs, and two of her sisters lived to over 100 years old. [I hope I've inherited some of those genes]. My Dad told me that his Mother told him that her Father, was lost at sea when she was six years old, and her mother kept a shop with her sister (a haberdashery shop, I seem to recall) and brought up her family on her own. An old sea chest belonging to her father is in the possession of cousins in New Zealand.

I have the birth certificate of my grandmother's sister, Honour Rebecca. This says she was born in West Ham in the County of Essex on 21st May 1883 at 11 Berger[?] Street, Plaistow. Otherwise the information is the same as in Ada's certificate.

She died on 19 June 1982 in Auckland, New Zealand.