03 Leicester/Thomas/John/Thomas/Thomas/Ethel/Ethel
Ethel May Green  daughter of James and Ethel

Born - 14 August 1907 14 Blackfriars Street, Leicester. Baptised 9 October 1912 All Saints, Leicester
Wed - 23 December 1939 Leicester Register Office
Died - 19 April 1955 Hillcrest, 2 Swain Street, Leicester.
Cremation Gilroes cemetery, Leicester
1907 - 14 Blackfriars Street, Leicester. Ethel's birth was registered by her mother Ethel on 11 September 1907. The registrar was G.F.Smith. Ethel's birthplace, 14 Blackfriars Street, Leicester, has long been demolished, and is now a factory in an industrial area, overlooking the arches of the also long-gone Great Central Railway. (see photograph)
1939 - 26 and a half Asylum St  Leicester (above a fish shop). Hosiery ironer. Ethel used to buy other people's ration books to help feed her own children and make extra money.

Ethel died of cancer of the cervix. Ethel's death was remembered in The Leicester Mercury on 20 April 1955 (page 12)

"Frearson
Our beloved daughter, May
on April 19,
after suffering so patiently borne.
God knows best 
Goodbye love.
Dad, Annie and Brothers & Sisters".

Photo of Ethel May

Socks A link to an interesting oral history recording