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Helen Batchelor TAYLOR

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TAYLOR Mrs Helen Margaret Batchelor, Voluntary Aid Detachment, attached 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, She died from dysentery 15th November 1915 aged 42 at Floriana Hospital, Malta. The daughter of Henry Hilton and Jane, nee Brabazon of Felmersham, Bedfordshire.

At rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta Plot 1 Row 25 Grave 1.

Wills and Admin, Ancestry - TAYLOR, Helen, otherwise Helen Margaret Batchelor Taylor wife of William Benjamin Batchelor Taylor who died 15th November 1915 at the Floriana Hospital, Malta. Probate London 18th January to Harold Charlton Boycott, solicitor and Kathleen Oore Smith wife of Harold Nelson Smith. She was born in 1874 at Felmersham and in 1891 was living with her parents Henry and Jane Hilton and her siblings at The Grange, Felmersham, Bedfordshire. 1901 she was visiting Mrs Roberta Pick at East Lodge, Cardingon Road, Bedford Town. In 1911 she was living with her husband William Benjamin Batchelor Taylor, Physician and Surgeon, at Holly Lodge, The Vine, Sevenoaks, Kent. She filed for a divorce on the 14th July 1914 for restitution of conjugal rights on the grounds that her husband left the martial home and refused to return home. A letter was sent to by the petitioner requesting his to return, but he refused. They had been married on the 7th January 1902 at St Mary's Church, Felmersham, Bedfordshire. The case was heard at the Royal Courts of Justice at the Strand, Middlesex on the 14th July 1915. Decree was granted that day. Final Decree was issued on the 29th July 1915 on the ground of his desertion and his adultery with a Mrs Cooper. Mr Joseph Edwards Cooper field for divorce from his wife Ruth Leslie Cooper on the grounds of adultery with Dr Taylor. On the 19th April 1915 Mrs Cooper left her husband and set up home with Doctor William Taylor at the Great Western Hotel, Paddington.


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