Talk:Vera Carstairs

birth

• FreeBMD

Name: Vera D L Hunt
Registration Date: Jun. Q. 1925
Registration District: Cheltenham
Mother's Maiden Name: Hurst
Volume Number: 6a
Page Number: 652

Note, checking for Hunt ♂ <-> Hurst ♀ marriages 1914 to 1925

• George H 1923 Brentford
• Henry 1917 Leigh
• John 1914 Islington

1939 Register

Searching for "Vera Hunt" in the 1939 Register doesn't really show anything of particular interest. Nothing for Q2 1925, and nothing evident for Gloucestershire for births two years either side of 1925. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:52, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

passenger

• Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests. The National Archives at Washington, D.C.

Name: Vera D. L. Carstairs
Nationality: British, passport #DU19459
Arrival Age: 34
Birth Date: 3 Feb 1925 (may be 2 Mar 1925)
Birth Place: Cheltenham England
Arrival Date: 18 Oct 1959
Arrival Place: New York, New York, USA
Destination: New York
Airline: BOAC
Flight Number: 507

• Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Outwards Passenger Lists. BT27

Name: Vera Doris Lilian Carstairs, Economist
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Birth Date: abt 1925
Departure Date: 15 Dec 1950
Port of Departure: Southampton, England
Destination Port: Bombay, India
Ship Name: Corfu
Shipping Line: P and O
Official Number: 162643
Master: E F Ferraby

w/ George Morrison, 34, physician, of 22 Braid Cres., Edinburgh

both show England as the last plae of permanent residence.

Marriage

• FreeBMD

Name: Vera D L Hunt
Registration Date: Dec. Q. 1950
Registration District: Cambridge
Spouse: George M Carstairs
Volume Number: 4a
Page Number: 351

electoral

• Edinburgh City Archives; Edinburgh, Scotland; Register of Voters for the City of Edinburgh and the Burgh of Leith; Reference: SL56/158

Name: Vera D.L Carstairs
Residence Year: 1965
Street Address: Merchiston Avenue 18
Residence Place: Edinburgh, Scotland

George M. Carstairs (tick)

• 2000s — UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2017.

Name: Vera D Carstairs
Birth Date: 1924-1926
Residence Date: 2004, 2007-2008, 2009
Address: 5, Eildonbank, Eildon, TD6 9HH
Residence Place: Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland

• London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

Name: Vera D Carstairs
Electoral Date: 1959
Street Address: 4409 Ruskin Park House, Champion Hill
Ward or Division/Constituency: Dulwich
County or Borough: Southwark, England

w/ 4408 George M. Carstairs

@Charles Matthews: the immediate stuff, and definitely looks to be living in Scotland later in life. No guarantee that she has passed away. I would be checking modern papers for obituaries and death notices. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:16, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Many thanks - Cheltenham is a good lead. Education at Cheltenham Ladies College could be a possibility.

Morris Carstairs had a brother Charles Young Carstairs, in Who's Who as a civil servant; and he married Frances Mary Coode at Stroud in 1939[1] which is really not far from Cheltenham. So we at least have some chance that Morris and Vera met socially, in or around WWII.

You are right to say we can't assume Vera Carstairs isn't still with us. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:34, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Not finding her in the 1939 register is a good indicator of some sort of living. I am not fully aware of how they differentiated between living and dead, and then redacted the living. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:41, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Early life

Based on information from the family: Vera was educated at the Manning School for Girls, Aspley, Nottingham (now Nottingham Girls' Academy). She then did war work for the Meteorological Office. Her degree course was probably by post-war entrance (examination), so she may well have attended the University of London in the period 1945 to 1948. None of this sourced to anything published, so far.

I found a newspaper reference to a Miss Vera Hunt in a social services connection in Nottingham in 1949: can't be sure this is the right person. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:35, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Death

I have learned from a family member that Vera Carstairs died on 14 December. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC)