Gertrude Gazdar 1879- 1954
Gertrude-left- and Maud, maybe ~ 1896?
1879. Gertrude Gazdar born 26/6/1879 ( from 1897 baptism record) Marylebone Sep 1879 to Jamsetji Gazdar & Mary A White
1881C .Gertrude Gazdar is living Rendlesham Lodge, Cheshunt Herts .
| Jamsetji | Gazdar | Head | Married | Male | 37 | 1844 | Barrister At Law (In Actual Practice At The Chancery Bar) | India Parsee Bombay |
| Mary A | Gazdar | Wife | Married | Female | 37 | 1844 | - | St Pancras Middlesex, England |
| Mary | Gazdar | Daughter | Single | Female | 5 | 1876 | - | Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
| James | Gazdar | Son | Single | Male | 3 | 1878 | - | Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
| Gertrude | Gazdar | Daughter | Single | Female | 1 | 1880 | - | Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
| Harriet | Taylor | Servant | Single | Female | 31 | 1850 | Nurse (Domestic) | Swaffham, Norfolk, England |
| Isabel | Taylor | Servant | Single | Female | 16 | 1865 | Generl Servt (Domestic) | Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
| Jane | Kent | Servant | Single | Female | 15 | 1866 | Generl Servt (Domestic) | Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
1891C. Have not found her, then aged 12, nor parents, nor siblings. Back in Bombay?- maybe just for hols? They seemed to have attended school in England, living with a Mrs Mossop: she Jeanette White/Hutchinson/Van Alsine/Mossop .
1897. Gertrude, 18, & sister, Maud, 14,were baptised in St Mary's Kilburn on 11/5/1897- London baptisms Ancestry . No baptism for Mary & James . Mary dies Pwiheli, Sep 1891, aged 15 . Father, James, a barrister, address 136 Belsize Road
1901C .Gertrude Gazder is living 5 Canfield Gardens Hampstead with her sister, Maud, and an intrigueing step sister, Jeanette, who became Mrs Mossop in 1908
| Jeanette | Van Alstine | Head | Widow | Female | 38 | 1863 | Living On Own Means | London, Middlesex, England |
| Gertrude | Gazder | Step Sister | Single | Female | 21 | 1880 | Medical Student | Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
| Maud | Gazder | Step Sister | Single | Female | 18 | 1883 | Student | Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England |
| Ruth | Molton | Servant | Single | Female | 23 | 1878 | General Domestic | Long Melford, Suffolk, England |
| Edith E | Jaquet | Visitor | Married | Female | 42 | 1859 | - | London, Middlesex, England |
| Phyllis | Jaquet | Visitor | Single | Female | 18 | 1883 | - | Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England |
1903. Passed prelims in Biology at London University - Times
1908 Gertrude Gazdar London (R.F.H) School of medicine for Women passed M B , BS - Times
1910. Maud Gazdar passed intermed exam at Institute for Chemistry
1911C. Working in a Hospital in Grays Inn Road, WC1
| Gertrude | |
| Last name | Gazdar |
|---|---|
| Relationship | House Physician |
| Marital status | Single |
| Sex | Female |
| Age | 31 |
| Birth year | 1880 |
| Birth place | St Johns Wood |
| Occupation | Medical Practitione |
Her family at Fox Hall, Upminster, Essex.
| Jamsetji Jivanji | Gazdar | Head | Married | Male | 66 | 1845 | Barrister -On- Law | India Bombay Visitor |
| Maud | Gazdar | Daughter | Single | Female | 28 | 1883 | Demonstrator In Chemistry Unuv: College L Boro | Middlesex Waltham Cross |
| Mary Anne | Hutchinson | Boarder | Widow | Female | 67 | 1844 | Private Means | Middlesex London |
| Nellie Louisa | Taylor | Cook | Single | Female | 17 | 1894 | Cook Domestic | Essex Wakering |
| Ethel Ellen | Flint | Servant | Single | Female | 22 | 1889 | House Maid Domestic | Kent Nortting |
| Edith Mary | Chatfield | Servant | Single | Female | 15 | 1896 | House Maid Domestic | Surrey Croydon |
1914.. Assistant Surgeon Dr Gertrude Gazdar embarked in France on 14/9/1914. Received WW1 Service Medal . Also the British War and Victory Medal ( here cited as Lady Doctor att RAMC) -Ancestry
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The original seven doctors of the Women's Hospital Corps, outside the Hôtel Claridge, with the two principal orderlies. Back row, from left: Olga Campbell, orderly; Majorie Blandy; Grace Judge; Rosalie Jobson; Mardie Hodgson, orderly. Front row, from left: Hazel Cuthbert; Gertrude Gazdar; Louisa Garrett Anderson; Flora Murray. Murray and Anderson are wearing Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) badges; Gertrude Gazdar and Majorie Blandy are also wearing badges, of a different design, but also probably suffrage. |
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| Date: | Sep 1914 - Jan 1915 |
1920. Gertrude & Maud Gazdar on the Electoral roll at Fox Hall, Upminster, her father's house
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1920 Gertrude Gazdar, 41, father James John Gazdar, married widower Harry Forrester, 33, 19/7/1920. in All Souls Church, Hampstead Hampstead Sep 1920 . Her sister Maud a witness. Interestingly no occupation for Gertrude!
1922. Her father died - she, apparently, had been cut out of his will { was thought he disapproved of her marriage}
Gertrude kept bees and had been Medical Office for Enfield- Nigel
1938. She was left £989 in 1938 by her step sister, Jeanette Mossop ( Hutchinson /Van Alstine)
1939 Reg. 30 Brigadier Hill, Enfield
| Gertrude | Forrester | 26 Jun 1879 | Female | Medical Practitioner Assistant School Medical Officer | Married | 234 | 2 | ||
| Harry | Forrester | 21 Nov 1886 | Male | Assistant School Master Elementary | Married | 234 |
1953. She was one of the executors on her sister's, Maud's, death in 1953
1954. Gertrude Forrester likely died, aged 74, Colchester Jun 1954. Gertrude Forrester, of Polstead Farm Bures, died 28/5/1954 at the Essex County Hospital., Colchester. Probate to Harry Forrester, retired school master . £7085
We visited Gertrude's widower in Bures, ( 12 k NW of Colchester) Essex, in a wonderful black-and-white cottage [ lots of pictures on the Web of like cottages!] with undulating floorboards, when I was about 8; I was so strongly gripped by the house that ultimately I have bought one such myself! - NIgel
The devoted Harry took up G's pleasure in ancient buildings, and in the 1950s produced some small books on this theme, dedicated to his late wife.