Elsie Florence Heard 1889-1950

ELSIE FLORENCE GASPAR, nee HEARD
My paternal Grandmother suffered a crippling stroke just before I was born and she died when I was aged two. Sadly, I have zero memory of her. She inherited from mother-in-law Queenie a fine sapphire ring, which later passed to my Mother ‘Mollie’ and through her to my present wife Michelle. My Mother was particularly admiring of EFG’s warm, sociable and loving personality – ‘She could turn any event into a party’

1891C Elsie F Heard was living Crescent Road, Plumstead with her parents and younger brother

John	Heard	Head	Married	Male	30	1861	Engine Fitter	Cornwall, England
Mary E	Heard	Wife	Married	Female	28	1863	-	Cornwall, England
Elise F	Heard	Daughter	-	Female	2	1889	-	Essex, England
John F	Heard	Son	-	Male	0	1891	-	Essex, England

1898. Started in July at Bloomfield Road School Greenwich, born February 1889, address 60 Genesta Road, had been at Lee Street Junior mixed- Ancestry

1901C.Elsie F Heard, 12, was living 60 Genesta Road, Plumstead with her parents and 2 younger siblings

John	Heard	Head	Married	Male	40	1861	Gauge Maker Fitter	Wadebridge, Cornwall, England
Mary E	Heard	Wife	Married	Female	38	1863	-	Wadebridge, Cornwall, England
Elsie F	Heard	Daughter	-	Female	12	1889	-	Plaistow, Essex, England
John F L	Heard	Son	-	Male	10	1891	-	Plaistow, Essex, England
Gladys E	Heard	Daughter	-	Female	4	1897	-	Plumstead, Kent, England

1911C. Elsie Florence Heard, 22, shorthand typist, was living 60 Genesta Road, Plumstead in 7 rooms with her parents, had been married 24 years: 4 children, 1 deadm and younger sister

John	Heard	Head	Married	Male	50	1861	Gange Worker Fitter - Royal Arsenal	Cornwall St Brcock
Mary Elizabeth	Heard	Wife	Married	Female	48	1863	-	Cornwall St Brcock
Elsie Florence	Heard	Daughter	Single	Female	22	1889	Shorthand Typist	London West Ham
Gladys Emily	Heard	Daughter	-	Female	14	1897	School	London Woolwich

1912. Elsie F Heard, 23, married Gregory H W Gaspar, 34, engineer in Plumstead parish church, Grenwich Woolwich Jun 1912

His address 66 Clyde Road, West Didsbury, Manchester: hers 60 Genesta Road, Plumstead. His father Nicholas Malcolm Gasper, advocate, deceased: hers John Heard, engineer. His mother likely a witness, along with her father, J. Heard, and his elder married sister, Ripsima Bennison

?, Dwight Gasper, Elsie, Gregory Hugh, Ripsima?, Hosannah, John Heard, Mary Heard?, Gladys? John F L Heard?

Ripsima Bennison, widowed in 1911, likely the lady to the right of Gregory . Another her brother John F L Heard & the other his brother Dwight, identified by Nigel

1914. Malcolm Frederick William Gaspar was born to Gregory & Elsie on 18/4/1914 Woolwich Jun 1914. Baptised in Plumstead , address 60 Genesta Road: so living with her parents

maybe?: ? , John Heard 1861, Elsie, Malcolm, John F L Heard 1891, ?Gladys Heard? , ?Mary E Heard 1863- taken ~1916?

1912-1918. She moved up to Prestwich, where her husband lived and worked - maybe immediatly , juys returning to Plumstead for the birth of her first child and occasionally after that

Thought he was their only child from BMD, BUT, seems to be another, Hugh S J Gasper born in December 1918 : shown as G*par in Prestwich Mar 1919 on BMD . He baptised Hugh Stanley John Gasper on 24/4/1919 at St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich, father engineer- Lancashire online parish clerk

1939. Elsie F Gasper was living at Waveney, Prestwich Park Road, Prestwich

1950. Elsie F Gasper, of 16 Circular Road, Prestwich, ( semi detached, freehold, 3 beds, 2 baths, 3 Receps),

died, aged 61, on 24/12/1950, leaving £1994. Executors her husband and elder son, Malcolm Heywood Dec 1950

Gregory M W	Gasper	12 Aug 1877	Male	Electric Mechanic & Consulting Engineer	Married	93	1
	Elsie F	Gasper	12 Jan 1889	Female	Unpaid Domestic Duties	Married	93	2
	Malcolm F W	Gasper	18 Apr 1914	Male	Electric Engineer	Single	93	3
	Hugh S J	Gasper	10 Dec 1918	Male	Apprentice Aircraft Engine?	Single	93	4
	John	Heard	30 Sep 1860	Male	Mechanical Engineer Retired	Widowed	93	5