FREDERICK WALTER ALBERT BOURNE was born on
7th July 1914 in Hastings (All Saints) (source : short birth certificate).
His birth was registered two weeks later on 30th July 1914 (source : short birth certificate
). He operated the West Hill lift in Hastings, as far
back as 1947 (first mention of “the lift” in 1938)
(source : family letters and newspaper article).
He married BARBARA JOYCE BOOTH on 1st August 1942 at All Souls Church, Hastings.
He was a bachelor, age 28, occupation given as munitions worker; she was a spinster, age 23.
Both gave their address as 178 Athelstan Road, Hastings at the time of the wedding
(which was their home for the rest of their lives).
WALTER ALBERT BOURNE (FREDERICK BOURNE’s father) gave his occupation as baker, BARBARA JOYCE
BOOTH gave no father’s name. The witnesses were ALICE KATE ELSIE BURGESS (his cousin, Kate
Louisa Heselden nee Sands’ granddaughter) and Norman David Charles Teich
(his co-lodger from Brighton)
(source : wedding certificate and family letters).
BARBARA JOYCE BOOTH was born on 15th July 1919 in Croydon
(at 42 Kemerton Road – as per birth certificate) .
FREDERICK WALTER ALBERT BOURNE died on 9th April 1979 in Hastings
(source : death certificate).
BARBARA JOYCE BOURNE nee BOOTH died on 26th June 1986 in Hastings
(source : Hastings cemetery).
They were both cremated and their ashes scattered on the grave of their daughter,
MARION LINDA JOAN DELONNETTE nee BOURNE.