Maud (Known As Molly) Forster

1915 - 2011  (96 years)

• Name	Maud (Known As Molly) Forster
  Birth	30 Apr 1915	Etherley, Co. Durham
  	Email on 26 May 2007 from a lady who is Maud's carer giving her date of birth. Ancestry.co.uk has an entry Ref. Volume 10A Page 466 showing her mother's maiden name as Williams. Her death certificate says she was born in Etherley.
  Gender	Female
  Death	29 Nov 2011	Memorial Hospital, Darlington, Co. Durham
  	Death Notice in Northern Echo of 7 December 2011 stating that: "BELL November 29 (peacefully in hospital), of Bishop Auckland. Maud, aged 96 years, devoted wife of the late John. Friends please meet for service and committal at Wear Valley Crematorium, Coundon on Monday December 12 at 11.45 a.m. Will be sadly missed.". Copy of death certificate dated 2 December 2011 received from her solicitor shows her home address as 12 Redworth Grove, Auckland Park, Bishop Auckland. She is described as a retired educational psychologist widow of John Price Bell a retired senior exccutive officer. The death was registered by her neighbour John Lethbridge.. Her date and place of birth are shown as 30 April 1915 at Etherley.
  Cremation	12 Dec 2011	Wear Valley Crematorium, Coundon, Co. Durham
  	Information taken from newspaper death notice.
  Person ID	I392	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	John Percy Forster,   b. 14 Nov 1885, Auckland district, Co. Durham d. Sep QTR 1959, Durham Western district (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Maud Matilda Williams,   b. 21 Jun 1885, Bells Gill, Etherley, Co. Durham d. Mar QTR 1971, Lewes, Sussex (Age 85 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	26 Dec 1910	St Cuthbert's, Etherley, Co. Durham
  	Copy certificate issued 3 November 2006. John, a bachelor, is a plasterer aged 25 residing at Escomb. Mary, a spinster also 25 has no occupation resided at Etherley. Witnesses were Llewellyn Williams and Joseph Forster. John's father John Close Forster is a brakesman and Mary's father David a miner is deceased. On the same day Eleanor Hopwood my 1st cousin 2 x removed married James Acon. I suspect that the marriage took place at the same churchm possible on the same day.
  Family ID	F42	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Price Bell,   b. 14 May 1912, Auckland district, Co. Durham d. Jun 1990, Co. Durham (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	Sep 1937	Huddersfield district
  	Ancestry.co.uk has an entry for Maud marrying a Bell. Ref. Volume 9A Page 1041. Maud's carer informed me that she had married John Price Bell and there is a corresponding entry for a John P Bell with the same reference.
  Family ID	F150	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2025