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Kathleen Ruby Hacker

Person Chart

Parents

Father Date of Birth Mother Date of Birth
Alfred Benjamin Hacker 1870 Elizabeth Hunt 22/12/1879

Partners

Partner Date of Birth Children
Robert Lawrence Winchcombe 28 March 1916 Judith Winchcombe
Pauline Elizabeth Winchcombe

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 06 September 1915 Swindon
Marriage 07/09/1939 Swindon
Death 20/12/1990 Swindon

Notes

Brought up at 1 Whiteman Street, Swindon

Went to school at Gorse Hill Infant and Junior School, Swindon with all her brothers and sisters, until she was 14.

Worked at the W.D. and H.O. Wills Tobacco factory, stripping tobacco leaves from the stems. Wore overalls. Worked 5.5 days a week alongside her two sisters.

Lived at home until she married. Met her future husband at badminton club.

Married at St Barnabus Church, Swindon (as did Auntie Bid and Uncle Bert, Auntie Else and Uncle Doug, all children of these were baptised and married at St Barnabus too).

When her husband went into the Army she moved from Gloucester back to Swindon and lived with her mother.