Gertrude Barbara Rich daughter of Henry Theodosius Browne Collier of Dork, Captain in the Navy, and Harriet (baptismal record)
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At the time of the 1851 England Census Gertrude B. R. Tennant, aged 30, born in Galway Ireland, and husband Charles Tennant, aged 54, born in Bloomsbury Middlesex, attorney & solicitor, were living at 62 Russell Square, St. George Bloomsbury Middlesex. With them were daughters (born in Bloomsbury) Alice (2) and Blanche (9 mo), and Charles's brother George Tennant (41) of Bloomsbury, unmarried, barrister.
At the time of the 1861 England Census Gertrude B. R. Tennant, aged 41, born in Galway Ireland, and husband Charles Tennant, aged 64, born in Bloomsbury Middlesex, lord of manor, land . . . . . . . , were living at 62 Russell Square, St. George Bloomsbury Middlesex. With them were children (born in St. George Bloomsbury) Alice (12), Charles Coombe (8), Dorothy (6), and Eveleen (4).
In April 1873 Gertrude Barbara Rich Tennant, widow, was the sole executrix of her late husband's Will.
At the time of the 1881 England Census Gertrude B. R. Tennant, aged 61, born in Ireland, widow, was living at 2 Richmond Terrace, St. Margaret's London. With her were children (born in London Middlesex) Charles C. (25), student at law, Alice (30), and Dorothy (23), painter (artist).
At the time of the 1901 England Census Gertrude Tennant, aged 80, born in Galway Ireland, widow, living on [own] means, was at 2 Richmond Terrace, St. Margaret & St. John London. With her were daughters Alice Tennant (50) of Bloomsbury London, single, Dorothy Stanley (42) of Bloomsbury, married, and grandson Denzil M. Stanley (5) of London.
At the time of the 1911 England Census Gertrude Barbara Tennant, aged 91, born in Galway Ireland, widow (mother of 6 children, 2 deceased), was in St. Margaret & St. John London. With her were daughters Alice Tennant (63) of Bloomsbury London, single, no occupation, Eveleen Myers (50) of Bloomsbury, widow, and grandchildren (born in Cambridge) Silvia Myers (24) and Harold Hamilton Myers (22), worker in automobile industry.
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MRS. GERTRUDE BARBARA RICH TENNANT, of Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, S.W., and Cadoxton Lodge, Neath, Glamorgan, who died on April 27th, aged 98, eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Theodosius Brown Collier, R.N., a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, and widow of Mr. Charles Tennant, sometime M.P. for St. Albans, left unsettled property of the value of £78,848 gross, of which £78,169 is net personalty.
The Gentlewoman (London), 5 Oct 1918, p. 51
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Gertrude Barbara Rich Tennant of 2 Richmond-terrace Whitehall Middlesex, widow, died 27 April 1918. Probate London 13 August to Charles Combe Tennant, barrister-at-law, and Percy Jennings, solicitor. Effects £78848 10s. 2d. Resworn £79601 13s. 5d. and £80312 12s. 2d. 4
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