Talk:Vera Carstairs

birth
Name: 	Vera D L Hunt Registration Date: 	Jun. Q. 1925 Registration District: 	Cheltenham Mother's Maiden Name: 	Hurst Volume Number: 	6a Page Number: 	652
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Note, checking for Hunt ♂ <-> Hurst ♀ marriages 1914 to 1925
 * George H 1923 Brentford
 * Henry 1917 Leigh
 * John 1914 Islington

1939 Register
Searching for "Vera Hunt" in the 1939 Register doesn't really show anything of particular interest. Nothing for Q2 1925, and nothing evident for Gloucestershire for births two years either side of 1925. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:52, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

passenger
Name: 	Vera D. L. Carstairs Nationality: 	British, passport #DU19459 Arrival Age: 	34 Birth Date: 	3 Feb 1925  (may be 2 Mar 1925) Birth Place: 	Cheltenham England Arrival Date: 	18 Oct 1959 Arrival Place: 	New York, New York, USA Destination: 	New York Airline: 	BOAC Flight Number: 	507
 * Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests. The National Archives at Washington, D.C.

Name: 	Vera Doris Lilian Carstairs, Economist Gender: 	Female Age: 	25 Birth Date: 	abt 1925 Departure Date: 	15 Dec 1950 Port of Departure: 	Southampton, England Destination Port: 	Bombay, India Ship Name: 	Corfu Shipping Line: 	P and O Official Number: 	162643 Master: 	E F Ferraby
 * Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Outwards Passenger Lists. BT27

w/ George Morrison, 34, physician, of 22 Braid Cres., Edinburgh both show England as the last plae of permanent residence.

Marriage
Name: 	Vera D L Hunt Registration Date: 	Dec. Q. 1950 Registration District: 	Cambridge Spouse: 	George M Carstairs Volume Number: 	4a Page Number: 	351
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electoral
Name: 	Vera D.L Carstairs Residence Year: 	1965 Street Address: 	Merchiston Avenue 18 Residence Place: 	Edinburgh, Scotland
 * Edinburgh City Archives; Edinburgh, Scotland; Register of Voters for the City of Edinburgh and the Burgh of Leith; Reference: SL56/158

George M. Carstairs (tick)

Name: 	Vera D Carstairs Birth Date: 	1924-1926 Residence Date: 	2004, 2007-2008, 2009 Address: 	5, Eildonbank, Eildon, TD6 9HH Residence Place: 	Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
 * 2000s — UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2017.

Name: 	Vera D Carstairs Electoral Date: 	1959 Street Address: 	4409 Ruskin Park House, Champion Hill Ward or Division/Constituency: 	Dulwich County or Borough: 	Southwark, England
 * London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

w/ 4408 George M. Carstairs

the immediate stuff, and definitely looks to be living in Scotland later in life. No guarantee that she has passed away. I would be checking modern papers for obituaries and death notices. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:16, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Many thanks - Cheltenham is a good lead. Education at Cheltenham Ladies College could be a possibility.


 * Morris Carstairs had a brother Charles Young Carstairs, in Who's Who as a civil servant; and he married Frances Mary Coode at Stroud in 1939 which is really not far from Cheltenham. So we at least have some chance that Morris and Vera met socially, in or around WWII.


 * You are right to say we can't assume Vera Carstairs isn't still with us. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:34, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Not finding her in the 1939 register is a good indicator of some sort of living. I am not fully aware of how they differentiated between living and dead, and then redacted the living. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:41, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Early life
Based on information from the family: Vera was educated at the Manning School for Girls, Aspley, Nottingham (now Nottingham Girls' Academy). She then did war work for the Meteorological Office. Her degree course was probably by post-war entrance (examination), so she may well have attended the University of London in the period 1945 to 1948. None of this sourced to anything published, so far.

I found a newspaper reference to a Miss Vera Hunt in a social services connection in Nottingham in 1949: can't be sure this is the right person. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:35, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Death
I have learned from a family member that Vera Carstairs died on 14 December. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC)