GARRETT, Ethelinda Beatrice

1892 - 1971

As Ethelinda Beatrice Wilson, she was born at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 9 May 1892. She was the daughter of Ethelinda Bonus (1866-1928), who was the daughter of Kate Foster Wilson. Ethelinda was living in England by 1901, when an 8-year-old of Lavender Cottage, Pewitt Hill, Mill Lane, Felixstowe-cum-Walton, Suffolk, the home of 33-year-old spinster Ethelinda Bonus and they also had living with them, 77-year-old widow Kate Foster Wilson (1824-1912), who was born 'at sea'. In 1911, young Ethelinda was an 18-year-old art student, still at the same address. She married at Walton-cum-Felixstowe in 1916, Horace John Garrett (14 December 1886-1983), a car sales manager. As Mrs B. Garrett, she exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club from 43 Henley Road, Ipswich in 1927, three pictures, a pastel 'Portrait of a Child' and watercolours 'Eve, 1827' and another 'Eve 1927'. In 1939, a shop owner, living at 237 Colchester Road, Ipswich with her husband Horace. Ethelinda Beatrice Garrett died at Felixstowe, Suffolk in 1971, her first name is variously spelt Ethelina, Ethelind or Ethelinda.