Doreen Ruth Richardson

04/01/1926 — 02/01/1986
A brief biography

Ancestors


Cynwrig Ab Ithel Fychan 1400 —
Tanglwyst Ab Ithel Fychan —
Harry Wynn Ap Cynwrig 1435 —
Thomas Ap Harry 1470 —
Gwenhwyfar Ferch Dafydd —
Owain Ap Robert Humphrey 1500 — 1559
Morgan Humphrey 1560 — 1620
Morgan Humphrey Jr 1590 — 1667
Evan Humphrey 1620 — 1684
Owen Owain Humphrey 1653 — 1685
Michael Owen 1670 — 1724
John Michael 1693 — 1755
Michael Jones 1726 — 1772
Owen Michael 1754 — 1844
Catherine Margiad Thomas 1750 — 1806
Michael Owen 1784 — 1840
Robert Michael Owen 1822 — 1868
John Morgan Owen 1860 — 1933
Gertrude Louisa Owen 1891 — 1972
Arthur Maurice Richardson 1888 — 1980
Doreen Ruth Richardson 1926 — 1986
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Doreen Ruth Richardson


Daughter of Arthur Maurice Richardson and Gertrude Louisa Owen. .

Born in 1926, the sixteenth year of the reign of King George V, and died aged fifty-nine in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II  She has 5 direct descendants in the family.

Bio


Doreen Ruth Richardson was born on 4 October 1926 in Reigate, Surrey, her father, Arthur, was 38, and her mother, Gertrude, was 35. She married Thurstan Berkeley Brewin on 5 October 1946.


During the war she joined the ATS (Women's Army) and acted as chauffeur to the General Office Commanding (South-West of England).
In 1946 she married a young medical student, Thurstan Brewin. She was a traditional housewife for much of her life, raising 5 children, following her husband as his career moved them from South-East England, to Canada and then to Scotland. In later life she took up painting, and was part-way through an undergraduate degree course at the Glasgow School of Art when she died suddenly of leukaemia, two days before her 60th birthday.



She died on 2 January 1986 at the age of 59.

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