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Florence Norris was born in Beverley 3 Oct 1882. Her parents were Henry and Eliza Anne Norris. Henry born in Toronto, Canada, was a shoemaker and leather beater in Beverley. They lived at 40 Flemingate in1891. Florence had an older sister Annie, two younger brothers, Herbert and Ernest and two younger sisters Ethel and Lilly. By 1901 they had moved to Bogle Lane in Beverley. Florence was eighteen years old by this time and was a printer and compositor. She now had another sister, Mabel and a brother George. Florence married Fred Balderson, 21 Dec 1903 at St Nicholas Church, Beverley. Fred was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire in 1877. He was employed as a shipwright. They had a daughter, Florence Evelyn born on 14 Nov 1907 in Beverley. The Baldersons moved to Devonport and by 1911 lived at Keyham.
In 1917 Florence volunteered at the War Hospital in Devonport for the Red Cross Society. She was a member of staff in the Splint Room. She volunteered until 1919 and was awarded the Devonport badges for 72 and 150 attendances. She was also awarded the Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild workers badge. The Guild which relied on volunteers, produced garments for those in need and for the troops home and abroad.
Florence had a son, Wilfred in Jun 1920, but he died in Jun 1921. Her husband, Fred, died in Mar 1929 in Totnes aged fifty one years. In 1933 her daughter married Edgar Pease in Plympton, Devon.
Florence remarried in Jun 1934 to Frederick Buckingham in St Germans, Cornwall. By 1939 they lived at Vallertort House, St Germans, Cornwall.
Florence died on 26 Jan 1966 in Plymouth aged eighty three years.
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