Talk:Rosalind Brett (author)

Died in 1961?

Her page on Goodreads has an unsourced claim that she was born in London and died in South Africa in 1961. I looked on Ancestry and there are records for a Lilian Daisy Warren, who died in Cape Town on 24 November 1961. Neither mention her occupation, but both show that she had links to the UK.

Probate (which describes her as a widow, so if this is the right person then Warren is her married name) - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/18248737:1904?tid=&pid=&queryId=4ef2b56e1611c4545f59788641bc7b43&_phsrc=sgs405&_phstart=successSource

Death announcement - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/360523:1897?tid=&pid=&queryId=4ef2b56e1611c4545f59788641bc7b43&_phsrc=sgs405&_phstart=successSource

FindAGrave page for the Lilian Warren who died in 1961, which gives her maiden name as Potter, her birth date as 17 October 1909 and her birth place as Islington, London. It seems her husband died on the same day as she did- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242158672/lilian-daisy-warren.

FreeBMD birth registration for Lilian Daisy Potter in 1909 - https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=123272929:3597&d=bmd_1669206295

FreeBMD marriage registration in 1933 - https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=167806811:2209&d=bmd_1669206295

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/823005/person/112396546261/media/b33bd9a6-3b3e-4ac5-9400-83a425f864b2 says that it was a motor vehicle accident that killed the Warrens.

The above record says she was an housewife. The tree it is attached to has her record from the 1939 Register, which also says that she was an housewife. Both records are outside of the time she was writing, though.

It's possible that this is the right Lilian Warren, but I can't be sure.

Skycloud86 (talk) 00:15, 13 January 2023 (UTC)