Died
9 May 1941
Born
22 April 1917
Sources
Ancestry
CWGC
Cumbria BMD
Place
Themes
Betty Knight
Blitz Victim
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
BETTY
BELOVED WIFE OF
ERIC KNIGHT
DIED 9TH MAY 1941 AGED 24
1939 Register
The 1939 Register has the following living at 36 Newby Terrace, Barrow: John J. Wilson (DoB 17 July 1878), Gauge Store Keeper; Jessie A. Wilson (DoB 10? November 1883, Unpaid Domestic Duties; Betty Wilson (DoB 22 April 1917), Cinema Cashier [Wilson crossed out, replaced by Knight]; next record redacted; Peter Hool (DoB 1 April 1929), At school.
The CWGC record simply has KNIGHT Betty of 36 Newby Terrace. Wife of Eric Cowell Knight. Injured at Barrow-in-Furness. Died at North Lonsdale Hospital. Many of the other CWGC records have a place of death – an address, or a shelter. Was Betty in a street? Was she at work? The Gaiety Cinema suffered damage on 15th April; as did the Coliseum and the Ritz – all on Abbey Road, but this is the wrong date for Betty’s death.
Betty and Eric had got married at St. Matthew, Barrow in the second quarter of 1940. How had they met?
The 1939 Register for Devizes, Wiltshire, has Eric C. Knight (DoB 15 October 1910) living at 11 Deramore Row. He was a Cinema Operator. Is this the connection?
Eric Cowell Knight, born 15 October 1910, died in Barrow-in-Furness in the first quarter of 1983. He had re-married, to Martha Cunningham, in Barrow in 1966.
