14 Dec 2004 Wife: Olive Isobel RUSS current name: Olive Elizabeth died at age: 73 Born: 29 Aug 1906 1 Died: 16 May 1980 Resided: 1924 - 1926 at 146 Kenilworth Court, Lower Richmond Road, Putney 2 Confirmation: 1927 3 Resided: 1926 at 54 Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale 4 Resided: 1929 [?] with Bertha and Frank Welch 5 Education: 1921 Edgehill College, Devon 6 Occupation: 1927 Secretary 7 Father: Charles RUSS Mother: Jessie Naylor GODDARD Husband: Reginald COLE Married: 14 Mar 1929 her age: 22 8 Died: 1985 Occupation: Electronics Engineer Standard Telephones & Cables Father: Mother: M Child 1: John Alexander COLE age: 73 Born: 12 May 1931 Occupation: 1957 - 1959 Nigeria as contract geophysicist Spouse: Ann ROBINSON Spouse: Marri ELSHOLZ F Child 2: Daphne Olive COLE age: 71 Born: 1933 Spouse: Roy GRAIFF Sources: (1) DK, 'Olive followed in 1906', 20. (2) NT, 58. (3) DK, 'In preparing for the wedding, Olive decided to be baptized and confirmed in the Church of England At the same time she anglicized to Elizabeth her middle name, Isobel - the name her brothers had found great mirth in teasing her about. Her decision to change her name incensed Charles. He refused to attend the wedding.', 41. (4) NT, 73. (5) NT, ..in the summer of 1929 ...for some time Olive, now twenty-three, had found life increasingly intolerable at home. ... Eventually Olive had become unable to continue suffering such indignities and privations and departed to live with her kindly Uncle Frank Welch and Aunt Bertha at their new home, a handsome country house set in five acres of grounds outside Pinner. 106. (6) NT, ..while the sisters Olive, Connie and Nora went to Edgehill College, a Methodist girls' boarding-school some fifteeen miles from Shebbear. 28. (7) DK, 'She joined Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd in its Aldwych office and became the personal secetary of Sir Thomas Spencer, managing director.', 41. (8) DK, 'At Standard, she soon met and became engaged to Reginald Cole, an electronics engineer with a physics degree from Cambridge. When Olive took 'Reg', as he was called, to meet Charles and Zoe, her father heartily congratulated the couple on their impending nuptials but absolved himself from paying by quickly adding 'Oh, well, no doubt Frank Welch will organize the wedding'', DK [p20 US]: 'The boys had their own way of needling Olive, whose middle name was Isobel. 'Hello, Is-a-bell on a bicyle' they greeted her, never failing to get her goat.' Comment - MJH: we always shouted 'Is a bell necessary on a bicycle', 41. Name Index