16 Dec 2004                   

               Wife: Sarah Elizabeth JONES     age: 92 
               Born: 1912                 in Pen-y-Cae North Wales  1,2
         Occupation: c 1920               London as domestic servant and seamstress  3
            Resided: Feb 1936             at 2a Oakley Street, Chelsea  4
            Resided: 1940 - 1942          in 28 Thorpe Avenue, Thorpe-next-Norwich  5
            Resided: Spring 1942          in 237 King's Road, London  6
         Occupation: 1942                 electrical factory in Earls Court and then in haberdashers in King's Road  6
              Event: 20 Mar 1944          petitioned for divorce  7
              Event: 18 Dec 1944          decree nisi  8
             Father:
             Mother:
Other spouse 1


            Husband: John Cowper le Mee POWER     
            Married: May 1949               9
             Father:
             Mother:


Sources:
(1) DK, 'Elizabeth was an orphan from the village of Penycae Rhosllanerchrugog in 
north-east Wales.  her mother had been killed, probably by influenza, in 1914, 
when Elizabeth was just three.  Her father - a clay miner - died four years 
later', 64. 
(2) NT, Elizabeth Jones was an attractive twenty-four-year-old, who was born in 
the little village of Pen-y-Cae near the mining town of Rhossslanerchrugog in 
north-east Wales, where her father worked as a collier.  Tragically she had lost 
both her parents in early childhood, and found herself an orphan at the age of 
seven.  Her education had been rudimentary, and Welsh was her first language. 
153. 
(3) NT, 153. 
(4) NT, At the time of their marriage the young couple were registered as living 
together in a basement flat at 2a Oakley Street, at the corner of King's Road. 
(5) NT, some time after Patrick left home in 1940 his brother Godfrey and his 
wife Connie, who were devout Christians, provided a home for his wife Elizabeth 
and their two small children at their home outside Norwich. 
(6) NT, 260. 
(7) NT, On 20 March 1944 she [Elizabeth] submitted a petition for the dissolution 
of her marriage.  It was not contested by Patrick, and in due course a decree 
nisi was issued by the High Court on 18 December. 284. 
(8) NT, On 18 December a decree nisi was granted to Elizabeth Russ The judge 
awarded her custody of Richard, allowing Patrick drastically reduced access to 
his son: 'Three to four days during the Christmas holidays, Two days during the 
Easter holidays, and one day at school during each school term all such access 
to be during the daytime only.', 293. 
(9) DK, 'In May [1949?] Elizabeth Russ had married a widower named John Cowper le 
Mee-Power, an army veteran, a company executive, and the son of the director of 
a Ceylonese tea and rubber estate', 136. 

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