Person    | Female  Born 28/1/1885  Died 22/1/1945

Andrew Behan has kindly provided the following research: Amy Ethel Dormor was born as Amy Ethel Greenaway on 28 January 1885 in Winchester, Hampshire. She was the second of the eight children of Thomas Greenaway (1852-1915) and Perdita Pay Greenaway née Forder (1861-1920). Her father had served as a private in the 60th Rifles Regiment and later in life became a Tram Driver. The 1891 census shows that she was living at 12 Felix Street, Lambeth, with her parents and two of her siblings. (Felix Street ran between Westminster Bridge Road and Stangate Street and was renamed Etty Street in 1937, but was later demolished for the expansion of St Thomas' Hospital). The 1901 census shows her as a Confectioner's Shop Assistant living above 140 Waterloo Road, Lambeth, with her parents and five of her siblings.

On 20 September 1908 she married John Dormor (1881-1961) at St Anne's Church, 182 St Ann's Hill, Wandsworth. The parish register showed his address as 303 York Road, Battersea and his occupation as a Shop Assistant, whilst her address was given as 18c Delia Street, Wandsworth. Their son, John Alexander Dormor (1910-1983), was born in 1910 and when he was baptised on 24 July 1910 at St Anne's Church the parish register showed the family were living at 93 Allfarthing Lane, Wandsworth and that his father was a Motor Cab Driver. The 1911 census shows her living at 93a Allfarthing Lane, Wandsworth with her husband and son, whilst the electoral register for 1913 shows her husband at 96 Allfarthing Lane, Wandsworth. Electoral registers from 1920 show the family at 17 Ingelow Road, Battersea and this address is confirmed in the 1939 England and Wales Register which states that her husband was still a Taxi Driver.

The Burial Register of Kingston Council's Kingston Cemetery at Bonner Hill Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 3EZ, shows that at the time of her death she lived at 10 New Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. She was killed by enemy action, aged 59 years, on 22 January 1945 at 2.35pm when the last V2 rocket to fall in Kingston exploded and she was at the time at the rear of 66 Park Road, Kingston upon Thames. She was buried at 1.30pm on 30 January 1945 in the Church of England consecrated section of Kingston Cemetery in Plot C, Grave 6655. She is also commemorated in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour, located just outside the entrance to St George's Chapel at the west end of Westminster Abbey.

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