Person    | Female  Born 15/2/1895  Died 12/5/1971

Petronella Cordelia Paton Walsh

Categories: Politics & Administration

Countries: Netherlands

Petronella Cordelia Paton Walsh

Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee: 1950-1.

1964 the Conservative Miss P. C. Paton Walsh was elected onto the newly formed Westminster City Council

Source: Wikipedia.

Petronella Cordelia Paton Walsh was born on 15 February 1895 in Amsterdam, Holland (now Netherlands), the daughter of George Paton Walsh (b.circa 1860) and Anna Paton Walsh (1872-1950). 

In the 1921 census she is shown as aged 26 years 4 months, single, employed on 'home duties' and that although born in Amsterdam she was British by the parentage of her father. She was staying on the night of the census at Gordon Hotel, Westminster, London, with her parents and her sister, Agnes Connell Paton Walsh (1896-1962). Her father who had been born in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland was described as a retired engineer, whilst her mother who was Dutch and her sister who had also been born in Amsterdam, were both listed as on 'home duties'.

Electoral registers from 1929 to 1952 show her listed at 6 Ashley Gardens, London, SW1 and when the 1939 England and Wales Register was complied she was shown living there on 'unpaid domestic duties' and a member of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS - now Royal Voluntary Service) with her widowed mother, who also a member of the WVS, and her sister, together with two female domestic servants.

Electoral registers until 1952 continued to list her at 6 Ashley Gardens, but from 1956 to 1963 she and her sister were listed at 31 Morpeth Mansions, Morpeth Terrace, London, SW1. The registers from 1965 to 1970 show her residing at 118 Ashley Gardens, London, SW1.

Her death, aged 76 years, was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1971 in the Westminster Registration District, Greater London. Probate records confirm that her address had been 118 Ashley Gardens, London and that she died on 12 May 1971. Probate was granted on 10 September 1971 and her effects totalled £37,226.

She is shown as 'Councillor Miss Paton Walsh' on the Churchill Gardens memorial plaque at Chaucer House, Churchill Gardens Road, London, SW1.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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