See also
Susan Isaac, 1971, age 27
Name:
Susan Isaac
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
1943, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Suan Isaac
1987, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Susan Kennard
1987, Newspaper Notice for Death of Susan Kennard
Register (living with parents):
29 Sep 1939 (age -4)
1939 Register - Living with parents
Birth:
21 Jul 1943
the Alexandra Nursing Home1
Address: Pentillie Castle, Pillaton, St Germans, Cornwall
During WW II Alexandra Nursing Home which was in Plymouth was evacuated to Pentillie Castle. Susan was proud of the fact that she was born in a castle!
Birth Registration:
24 Jul 1943 (age 0)
the Register Office1
Address: for the sub district of Callington
Bridesmaid:
22 Dec 1956 (age 13)
Bridesmaid at Wedding of Donald Robert Boyce Boyle and Patricia Hélène Wallace
Education:
frm 1962 to 1965 (age 18-22)
Address: Rolle Street, Exmouth, Devon.
The details of her primary and secondary education are not known. However, to obtain a place in a teacher training college in the early 1960s she would have need a minimum of 5 O levels or equivalent. It was a three year course. Part of her teacher training was in Birmingham which she disliked. After qualifying she obtained a post at East Quay Primary School in Barnstable.
Teacher training colleges no longer exist. After the Robbins Committee Report on higher education they became Colleges of Education which have now been absorbed into universities.
Occupation:
frm 1967 to 1985 (age 23-42)
Reception Class teacher; East Quay Primary School4
Address: Bideford, Devon
She secured the post on completion of her teacher training. She loved it and continued to teach the Reception Class until the end of her working life.
East Quay primary School no longer exists at least not under that name. It is now thought to have been be called East-the-Water Primary School.
attended:
11 Apr 1985 (age 41)
Attended funeral of Gladys May Luscombe
Death:
14 Dec 1987 (age 44)
Cause: breast cancer which had metastasised
Address: 16 Goodwood Park
In 1985(?) Susan was diagnosed with breast cancer and was treated at Exeter Hospital. Her father paid for her and her cousin Pat to stay at the Bristol Cancer Centre which provided complimentary therapy for a week. Pat got the impression that her husband George was in denial over her illness and almost up to the last moment expected her to recover. Pat nursed Susan for the last 6 week of her life and although her Death Certificate says that her husband George was with her when she died it was actually Pat.
Death Registration:
16 Dec 1987
Register Office7
Address: the Bideford district
Funeral:
18 Dec 1987
Address: Northam, Devon
The church was packed because as the reception class teacher at the local primary school she was well known and respected by the local community. Those attending the service included her husband George, her father-in-law George Isaac, her cousin Pat Carpenter who had nursed her through the final stages of her illness, and her children Ian and Bobby although they were not present at the iinterrment which took place immediately after the service in the churchyard.
The newspaper notice of the funeral requested only family flowers but donations if desired to Cancer Research c/o National Westminster Bank, Northam.
Family of George Alfred Kennard and Susan Isaac, 1971
Spouse: George Alfred Kennard, 1971, age 32
1771, Susan Isaac and George Kennard's Wedding 2nd Photo
Spouse:
Children:
Marriage:
10 Apr 1971 (age 27)
Address: Northam, Devon
The service was taken by the Vicar and the witnesses were the bride's parents George and Gladys Isaac, Leonard Field who was the groom's half sister's husband and M.E. Rickard. The relationship of the last witness to the couple is not known. Kevin the groom's nephew was his best man. Alan Tricker was Groomsman. Lyn and Susan Hodge were bridesmaids. Pat (wife of Leonard Field), Kevin and Carol Field (the groom's half-sister and brother-in-law), Trevor and Jan Field (Trevor was also the groom's nephew), Penny Andrews, John (Laird?), Joan and Frank Squires, Patsy (the bride's cousin and her husband Don, Dorrie and Harry Andrews, Rita and Frank Hodge, Marjorie and Len Rickard, Jean Tricker (wife of the Groomsman), Lucy and Ron Crisp, Jeannetta and Bill M’Kintosh were also guests.
It is not known where the reception was held or where the couple honeymooned. Susan and George met through an introduction agency and as far as is known they had a happy marriage.
John M. Tamblyn, , Certified Copy for an Entry of Birth for Susan Isaac, (Original Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth issue on 24 July 1943). Custom Id: DC 316987; Cit. Date: 24 July 1943. Robert Kennard. Call Number: Personal papers.
Pat Ward as recorded by Jack Ward, Memoir on Susan Isaac and George Kennard, (Private papers). 2nd paragraph. Cit. Date: 4 July 2014. Wallace-Boyle Database.
Jenny Keating, December 2010, Teacher Training up to the 1960s, Institute of Historical Research, Paragraps headed 1950s and 1960s.
Jack Ward , Reminiscent of Pat Ward, Subject: George & Susan Isaac, Recorder: Jack Ward, (Updated in June 2014). Wallace-Boyle Database.
Patricia M Maxwell, Registrar, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Susan Kennard, (Original certificate issued at time of registration). Custom Id: IX 967706; Cit. Date: 14 December 1987. Robert Kennard.
Jack Ward , Reminiscent of Pat Ward, Subject: George & Susan Isaac, Recorder: Jack Ward, (Updated in June 2014). Cit. Date: June 2014. Wallace-Boyle Database.
Patricia M Maxwell, Registrar, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Susan Kennard, (Original certificate issued at time of registration). Custom Id: IX 967706; Date registered. Cit. Date: 16 December 1987. Robert Kennard.
George Kennard widower of Susan Kennard, Western Gazette Death Notice for Susan Kennard, (Publication Date, 18 Dec 1987). Deaths. Cit. Date: 18 December 1987. Pat Ward.
Jack Ward , Reminiscent of Pat Ward, Subject: George & Susan Isaac, Recorder: Jack Ward, (Updated in June 2014). Cit. Date: December 1987. Wallace-Boyle Database.
The incumbent of St Margaret's Church, Northam, Devon, Certified Copy for an Entry of Marriage for George Alfred Kennard and Susan Isaac, (Original Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage dated 10 Apr 1971). Cit. Date: 10 April 1971. Robert Kennard.
Robert Kennard, e-mail from Robert Kennard to Jack Ward containing Guest List for Wedding of George Alfred Kennard and Susam Isaac, (Private papers). Paragraph listing guests. Cit. Date: 7 November 2013. Dowell-Wallace Data Base.