Ethel
Clara Ivall was a great granddaughter of David Ivall (1795-1850), a highly
successful coach maker. His youngest child was Albert Ivall (1839-97), who
married Maria Streeter in 1861. Their eldest son was Albert Ivall junior
(1862-1905), the father of Ethel.
In
1891, Albert Ivall junior married Clara Amelia Stock in Poplar, East London.
They had six children, namely Mabel Edith (1892-1963), Ethel Clara (1893-1959),
Albert Clifford and David William (twins born in 1896 who both died in 1897),
Harold Victor (1900-1985) and Albert Edward (1902-1987). Ethel was born in
Paddington on December 12th 1893 and baptised on January 28th
1894 at St Mary’s Church, Paddington Green.
The
1901 census shows Albert Ivall (aged 39, a grocery and provision dealer), his
wife Clara (33) and children Mabel (8), Ethel (7) and Harold (4 months) plus a
domestic servant living at 10 White Post Lane, a grocery shop in Hackney Wick.
The building no longer exists.
Albert
Ivall (Ethel’s father) died in 1905 aged 43 of “phthisis” (another name for
tuberculosis), when Ethel was aged 11. His will left his entire estate (£608
net) to his wife, Clara.
I
can’t find Ethel in the 1911 census. She wasn’t with her mother Clara, who
appears as an apartment house keeper living at 29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on
Sea, Sussex with her daughter Mabel (a sewing machinist).
Nursing
Registers on Ancestry show that Ethel studied for a nursing certificate at Hull
Royal Infirmary between 1918 (when she was 24) and 1922. She became a
registered nurse on June 15th 1923 in London. The registers give her
address as 56 Noel St, Nottingham between 1926 and 1934 and 242 Perry Road,
Sherwood, Nottingham between 1937 and 1946.
Electoral
Registers record that Ethel was living with her mother Clara and brother Albert
in 1930 and 1931, at 56 Noel Road, Nottingham.
The
1939 Register lists Ethel, a trained nurse, single, at 242 Perry Road,
Nottingham with her mother Clara (who died in 1947). Ethel was a matron at Sherwood Hospital. One of
her nieces remembers her as a very pleasant person.
Ethel in 1955
Ethel
died in 1959 aged 65 of leukaemia in Nottingham. She was cremated and is commemorated on her
mother’s gravestone in the Northern Cemetery, Bulwell, Nottingham. The
inscription reads
“In
loving memory of CLARA AMELIA IVALL who died April 25th 1947 aged 79
years.
Also
of ALBERT IVALL husband of above who died March 3rd 1905 aged 43
years. At rest. Interred at Manor Park Cemetery, Essex.
Also
their beloved daughter ETHEL CLARA died Jan 29th 1959. Cremated.”
Probate
records say
IVALL
Ethel Clara of 242 Perry Rd, Sherwood, Nottingham, spinster, died 29 January
1959 at The General Hospital, Nottingham. Probate Nottingham 11 May to Harold
Victor Ivall turner and Albert Edward Ivall fitter. Effects £3,852 17s 9d.
