Evitt, Frances, nee Revett

Notes on Mrs Frances Evitt (nee Revett)

See interview tape 119

Born  1904

Parents Father from Maldon, parents kept pub. He was Prudential agent.

Siblings. Brother was cabinet maker in Maldon Road, Witham. Sister Daisy Revett, born 1900.

Residences:
Lived in Guithavon Road as a child.
The Avenue when married, for about 30 years
Then Four Acres, Maldon Road, near Lound for 11 or 12 years
Then to 32 Blacksmiths Lane, Wickham Bishops; there in 1987.
Later she probably went to Whitehall Court.

School: National School, Guithavon Street, then Braintree High School.

Work: Taught at Takeley for 2½ years after school, then at Church School in Witham, then married. Then did supply teaching etc for four years or so after married. Took in paying guests after children were born. In later life played piano part time at Templars School.

Married: 1929. Bill Evitt, born 1903. Family living at the Lodge, Hatfield Peverl, in First World War, and at Christmas House, 98 Newland Street, when she met him. Worked on Stock Exchange.

Father in law Philip Evitt, born Rook Hall, Goldhanger was family home.

Children: Elizabeth born 1933, John born 1936.

Extracts from documents

1901 census
RG 13/1725, f.5, p.1, schedule 4, Bridge Street
Philip B Revett    Head    M    32    Life Insurance Agent (worker)    born Essex, Maldon
Florence L Revett    Wife    M    33        born Essex, Heybridge
Daisy A Revett    Dau        10 mo        born Essex, Witham

1920 electoral register
Guithavon Road: Phillip Benjamin Revett, Florence Louisa Revett

1930 electoral register
Lomah, The Avenue, Percy Clifford Evitt, Frances Edith Evitt.
12 Guithavon Road, Philip Benjamin Revett, Florence Louisa Revett.

1938 electoral register
36 The Avenue: Percy Clifford Evitt, Frances Edith Evitt.
12 Guithavon Road, Philip Benjamin Revett, Florence Louisa Revett, Philip Aldrich Revett.

1947 electoral register
36 The Avenue: Percy C Evitt, Frances E Evitt.
12 Guithavon Rad: Philip A Revett, Florence L Revett, Gladys I Revett.
The Lound, Maldon Road: Henry L Evitt, Lily Youngs, Alice Evitt.

1961 electoral register
36 The Avenue: Percy C Evitt, Frances E Evitt, Henry J Evitt.
Lound, Maldon Road: Henry L Evitt, Lily Youngs.

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