48a Eden Street, Cambridge
History of 48a Eden Street
1930s
Norah May Seager and dog on Fitzroy Street
Norah May Seager at 48a Eden Street
James Seager (b 1899 Dorset) at rear of 48aEden Street
James had served with the Army Service Corps in World War One.
Nora Rosina Seager née Ayres (b 1894; m 1921)
1935
Norah Rosina Ayres
1939
James Seager, b 1899, radio sales manager,
Norah R Seager, b 1895
[Norah May Seager], b 1923 Wales, clerk costing office
Doris Lindsay [cousin]
? , under school age
Ethelreda M Wilson, b 1855, private income [lodger]
Charles S Adams, b 1903, hotel kitchen porter [lodger]
1942
Norah and Michael were engaged 14th April 1942 in Cambridge.. Norah had been born in Pontypool in 1923.
1943
Norah May Seager
Nora May Seager
Michael Stewart Layton-Smith
Michael Stewart Layton-Smith
Michael was born in Coventry in 1922. In 1939 his parents were living at 59 Cottenham Road, Histon. He joined the RAF in October 1941. In 1942 and 1943 he was training in the USA and Canada.
Michael James Layton-Smith born 11 January 1943
1944
26th May Birth of Stuart John and Adrian Barry Layton-Smith at Milton Road Nursery Home
Michael James Layton-Smith and his twin brothers, Stuart John and Adrian Barry
19th August Michael died and was buried at the Bergen General Cemetery in Netherlands. He was serving in 7 Squadron based at Oakington in a Lancaster as air bomber. The plane was shot down By a night fighter into the North Sea west of Ijmuiden during a raid on Sterkrade on the outskirts of Oberhausen.
Ian Layton-Smith has recorded in detail the events of Michael’s life during World War II up until his death. This moving account can be found here:
1962
James Seager
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