Audrey Hinchliffe

1926 - 2019  (93 years)

• Name	Audrey Hinchliffe
  Born	12 Apr 1926	1 Banks Buildings, West Herrington, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham.
  Gender	Female
  Died	16 Jul 2019	Bristol England United Kingdom
  Person ID	I40	Hinchliffe Family Tree
  Last Modified	18 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	John Robert Hinchliffe,   b. 5 Dec 1902, 193 Stone Street,Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland ,   d. 4 Dec 1975, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire  (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Margaret Eva Oliver,   b. 12 Aug 1908, 8 Stanley Terrace, Shiney Row, Durham ,   d. 3 Jul 1931, 5 Winters Terrace,Old Penshaw, Houghton le Spring, Durham  (Age 22 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	3 Aug 1925	Parish Church, Herrington, Houghton le Spring, Durham
  Family ID	F23	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jack Albert Bristow,   b. 1927,   d. 1992  (Age 65 years)
  Children	1. Susan Elizabeth Mary Bristow   2. Mr Robert John Albert Bristow   3. Mr Malcolm Bristow   4. CHRISTOPHER BRISTOW,   b. 1 Sep 1954,   d. 1 Oct 1954  (Age 0 years)   5. PAMELA JEAN BRISTOW
  Photos		Jack Albert Bristow and Audrey Hinchliffe Jack and Audrey on their wedding day at Bristol Register Office, Bristol, England on the 23rd April 1947
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2019
  Family ID	F34	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Audrey Bristow nee Hinchliffe Photo taken at 98 Barrowmead Drive, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, England.
  		Audrey Hinchliffe Peggy's 1st Cousin, sadly who she never knew. Audrey C1946
  		Jack Albert Bristow and Audrey Hinchliffe Jack and Audrey on their wedding day at Bristol Register Office, Bristol, England on the 23rd April 1947

  
  

• Notes

  notes AUDREY SPENCER APRIL 12th 1926 – JULY 16th 2019. AUDREY SPENCER was born in NEW HERRINGTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, COUNTY DURHAM on 12th April 1926, the daughter of JOHN ROBERT and MARGARET EVA HINCHLIFFE Her sister SUSANNAH was born 2 years and one day later on the 13th April 1928. Audrey and Susannah’s mum MARGARET EVA sadly passed away when her daughters were still very young children and the girls were raised by their maternal Grandfather RICHARD THOMAS OLIVER. Their Grandfather looked after Audrey and Susannah until he was taken ill and was left with no other choice than to place his beloved Grandaughters into a childrens home. Audrey’s memories of MEDOMSLEY EDGE COTTAGE HOMES where she and Susannah lived for a number of years were never sad ones. Audrey always said they (the children) were treated firmly but fairly. When Audrey reached 14 years of age she had to leave the childrens home and was placed into ‘service.’ Audrey’s first place of service was with a family in Bishop Aukland, Durham. Audrey wasn’t happy being in service but she stuck with it because she said she had to wait for ‘my Sister Sue.’ Audrey went on to join the ATS in 1946 where she met her future husband JACK BRISTOW. Audrey and Jack married in Bristol in April 1947 and lived in Shirehampton until they got their own home, a brand new house in Lawrence Weston. Audrey and Jack had 5 children, SUSAN, ROBERT, MALCOLM, CHRISTOPHER and PAMELA. Christopher was Malcolm’s twin but he tragically passed away when he was just a few weeks old. Audrey was a stay at home wife as most ladies of her generation were. But on one occasion she did have a part time job working the evening shift with other ladies at the Peek Frean biscuit factory in Avonmouth where on occasions and if possible she would sneak out the odd Bourbon biscuit as a treat for one or other of her children. Audrey was very house proud and would spend many hours keeping her home spotlessly clean. She also used to knit and sew and made the majority of the clothes for Jack and their children. Audrey and Jack divorced in 1967 and Audrey went on to have one more child GEOFFREY with her new partner RON. Audrey, Ron and Geoff lived in Bushey, Hertfordshire for a number of years before eventually relocating to Bristol. After Ron passed away Audrey got itchy feet and decided it was time to start seeing a bit of the world. She didn’t want to fly so she went on foreign holidays by coach thoroughly enjoying herself visiting many places in Europe and on these holidays making a number of new friends. Audrey always tried to learn a few words in the language of whatever country she was visiting but one particular time her new language skills very funnily let her down. She was in a restaurant in an Eastern European city and asked for what she believed was a cheese sandwich. She said the waiter gave her some very strange looks but none the less took her order and went off to place it for her. When her cheese sandwich arrived it wasn’t what you would exactly call a cheese sandwich. Audrey had ordered a whole loaf of bread and a large block of cheese !!! Audrey loved classical music and went to see many of the great opera singers including of course Luciano Pavarotti. Audrey led a very busy life and worked until she was nearly 80 years of age. She used to clean for who in her words she called ‘my poor old ladies.’ Those ladies were in fact all younger than Audrey. Any spare time Audrey had once her house was spick and span would be used decorating or gardening. She also enjoyed doing crosswords and flicking through the TV channels and quite often would end up watching something that was in a foreign language even though she had no idea of what was being said. Geoff moved back home to live with his mum and his son BEN also lived with them. Audrey adored Ben and helped Geoff to raise him. She also of course loved all her other Grandchildren, HELEN, CHRISTOPHER, DARREN, LUCIE, SERENA, ANDREW and DAVID. There are a number of Great Grandchildren and also some Great, Great Grandchildren. Audrey would quite often talk about her childhood and would mention the names of cousins that she could remember from her childhood so when her Daughter Sue got her first computer and went online she started to search ‘up North’ as Audrey would say for her Mum’s family. As luck would have it Sue found those cousins and in 2001 Sue and her partner TREVOR took Audrey up to Durham on the pretence of Audrey showing them around where she grew up. 2 days later Audrey received a big surprise as she met cousins BILLY, SHEILA and JUNE and had tea with them. Sue had also contacted the Sunderland Echo newspaper and they sent a reporter and photographer to the meeting so that Audrey could tell them her story and have it published in the hope that more family would be found. Sadly no other family in Durham came forward. As time went on a half sister JILL who lives in Essex with her husband DEREK and son ROBERT were also found. Audrey met Jill, Derek and Robert on numerous occasions as she did with her cousins in Durham. Then surprisingly, another cousin MARION who lives in Australia was found. When MARION and her husband RON came to the UK on holiday in 2010 Audrey was taken to meet Marion and Ron. They all spent a really lovely day together. Audrey was so happy that she had finally found ‘family.’ It was no longer in her words ‘just me and my Sister.’ Around 9 years ago Audrey was very sadly diagnosed with Vascular Dementia and 7 years ago she went to live at DEERHURST CARE HOME in SOUNDWELL. Because of the wonderful care compassion and love Audrey received from everyone employed at Deerhurst including GRACE, MILA, NONG, DEAN and of course the Manager, LESLEY she became one of Deerhurst’s longest surviving residents.