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Just to follow-up on this. Bernard's sister, Rosella Mary Kopp, died at Margate on 25 October 1954, and names Bernard as an executor (and Joseph Ernest Kopp). Her will might reveal Bernard's address. If it names him at Clevedon then that at least lowers the date range that they could be at Yatton.

Richard

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These records crop up more and more often on Ancestry searches these days and it is a good idea (to avoid spending even more money) to paste the links of the records into a spreadsheet or similar and then when these free access days crop up - which they do from time to time - access the records for free  and copy them.

Thank you Richard, I have passed that message on and they are grateful for your help and can remember visiting them in Yatton in the 1950s.

Hi Pat,

Kathleen Gladys Kopp (née Caple) was living at Woodfield Cottage, No. 2, Copse Road, Clevedon, from 1939 to (at least) 1945. As you are likely aware, this comes from the 1939 Census and this newspaper report: Mystery of Bath Woman's Death.

In that report, Kathleen states she has a second home in London (where she spends most of the time): From the London electoral registers this appears to be 14 Grange Hill, Edgware. She and her husband (Bernard Stephen Kopp) do not appear at that address after 1950. So this does leave open that they could be at Yatton from 1950 to 1958 (her death at 47 Old Church Road, Clevedon). I was going to suggest the telephone directories but they never seem to appear in any of them (you would have thought it would be essential for Bernard's job!).

How sure are they that she lived at Yatton from the 1950s?

Regards,
Richard