Ann Stephens?

[Dink]

She died too young. I can't find what caused her death.

Ann Stephens was born on May 21, 1931 in London, England. She was an
actress, known for Man of Evil (1944), In Which We Serve (1942) and
The Upturned Glass (1947). She died on July 15, 1966 in England.

Born: May 21, 1931 In London, England, UK
Movie/TV Credits: 34
First Appeared: In the movie Son of a Stranger
Latest Project: movie Intent to Kill 1958-10-25

She is known for recordings "Teddy Bears Picnic" and "Changing the
Guard at Buckingham Palace" available on Youtube.

I believe she sang "Little April Shower" and a couple of other songs
for the movie "Bambi", though my searching today did not produce that.

--
Dink {Vox clamantis in deserto}

[toci]

She died at a time when suicide was seldom mentioned- but cancer also was still sometimes hush-hush. It is interesting that cause of death is not part of her biographies. Toci

[Pharting Buffalo]

died 15 July 1966

[Janet]

In article <8itbn99lh1av7edc9...@4ax.com>,
no.e...@invalid.domain says...

A UK death certificate gives cause of death and in the UK anyone can
apply to obtain a copy of the full entry, from the official registry of
births and deaths (costs about ￜ10 sterling last time I looked).

However, many actors use a stage name for work so "Ann Stephens" may
not be the name in which her birth and death are registered.

Janet

[Pharting Buffalo]

On Friday, 16 May 2014 17:48:45 UTC+1, Janet wrote:
> In article <8itbn99lh1av7edc9...@4ax.com>,
>
> no.e...@invalid.domain says...
>
> >
>
> > She died too young. I can't find what caused her death.
>
> >
>
> > Ann Stephens was born on May 21, 1931 in London, England. She was an
>
> > actress, known for Man of Evil (1944), In Which We Serve (1942) and
>
> > The Upturned Glass (1947). She died on July 15, 1966 in England.
>
> >
>
> > Born: May 21, 1931 In London, England, UK
>
> > Movie/TV Credits: 34
>
> > First Appeared: In the movie Son of a Stranger
>
> > Latest Project: movie Intent to Kill 1958-10-25
>
> >
>
> > She is known for recordings "Teddy Bears Picnic" and "Changing the
>
> > Guard at Buckingham Palace" available on Youtube.
>
> >
>
> > I believe she sang "Little April Shower" and a couple of other songs
>
> > for the movie "Bambi", though my searching today did not produce that.
>
>
>
> A UK death certificate gives cause of death and in the UK anyone can
>
> apply to obtain a copy of the full entry, from the official registry of
>

> births and deaths (costs about ï¿oe10 sterling last time I looked).

>
>
>
> However, many actors use a stage name for work so "Ann Stephens" may
>
> not be the name in which her birth and death are registered.
>
>
>
> Janet

Birth: May 21, 1931
London
Greater London, England
Death: Jul. 15, 1966, England

English actress. She made a record in 1941 called "Children's Choice" singing "Buckingham Palace", "Dicky Bird Hop", "Teddy Bears Picnic" and "Christopher Robin" which was very much loved. Her film debut was "In Which We Serve" made in 1942. Although she herself was not very well known she was popular in supporting roles during the 1950s.


Burial:
Unknown

Created by: Timothy Purnell
Record added: Oct 23, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 79145565

[Gordon H]

I remember the song "Drip, drip, drip, little April showers" and
Changing the guard, but her name didn't ruing a bell with me.
--
Gordon H

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[Joy]

On 5/16/2014 10:39 AM, Pharting Buffalo wrote:
> On Friday, 16 May 2014 17:48:45 UTC+1, Janet wrote:
>> In article <8itbn99lh1av7edc9...@4ax.com>,
>>
>> no.e...@invalid.domain says...
>>
>>>
>>
>>> She died too young. I can't find what caused her death.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Ann Stephens was born on May 21, 1931 in London, England. She was an
>>
>>> actress, known for Man of Evil (1944), In Which We Serve (1942) and
>>
>>> The Upturned Glass (1947). She died on July 15, 1966 in England.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Born: May 21, 1931 In London, England, UK
>>
>>> Movie/TV Credits: 34
>>
>>> First Appeared: In the movie Son of a Stranger
>>
>>> Latest Project: movie Intent to Kill 1958-10-25
>>
>>>
>>
>>> She is known for recordings "Teddy Bears Picnic" and "Changing the
>>
>>> Guard at Buckingham Palace" available on Youtube.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> I believe she sang "Little April Shower" and a couple of other songs
>>
>>> for the movie "Bambi", though my searching today did not produce that.
>>
>>
>>
>> A UK death certificate gives cause of death and in the UK anyone can
>>
>> apply to obtain a copy of the full entry, from the official registry of
>>

>> births and deaths (costs about �oe10 sterling last time I looked).

>>
>>
>>
>> However, many actors use a stage name for work so "Ann Stephens" may
>>
>> not be the name in which her birth and death are registered.
>>
>>
>>
>> Janet
>
> Birth: May 21, 1931
> London
> Greater London, England
> Death: Jul. 15, 1966, England
>
> English actress. She made a record in 1941 called "Children's Choice" singing "Buckingham Palace", "Dicky Bird Hop", "Teddy Bears Picnic" and "Christopher Robin" which was very much loved. Her film debut was "In Which We Serve" made in 1942. Although she herself was not very well known she was popular in supporting roles during the 1950s.
>
>
> Burial:
> Unknown
>
> Created by: Timothy Purnell
> Record added: Oct 23, 2011
> Find A Grave Memorial# 79145565
>

Burial unknown makes me think it was suicide.

Joy

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[Pharting Buffalo]

On Friday, 16 May 2014 19:31:40 UTC+1, Joy wrote:
> On 5/16/2014 10:39 AM, Pharting Buffalo wrote:
>
> > On Friday, 16 May 2014 17:48:45 UTC+1, Janet wrote:
>
> >> In article <8itbn99lh1av7edc9...@4ax.com>,
>
> >>
>
> >> no.e...@invalid.domain says...
>
> >>
>
> >>>
>
> >>
>
> >>> She died too young. I can't find what caused her death.
>
> >>
>
> >>>
>
> >>
>
> >>> Ann Stephens was born on May 21, 1931 in London, England. She was an
>
> >>
>
> >>> actress, known for Man of Evil (1944), In Which We Serve (1942) and
>
> >>
>
> >>> The Upturned Glass (1947). She died on July 15, 1966 in England.
>
> >>
>
> >>>
>
> >>
>
> >>> Born: May 21, 1931 In London, England, UK
>
> >>
>
> >>> Movie/TV Credits: 34
>
> >>
>
> >>> First Appeared: In the movie Son of a Stranger
>
> >>
>
> >>> Latest Project: movie Intent to Kill 1958-10-25
>
> >>
>
> >>>
>
> >>
>
> >>> She is known for recordings "Teddy Bears Picnic" and "Changing the
>
> >>
>
> >>> Guard at Buckingham Palace" available on Youtube.
>
> >>
>
> >>>
>
> >>
>
> >>> I believe she sang "Little April Shower" and a couple of other songs
>
> >>
>
> >>> for the movie "Bambi", though my searching today did not produce that.
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
> >> A UK death certificate gives cause of death and in the UK anyone can
>
> >>
>
> >> apply to obtain a copy of the full entry, from the official registry of
>
> >>
>

> >> births and deaths (costs about �oe10 sterling last time I looked).

>
> >>
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
> >> However, many actors use a stage name for work so "Ann Stephens" may
>
> >>
>
> >> not be the name in which her birth and death are registered.
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
> >> Janet
>
> >
>
> > Birth: May 21, 1931
>
> > London
>
> > Greater London, England
>
> > Death: Jul. 15, 1966, England
>
> >
>
> > English actress. She made a record in 1941 called "Children's Choice" singing "Buckingham Palace", "Dicky Bird Hop", "Teddy Bears Picnic" and "Christopher Robin" which was very much loved. Her film debut was "In Which We Serve" made in 1942. Although she herself was not very well known she was popular in supporting roles during the 1950s.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Burial:
>
> > Unknown
>
> >
>
> > Created by: Timothy Purnell
>
> > Record added: Oct 23, 2011
>
> > Find A Grave Memorial# 79145565
>
> >
>
>
>
> Burial unknown makes me think it was suicide.
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
> --
>
> Joy Unlimited
>
> Colorful Crocheted Critters
>
> Photos at http://www.PictureTrail.com/joy9

Why would that make you think suicide perhaps Ann was cremated. They are talking about a new rule in England where the buried person only get 80 years in a grave

[Janet]

In article <iQsdv.56133$i%1.2...@fx23.fr7>, toa...@real-me.net says...

> > Burial:
> > Unknown
> >
> > Created by: Timothy Purnell
> > Record added: Oct 23, 2011
> > Find A Grave Memorial# 79145565
> >
>
> Burial unknown makes me think it was suicide.
>
> Joy

You're jumping to a baseless conclusion.

Her disposal is only unknown to the website quoted above; but that's
hardly surprising because modern death registry offices and death
certificates don't record whatever is done with the dead body. In
Britain it's quite usual and normal to have no burial grave, or be
buried in an unmarked grave with no memorial gravestone. Cremation, and
the private, scattering of ashes is also commonplace and was even when
she died.

Janet.

[Joy]

Maybe, but the combination of the unknown burial with the unlisted cause
of death makes one wonder.

[Judith in France]

X-No-Archive:Yes
For my family, their grave is in perpetuity as my family bought the land in the churchyard where generations are buried. Nobody can be buried there no matter how long.

[Pharting Buffalo]

Ireland?

[Gordon H]

The only burial funeral I have attended for as long as I can remember
was my sister's funeral back in November.

My daughter and I found it a thoroughly unpleasant event, and I am glad
that my family know that my wish is to be cremated.

It is becoming a real problem now, respecting/revering cemeteries, and I
think they should be re-cycled after say, 100 years. There just isn't
room on earth for everyone to be buried, unless they start burying us
standing up! :-)

I chose where to scatter my wife's ashes, near a war memorial on a local
hill, where we used to walk with the dog. I go there often, and
reflect...

As for visiting cemeteries? Urrrgh!

[Pharting Buffalo]

80 years is the current proposal in England for recycling graves.

Ben Jonson asked Charles I to be granted 18 square inches of land anywhere in England. The King offered more, but Jonson refused. King Charles granted the wish, Jonson asked for an 18 square inch plot in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, where he was eventually buried, standing up, with the inscription above his head, "O rare Ben Jonson!"

In 1849, when another grave was dug nearby, the wall of Jonson's grave collapsed into the new one. The superintendent in charge of the work detail said that he saw the two leg-bones of Jonson in the sand,

[Janet]

In article <y8vdv.34646$n36....@fx29.fr7>, toa...@real-me.net says...

There is a compulsory, national system of registering every death that
occurs in the UK. A death must be registered within a certain time and
the body can't be disposed of until the death has been officially
registered. The death register includes the cause of death.

To register a death one has to supply to the govt registry office, a
medical certificate from a DR or a coroner court showing when, where and
why the person died, and, formal records identifying that person and
linking them to other national public records of their life; including,
their birth certificate and any marriage certificate (and, if they
worked in the UK, the National Insurance number every working person
must have). Those records provide the name in which the death will be
registered.

It's very common for actors etc to use a stage name (at work) but in
their private, family and financial affairs, for privacy they use their
birth or married name."Ann Stephens", may be a stage name; or it might
be the maiden name of a married actress whose death was registered in
her married name.

Anyone can either, look up the death registry online (but the online
version is abbreviated and shows only name/date/place; not cause of
death) OR pay to obtain a printed copy of the full registration of the
death (which shows additional information such as who registered the
death, and the cause of death). To look up either either, you need the
name in which the death was registered . The fact someone can't find an
Ann Stephens entry for her date of death just means her death was not
registered in the name Ann Stephens.

Janet

[Pharting Buffalo]

The law reads a little differently see Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953.You can dispose of the dead before registration

[Gordon H]

If I had been married to Ann Stephens I might not have been able to
become a member of a 'singles' club which is one of my dance venues.
To validate my application I had to produce my wife's death certificate,
or a Council Tax bill showing the 25% discount for solo residence.
It keeps predatory married men (and women!) out, and couples who meet
there and subsequently marry are only allowed to attend together.

[Janet]

In article <ef407925-e19d-4f8f...@googlegroups.com>,
phartin...@gmail.com says...

> 80 years is the current proposal in England for recycling graves.
>

It's been going on quietly for years. You only have to look around
crowded old graveyards where the headstones record 8 or 9 family members
in the same lair, to know it was never dug 20 feet deep, so the earliest
occupants must have made way for the later ones.

My grandmother died in 1958. By that time the very old rural churchyard
( where her mother is buried, with headstone) was long since full and no
longer being used for burials. They had expanded into a small,
unconnected meadow a hundred yards away. It was already half full when
Granny was buried there in '58 with no headstone. All subsequent family
deaths have been cremated.

I went back to that village in around 1976, the new graveyard was now
full and there was a new-ish headstone on Granny's grave showing a
stranger had obviously been buried in it, less than 20 years after her.
My mother's best friend still lived next door to the graveyard and told
me that due to lack of space, re-use of such recent unmarked graves had
been going on for a while, and she regularly saw parts of human
skeletons unearthed when the grave diggers were at work.

Anybody who thinks their family burial lair is forever must not have
seen many of those deconsecrated old churches turned into a domestic
des-res( I've yet to see one with its original graveyard full of
gravestones)


Janet

[Janet]

In article <8bd99bf4-bf76-4290...@googlegroups.com>,
phartin...@gmail.com says...

> The law reads a little differently see Births and Deaths Registration
Act 1953.

Here's the legislation

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/enacted

>You can dispose of the dead before registration

Kindly point out the section which says that.

Janet
>

[Joy]

A year or so ago I attended a burial service for the son of someone I
know. As you say, it was unpleasant. Our family is all for cremation,
and I am glad too. I am so glad the trend has gone from funerals to
memorial services.

[Janet]

In article <BVMdv.48253$w65....@fx28.fr7>, toa...@real-me.net says...

> A year or so ago I attended a burial service for the son of someone I
> know. As you say, it was unpleasant. Our family is all for cremation,
> and I am glad too. I am so glad the trend has gone from funerals to
> memorial services.

The last funeral service I attended was held in the home of the dead
person conducted by the Minister who just spoke about him and his life
and said a short prayer... no prayers or singing by those present. It
was lovely. The coffin waited outside in the funeral director's hearse.
Then we all followed the hearse to a not-church graveyard overlooking
the sea and he was very simply placed in it; no more words spoken; then
we all went to the pub which had done a good lunch for us.
Another friend had a similar funeral service (same Minister) held in
her garden (beautiful summer day) then to a churchyard then pub.

Janet.

[Gordon H]

There have been houses for many years where the small cemetery used to
be in South Reddish village when I was a youngster, and that must have
been much less than 80 years, because it all happened in my lifetime.

[hopeinch...@gmail.com]

I read in one article that she was a natural daughter of a king Oscar whatever that means. Maybe this is why we cannot find out cause of death.

[mcdonald...@gmail.com]

She was born Ann G Stephens in 1931 to Lucian Stephens and Kathleen Blake. She had a younger sister Helen who also was a child actor. Her father was mentioned in a Tatler biography as Lt-Cdr Lucien Stephens (sic).