Helen Pye

Helen Phoebe Pye 

Born: 4 July 1882, Chesteron  

Father: William T Pye (b. 1845)

Mother: Elizabeth Pye (b. 1847)

Brothers: Henry Thomas Pye (b. 1874), Frederick William Pye (b. 1877)

Sisters: Lizzie Alice Pye (b. 1867), Blanche Jane Pye (b. 1868), Edith Rose Pye (b. 1885)

Marriage:        1909, Hertfordshire 

Husband:         Arthur Sydney Langley 

                        b. 22 April 1881

                        Schoolmaster 

                        d. 1964

Issue – 

#1 Edmund Clement Langley (b. 10 October 1910)

In 1891 – 

She is at Victoria Road, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire. Her father and brother, Henry, are listed as ‘Scientific Instrument Maker’. Helen, her mother and siblings (Blanche, Frederick and Edith) are unlisted. Her sister, Lizzie, is listed as ‘Schoolmistress’. 

In 1901 – 

She is at 40 Milton Road, Chesterton. Her father is listed as ‘Scientific Instrument Maker’. Her mother is unlisted. Helen and her sister, Edith, are listed as ‘School Teacher’. 

In 10/01 – 

PT at Chesterton Church.

In 10/03 – 

Appointed to London Board. £80.

In 10/05 – 

Address is 74 Florence Road, Stroud Green, London, N.

In 1911 – 

She is at 31 Francis Road, Stechford, Yardley, Worcestershire. Her husband is listed as ‘Schoolmaster Grammar School’. Helen and her son, Edmund, are unlisted. 

In 1921 – 

She is at 6 Grange Road, Cambridge. The head of the household, William George Pye (b. 1869), is listed as ‘Scientific Instrument Maker’. Helen and William’s wife, Annie Eliza Pye (b. 1868), are unlisted. William’s son, Donald Walter Pye (b. 1898), is listed as ‘Oxford Undergraduate’. William’s son, Harold John Pye (b. 1901), is listed as ‘Cambridge Undergraduate’. There are two servants, Hannah Elizabeth Deane (b. 1892) and Beatrice Alice Lilian Beetenson (b. 1897).

In 1939 –

She is at 119 Welwyndale Road, Birmingham. Her son, Edward, is listed as ‘Production Planning Engineer Tyre Industry’. Her daughter in law, Hilda L (b. 1913), is unlisted. Helen is unlisted.  

d.         11 June 1953, Hastings 

LANGLEY, Helen Phoebe of 17 Devonshire Road, Hastings (wife of Arthur Sydney Langley) died 11 June 1953. Administration London 19 August to the said Arthur Sydney Langley, retired schoolmaster. Effects £1308, 2s, 2d.