Ruby Risbridger

20/12/1927 — 04/02/2015
A brief biography

Ancestors


Risbrig — 1198 —
William de la Risebreage — 1276 —
John atte Rysbrugg — 1425
Henry Ryesbrigger of Albury — 1430 —
John atte Rysbrygge — 1461 —
William Rysbrydger — 1553
John Rysbrydger of Shere ±1520 — 1563
William Risbridger 1546 — 1615
John Risbridger 1579 — 1631
William Risbridger of Shere 1611 — 1645±
John Risbridger of Capel 1642 — 1695
Thomas Risbridger of Newdigate 1679 — 1736
John Risbridger of Charlwood ±1703 — 1772
Lashford Risbridger of Charlwood 1760 — 1806
Emery Risbridger 1793 — 1856
William Risbridger 1837 — 1894
William Risbridger of Bexleyheath 1878 —
Ruby Risbridger 1927 — 2015
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Ruby Risbridger


Daughter of William Risbridger and Lilian Agnes Flowers. .

Born in Elephant & Castle, London in 1927, the seventeenth year of the reign of King George V, and died aged eighty-seven in Lewisham Hospital – buried Chatham Cemetery in the sixty-third year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II  She has 2 direct descendants in the family.


During the second World War, Ruby was evacuated to Cornwall, along with many other London children. When she returned at the tail end of the war, the Germans were still dropping bombs on London, and it was while she was working in the Co-op at Belvedere that she narrowly escaped death. A bomb had dropped nearby and the blast shattered the windows above where she had been standing only minutes before. Apparently, a customer had entered the shop and Ruby had stepped away from the window to serve her just as the bomb dropped.

In 1947 Ruby married George William Davis, who had spent four-and-a-half years of the war in a German POW camp (Stalag 8b - Teschen). Their first home was a rented a flat in Bexleyheath, where her two children – Sheila and Jeff – were both born.

Following the death of her father, William Risbridger, Ruby’s mother, Lilian, eventually moved in with them. With someone to help watch over the children, Ruby was able to take in sewing to help pay the bills and save money to buy a place of their own. Eventually managing to raise the deposit, they finally bought a house in Northumberland Heath, Erith.

After a spell as a cinema usherette at the Odeon, Erith, Ruby returned to the Co-op in Woolwich, where she worked until her retirement in 1982. She and her husband George then bought a bungalow in Lordswood, Chatham. When George died in 1987, Ruby continued to live there alone until 2006, when she finally moved back to Belvedere into sheltered accommodation.

In 2014, Ruby was diagnosed with Vascular Dementia. After several subsequent admissions to hospital, it was then deemed unsafe for her to continue living alone. She was therefore admitted to a care home in Sydenham, near to her daughter.

After only four months in the home, Ruby was eventually admitted to Lewisham Hospital where she died in February 2015. Her ashes were then buried with her husband’s in Chatham Cemetery.

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