Doris was the youngest of the courtman tribe being born 20 December
1912 in the family home of bridge street, Chelmsford.
She married Walter wade in the Parish Church in Chelmsford, later to
become Chelmsford Cathedral. She had one child by Walter, a girl by the
name of Jean. she is said to have lived a few years and died young. We
still have not traced when she died, or where she is burried.
During the Second World War, Doris worked in the naafi canteen at the
Colchester barracks, where she met Charles James Fraser who was a soldier
in the Royal Engineers stationed for a time there. It is not known if she
had separated from Walter when she and Charles first met, and fell in love.
After the war she and Charles lived together as man and wife in a small
flat in Chelmsford where their daughter jean was born in 1946.
Doris tried to gain a divorce from Walter but it is assumed he would not concede, she obviously felt bad about not being married and decided to change her name by deed poll to fraser, this gave her some respectability but it still would have troubled her.
Between 1946 and 1948 they had moved to stoke Newington, London where
it is presumed they went for Charles to seek work. They stayed in a small
flat in Boleyn grove, stoke Newington where they had a second daughter
Janice born 1948.
They continued to live and work there and had a third child James born
28 December 1950.