Hello Hugo,
Thank you for the photos. I remember seeing The Cocoa House but never ventured in it.
There is no rush to go to the archives.
Elizabeth Kerridge in the 1939 register is thought to be the same Elizabeth Kerridge that died in Llandudno in 1947. The only doubt is that in the 1939 register, her year of birth is shown as 1869, rather than 1859 which is the correct one.
It is a long story this one. My great grandfather, Albert Abraham Kerridge, had an older brother, Henry Francis Kerridge (HFK) born 1860. There was never any mention of HFK by the family and in 2005 a family surfaced in New Zealand who were descended form HFK. They had been unknown to anyone prior to that. One of them came over about 2011 and we did some research to find that HFK had been a solicitor in Brighton and had a breakdown which resulted in him being committed to the Brighton Asylum in 1894. He stayed there until he died in 1921. In the 1881 and 1891 census returns HFK had a wife, Eliza and two daughters, Edith Ethel Kerridge and Gertrude Frances Kerridge. We have searched extensively but cannot find a marriage between HFK and Eliza (maiden name Hayler).
In the 1901 census both Edith and Gertrude were with my great grandparents and their family in Leamington Spa. Eliza was known to be living in Brighton in 1905. In the 1911 census she is living in London with her daughter, Gertrude. Her name in that is Elizabeth Kerridge, widow.
Edith Ethel Kerridge went out to New Zealand in November 1904, she arrived in Wellington and in June 1905, she gave birth to a daughter. The family in NZ descend from this child. Subsequent to that, Edith appears in an electoral roll in Wellington in 1908 but after that there is no trace of her so far.
My great grandparents moved to North Wales in the early 1900s. They had pubs and hotels all over, from the Harp in Corwen to The Station Hotel in Blaenau Ffestiniog. They settled in Conwy, Llandudno Junction and then Llandudno eventually. They were in Llandudno by 1908. Gertrude Kerridge must have moved with them and she is shown as the proprietress of The Gwydyr Hotel in Dolwyddelen when she died in 1913.
It is possible that Elizabeth Kerridge moved up to North Wales, possibly to join her daughter Gertrude. Someone has found an article in an old Welsh paper about a Mrs Kerridge at the Gwydyr Hotel, Dolwyddelen and this is dated 1915. It isn't Gertrude as she died in 1913. We wonder if that is Elizabeth Kerridge.
Nothing more is known about Elizabeth Kerridge until the entry in the 1939 register, then the death registered in 1947.
It is likely she moved to join her daughter, or the Kerridge family. Proving it is something else. The street and commercial directories may answer the query over her.
Helig