Freda Francks Doeg 
(nee Balshaw)                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                                         Research by Marjorie Gregson   

Fred Balshaw married Mary Helena Francks in Bolton in 1886 and it was their younger
daughter, Freda Francks Balshaw, born in 1894, who was the donor of Courtyard Scene, Kings Arms, Kendal.

Mary Helena was born in Bolton in 1861 and died in the Fylde in 1931.

Freda married Charles Sheffield Doeg in 1917 at the Methodist Church in Rawcliffe Street, South Shore, Blackpool.

Charles was born in 1892 in Scotby, near Carlisle, and was educated at Carlisle Grammar School. In the 1911 census he was described as a clerk. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War and received the Silver War Badge, which honoured those who were discharged because of wounds or illness.

Their son, Charles, was born in the Fylde in 1918. The family lived for a time at 6 Seventh Avenue, South Shore, Blackpool, certainly from 1924 to 1934.

Charles Sheffield Doeg died in Barnet, Hertfordshire in 1967 and Freda in Bournemouth in 1986.


Also donated by Freda Francks Doeg:  5 watercolours at present unlocated
Portrait Study of Capt Daniel Forshaw of Lytham, Master Mariner acc No 146
Wyre Dock, Fleetwood
Vicarage Garden
Pleasure Beach, BlackpoolKilcree