1887 Ada Webb married a George Beckett in Marylebone in Apr/Jun 1887. There appears to have been a daughter by this marriage Beatrice Beckett
1888 Feb 7 Born Marvel Beatrice Beckett. at Steyning , Sussex
1891 census at Poulton Bare and Torrisholme, Lancs
1901 census At a school in London
1911 census. A visitor at 17 Ruth Square Dorset St Sheffield. Note Joe Redfern is also there. I infer that he is brother of Mary Edwards
1911 Apr 15.
1912 Jan 4. A son was born to Marvel Beatrice Beckett in Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding. .He went to Australia with Ada, his grandmother, 22 years later,
1913/1914 Most of the press cuttings for Val Gerald are at this time. Either the work dried up, or she changed her name - which she may well have doe on leaving her husband in 1914
1914 Oct Her husband enlisted, served theough the war, won MM and was demobbed in Jan 1919). When he enlisted he was working at Stewart Speedometers in Bloomsbury
1916/1926 references to her being on stage as Quiller Vallerie
1926 She committed suicide by Gassing
