Dorothy Edith Woolgar was born on 25th June 1893 in Islington London, to Parents Edwin Ernest Woolgar and Amy Rose Lucy Goble who were both born in Worthing and married in Broadwater in 1891. Dorothy was the first born of four to the family in 1893, then Amy 1895, Ernest 1896 and Charles 1901
The family were living in Willesden and her Father was a bootmakers manager. In 1901 Dorothy and her sister were living in Worthing with their father's mother Louisa Woolgar who was a widow, while her Parents and the youngest child Ernest remained in Willesden sharing a house with another family.
By 1911 Dorothy and her parents and Siblings are all living together in Worthing at The bridge House, 122 becket Road and Father Ernest is working as a Master Bootmaker and running his own business. Dorothy is working as a bookkeeper for a grocer and 17 years old. Sister Amy is Bookkeeping for a Drapers shop and Ernest is working as an Errand Boy.
Grandmother Louisa is living less than a mile away in Hertford Road but dies on March 1st, 1915 and is buried with her Husband in Broadwater cemetery.
By 1916 The family are living at 76 The Drive in Worthing and Sadly, Dorothy becomes ill with Inflammation of the Kidneys and on December 2nd Dorothy dies of Acute Nephritis and Uroemic Convulsions, and Coma.
Dorothy was laid to rest at Heene Cemetery on the 6th December. On December 13th her parents put an acknowledgement in the Local paper