{"id":87,"date":"2026-06-06T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/?p=87"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:52:13","slug":"board-in-venice-kate-blundy-moore-u-k-and-u-s-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/2026\/06\/06\/board-in-venice-kate-blundy-moore-u-k-and-u-s-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate (Blundy) Moore (1878-1966)- U.K. Birth and U.S. Death Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kate (Blundy) Moore, an English immigrant, ran a Venice, California boarding house in the 1930s and ’40s. To tell Kate’s story \u2014 from a Dickensian childhood in England to a road trip that touched Florida, Texas, and San Diego before landing in Venice \u2014 I dug through census records, ship manifests, city directories, newspaper clippings, probate files, and more. The records span three countries and six decades. These are some of the records used to reveal Kate’s story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full story is told in Board in Venice, available on Amazon<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kate Blundy birth record shows she was the daughter of Henry Blundy and Sophia Matilda Hutchings.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kate Blundy Moore Death Record<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Los Angeles Co., California, Certificate of Death, no. 7097-053790, Kate (Blundy) Moore, 31 December 1966.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Kate’s death certificate confirms her death on 31 December 1966 in Los Angeles County \u2014 New Year’s Eve. The certificate identifies her as a widow, consistent with the absence of a husband in records from the 1930s onward. Researchers should note that the death certificate’s informant and their relationship to Kate can reveal previously unknown connections \u2014 particularly valuable for a woman with no children and distant English relatives. The informant was M. C. Rogers, her neighbor, and eventually an heir to her estate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FEATURED IMAGE: CoPilot AI illustration 2026, drawn from author’s photograph of boarding house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate (Blundy) Moore, an English immigrant, ran a Venice, California boarding house in the 1930s and ’40s. To tell Kate’s story \u2014 from a Dickensian childhood in England to a road trip that touched Florida, Texas, and San Diego before landing in Venice \u2014 I dug through census records, ship manifests, city directories, newspaper clippings, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14,6,17,49],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death-record","tag-board-in-venice","tag-california","tag-death-records","tag-uk-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}