Hi Bob
Gertrude Gobbett or Patterson of 13 (or 18?) Hall(e)swelle Road, Golders Green, London, died intestate on 25 March 1954. Her estate was administered in 1956 by her son Royston, an electrical fitter. I believe his first wife was Josephine Marian Ritter (1913-1970; m. 1935). I don't know whether his second wife or his granddaughter Victoria are as involved as Cathy and Melanie in researching his father. I've never heard from any of them.
I haven't checked Gertrude's marriage record (Brighton district, 1908 Q1) and I don't see her in the index of births, but I'm reasonably sure Godley was her maiden name, so I presume Mr Patterson was a later partner, perhaps not married because she wasn't legally divorced from her husband. Her age was said to be 70 in 1954 but she was 9 in 1891 and 19 in 1901, although only 25 in the 1911 transcript:
1891: 49 Cheltenham Place, Brighton, with father Henry [d. Brighton 1896 Q4?] and mother Marian A. Godley (RG 12/812 f. 87 p.47)
1901: 19 Jubilee Street, Brighton, with widowed mother Mrs Annie Godley (RG 13/930 f.143 p.17; Ancestry's "Hookey" and "Gooley" now corrected)
1911: Brighton district - Gertrude Gobbett (b. Brighton 1886) in same household as Mary Ann Godley (b. Birmingham 1849)
Gertrude's husband David was probably the "Daniel" Gobbett who had left for New York aboard the St Louis on 20 August 1910 (
www.findmypast.com; TNA ref. BT 27/688/3/4/12). She followed him in June 1911.
I now realize that I was too hasty to associate Gertrude's sister-in-law Ann Gobbett (b. Canning Town, West Ham, c.1900) with Ethel Annie (1898-1973), wife of Sidney Clarence Lambert (1897-1976). Ethel's father has been identified as Joseph Gobbett (1870-1952), a son of Rebecca Gobbett (b. Hinderclay SFK 1850; m. Joseph Cudby or Cadby 1874; d. Stratford, West Ham, 1941; probate to Ethel Annie Lambert). So Ann is quite likely to have been the film editor, A. R. Gobbett, despite the apparent lack of any corresponding entry in the GRO index of births.
David