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Cynthia

Cynthia Report 20 Oct 2011 19:05

Tssssk.....I meant Donald of course! I too am giddy with this thread....


Diane has that effect on one! :-D :-D

FannyByGaslight

FannyByGaslight Report 20 Oct 2011 18:13

Duncan??????

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 20 Oct 2011 17:01

My contact on FB tells me that it was very common for girls from the Island to go to London to become nurses. The names Ishbel and Duncan are incredibly common. I am hoping to hear back from her soon - I recommended that she reads this thread to see where we are up to.


Evelyn...........take heart and keep your chin up.... <3 <3 <3

wisechild

wisechild Report 20 Oct 2011 15:05

So Christophine GF was a nurse.
Diane was a nurse too for a time.
Any connection to be found there??

Tabitha

Tabitha Report 20 Oct 2011 14:42

Evelyn - don't lose heart - we are all here trying to give moral support - even if it is virtual only from this distance.

I think you should write a novel - once we find her it will make great reading.

i will see if i can find anything at Dover Castle - may just be a red herring

Take care - <3 <3

Evelyn

Evelyn Report 20 Oct 2011 10:45

Hello Everyone,
feeling giddy with all the action on here at the moment, thank you all for your interest and input, please dont hold back just express your thoughts I will not be offended, I know Diane told many porkies so anything is possible and I am delighted to hear your ideas.
Life for me at the moment is very difficult with Ron being so ill, so please dont think that I have lost interest in the thread just that medical activities have taken over my life and I am feeling rather knackered as well as very sad, I keep telling myself that life must go on but am finding it hard to believe myself.
Much love to you all
Evelyn XX

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 20 Oct 2011 09:54

Thanks all. We're pretty up to date on the Fenwick Goddard scenario - in fact, I drew a rough family tree out for myself a couple of months ago - just to try and keep track of them. As I said before...a very interesting family to research but we can't link them as being related to Diane as yet.

It may well be that Diane and her husband were just lodgers in Evelyn FGs house. I just have a niggling feeling that there is more to it than that though! If you know what I mean.

I will email the school where EFG taught later today. Must get showered and dressed.........such laziness..... :-D

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 20 Oct 2011 01:40

according to a Private Family Tree

Christophine Sarah was born ca 1844, Devon


and marriage records show she married a Goddard


Christophine Sarah C Fenwick Oct-Nov-Dec 1868 Warwick Warwickshire George Stephen Goddard Oct-Nov-Dec 1868 Warwick Warwickshire



which I am sure you already knew!





sylvia

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 20 Oct 2011 01:37

This HAS to be connected somehow


The image shows the name to be Goddard-Fenwick

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941 about Christophine Sarah Caroline Fenwick

Name: Christophine Sarah Caroline Fenwick
Probate Date: 21 Mar 1906
Death Date: 30 Nov 1905
Death Place: Surrey, England
Registry: London


from image-


of 160 Rosendale Road, Dulwich, Surrey, widow, died 30 November 1905. Administration (with Will) London 21 March 1906 to Christophine Fanny Georgina Goddard-Fenwick, spinster. Effects £957 8s 6d




sylvia

Jooleh

Jooleh Report 19 Oct 2011 22:49

You're too quick for me Jan! So, another nurse, like the sisters who became nuns.

Jooleh

Jooleh Report 19 Oct 2011 22:47

She was there all the time -don't know how I missed her!


Household FENWICK, Christopher Fanny Georgina Goddard 1871 40  F Wandsworth London

Transcript anyone?

Thanks

Julie

jansmith

jansmith Report 19 Oct 2011 22:47

death
Name: Christophine F G Goddard-Fenwick
Birth Date: abt 1870
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1947
Age at Death: 77
Registration district: Wandsworth
Inferred County: Greater London
Volume: 5d
Page: 706

jansmith

jansmith Report 19 Oct 2011 22:42

1911 here she is
Reg. District: Wandsworth Sub District: Clapham
Parish: Wandsworth Borough Enum. District: 12
Address: 7 Sibella RD
County: London

Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth
Year Occupation Where Born
WRIGHT, James Cornwall Head Married M 85 1826 Retired Architect London St Martins Parish
WRIGHT, Ida Sophia Wife Married
54 years F 75 1836 London St Georges Parish
WRIGHT, Ada Mary Daughter Single F 49 1862 London Islington
WEBB, Maria Servant Single F 43 1868 General Servants Domestic Banstead Surrey
NEAL, Robert Edward Thomas Boarder Single M 77 1834 Retired Mercantile Clerk Deal Kent
FENWICK, Christopher Fanny Georgina Goddard Single F 40 1871 Sick Nurse Leamington Warwicksh

Jooleh

Jooleh Report 19 Oct 2011 22:34

Shame about the will. I just remembered that I never found Evelyn's sister Christophine in 1911 so that might be worth pursuing if anyone else wants to try!
Her full name was Christophine Fanny Georgina Goddard or Goddard Fenwick born Leamington, Warwick 1869
(The other other sisters Louisa and Gwendolen were nuns in 1911)
Julie

was plain ann now annielaurie

was plain ann now annielaurie Report 19 Oct 2011 21:42

Perhaps the descendants of the cousin might know something - we are desperate for information, after all! Did the information on the siblings give us anything that we didn't already know, like addresses etc?

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 19 Oct 2011 20:27

Hi Annie......his name was Marcus Stapleton-Martin of Norton Worcestershire. I googled him earlier and there are some items on there about him. Evelyn GF left him .....the picture of the Heiress of Rishworth (an ancestor of ours). As I said, it's a pity we aren't researching that family.....so much to go on!






:-)

was plain ann now annielaurie

was plain ann now annielaurie Report 19 Oct 2011 20:20

Oh how disappointing about the Will. Who was the cousin?

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 19 Oct 2011 19:56

Such kind people indeed! Lovely, lovely, people all trying to help. <3



Thank you for that Quoy - I thought the name Lemmens rang a bell and it does! We came across that entry earlier and I found that Gerard Lemmens was a member on here. I sent him a message in September but it remains unopened. Another brickwall....sigh.



Anyway......

I have at least received the Will of Evelyn Goddard Fenwick. Nothing in it about Diane at all. Her effects are left to her siblings and a cousin.

It seems she was a violin teacher for many years at the City of London School for Girls. I am going to contact the school in the vain hope that they may have either some more info on EGF or a pupil by the name of DLM. One can but try.

Evelyn does know about this as I told her before I posted on here.

Sorry Evelyn......another disappointment for you. It's a pity you aren't related to the GF's.....quite an interesting family to research.



Next............................?





Quoy

Quoy Report 19 Oct 2011 18:04

and Donald Stanley


From Ancestry message boards

Anyone who may have known my step-grandfather, my aunt would appreciate information. She says, "My Dad's name was Donald Stanley McLeod. He died, we think, in 32. He would have been born in the late l890s, as he was only in his 30s. He died in Ramsey Co. Hosp. (Minnesota) He was a licensed chauffer a Shriner. He came from Scotland as a boy , first to Canada later
to the states." He was part of the family for only a short time, but his daughter and her family would like to find more of their family. If you can help, please reply. Thanks.

and a reply

We have a Donald Stamley Macleod on my wife's family tree :

Donald Stanley Macleod , born 1890 Tarbat Manse , Parish of Rockfield, Rosshire

His brother Murdo John Macleod emigrated to South Australia and we just received his descendants !

Regards from England,
Gerard Lemmens

and a possible for Roderick image says teacher and going to Isle of Lewis
Roderick Macleod
Birth Date: abt 1901
Age: 29
Port of Departure: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Arrival Date: 23 Nov 1930
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ship Name: Montclare
Search Ship Database: View the 'Montclare' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Canadian Pacific Line

Quoy

Quoy Report 19 Oct 2011 17:57

Just to show update on Jean

University of Glasgow
Graduate Record for Jean Annabella Macleod


Forename: Jean Annabella
Surname: Macleod
Degree Information: MA (1910)

and possibly where she was in 1911

Miss Jean Macleod
Birth Date: abt 1889
Age: 25
Port of Departure: South Africa
Arrival Date: 21 Jul 1914
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Natal
[Port Elizabeth]
[Cape Town]
Ship Name: Balmoral Castle

Further information from the University records:

Registrar's Handwritten Roll of Graduates gives the date of birth as 17 February 1888