Genealogy Chat

Golly everybody.
You are amazing and thanks very much.
I actually live in Auckland NZ and had found the letter in a second hand book I bought. However, when I looked Pauline up I had discounted her as there were a few with the same name in the UK and I had believed her to be English. Perhaps she went to England to especially check with the College of Arms.
However, I think you have all clarified it now and I will follow up on the NZ info you have given me. Hopefully a family member will want the letter back.

This gives some useful leads for living relatives of Pauline:

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3m7/macfarlane-edith-mary

From trees on ancestry it says originally the family came from from France but desecendents were born in London but eventually settled in New Zealand

So seems the visits could have been to see relatives

Her father who married several times

Name: Louis Adolphus Durieu
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 16 Oct 1831
Father's name: Louis Adolphus Durieu
Mother's name: Salia Elizabeth Durieu
[Julia Elizabeth Durieu]
Parish or Poor Law Union: Holborn St Giles in the Fields
Borough: Camden
Register Type: Parish Registers

So she doesn't show on any electoral roll for the 1950,s at that address because she is a New Zealander who visited the uk from time to time

Wonder if there are any Durrieu in the New Zealand white pages now . They could have a family connection

Name: Pauline Durrieu
Electoral Year: 1981
District: Eden
Region or Province: Auckland
Address 305 Mount Eden Road. Retired
With a Herbert Durrieu retired

Pauline Durrieu
BIRTH: 20 Apr 1889 - NZ (New Zealand)
DEATH: 10 Sep 1988 - NZ (New Zealand)
PARENTS: Louis Adolphus Durrieu

Pauline Durrieu
Electoral Year: 1911
District: Grey Lynn
Region or Province: Auckland
Mount Eden road
Living with a Louis adolphus Durrieu an accountant married
And Rebekah Durrieu married

So maybe parents or a married brother

Edit it looks like they are her parents
Rebekah Eliza Jane Durrieu
Birth Date: abt 1861
Death Age: 75
Death Date: 21 Jul 1936
Burial Place: Auckland, New Zealand
Cemetery: Hillsborough

Pauline Durrieu was living at 305 Mt Eden Road, Auckland, in 1981 ER along with Henry Herbert Durrieu, both retired.

According to a tree on Ancestry Henry died in 1982.

Henry shows as her brother in several trees on Ancestry.

Contacting all the tree owners looks your best means of finding someone related.

Pauline Durrieu
in the New Zealand, Teacher and Civil Service Examinations and Licenses, 1880-1920

Name: Pauline Durrieu
Residence Year: Abt 1918
Residence Place: Auckland
Publication Date: 28 Feb 1918
Publication Place: Wellington, New Zealand

The trees on Ancestry have some very promising leads, but very few people still called Durrieu.
Pauline arrived in England in 1950 age 61 and left in 1952 back to NZ (arrived May) on Ancestry travel information.

This could be her she was a teacher

UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960
Name: Pauline Durrieu
Gender: Female
Age: 50
Birth Date: abt 1889
Departure Date: 21 Oct 1939
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Destination Port: New York, USA
Ship Name: Seythian
Search Ship Database: Search for the Seythian in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping line: Cunard White Star Limited
Official Number: 143730
Master: R D Finlow

Returned after retiring

Name: Pauline Durrieu
Birth Date: abt 1889
Age: 61
Port of Departure: Wellington, New Zealand
Arrival Date: 21 May 1950
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ship Name: Rangitane
Search Ship Database: Search for the Rangitane in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping line: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd
Official Number: 183153
Address in uk c/o Nat West Bank N Z. 8 Moorgate London

Went out again and intended to live in South Africa

Name: Miss Pauline Durrieu
Gender: Female
Age: 61
Birth Date: abt 1891
Departure Date: 8 Feb 1952
Port of Departure: Southampton, England
Destination Port: Cape Town, South Africa
Ship Name: Arawa
Search Ship Database: Search for the Arawa in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping line: Shaw Savill Aleion Co
Official Number: 140148
Master: W G West
Address in uk c/o Nat West Bank of N Z 8 Moorgate London

Pauline Durrieu is in several trees on Ancestry - are any of them of any use?

There was a Pauline Durrieu born 1889 in NZ in a tree on here (possible siblings Henry and Josephine). Try to contact the tree owner?

Just realised - you did not mention that her name was Pauline on your original posting.

Sorry, I thought you were interested in a descendant of either person mentioned in the letter.

If you want someone who may know of Pauline Durrieu, then you might want to put her name in the title line of the thread so that it can be picked up on a google search.

If the letter was dated 1951, we can guess a birth date for her from any time after about 1870 to 1925? We might assume she came from France but could be Canada or elsewhere?

Thank you very much to the people who have taken time to reply.
However, I'm not tracing the the family of the Francis Moult's crest which had the Armorial Bearings recorded in 1686.
I was hoping that someone connected to Miss Pauline Durrieu of 20 Ladbroke Square, Holland Park W1 would be interested in getting the letter back again.
But once again, many thanks
Judith

There is a Gary Moult of Kitchens and Tilings of Tollerton - try google search.

William E Moult who married Charlotte Yeomans in 1913 may then have married Gertrude Walters in 1919.

There is a William E Moult, 1888, living with Gertrude Moult, 1895, 3 others (Frederick, Walter and Jane) and 1 closed record, in 1939, In Nottingham CB

Jane might be June, to fit with a birth and later marriage.

I cannot see a Francis Moult born in 1903 in Nottinghamshire.

Francis Moult born 1911 in Mansfield died in 1929.

I cannot see a marriage or death for Francis J Moult, born 1913, Nottingham.

I think the mother of Francis J died shortly after his birth (Charlotte nee Yeomans).

It may help to contact the college

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk

the only francis moult's born in Nottingham was years ago 1903 and 1911 and 1913

Tallarton probably should be Tollerton, a village just south of Nottingham.

An earlier Francis Moult, of Tollerton was granted arms in 1586 - maybe an ancestor:

http://tinyurl.com/hfwqxgd