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26 Oct 2015 09:46 |
The above lady lived in Keats Grove Hampstead London NW3 and employed my grandmother as a cook. Round about 1924 she paid my grandmother for my then 12 years old mother to pose for a portrait. The portrait hung in the Royal Academy summer exhibition but was not sold. It was then given as a gift to my grandmother and I still have it. I would dearly like to find out more about this lady and whether or not she had Scottish origins. I don't even now if she was a maiden lady or if Burns was her married name. Any advice please on how to start. Thanks for any advice.
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MarieCeleste
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26 Oct 2015 10:06 |
The middle name may be useful:
Margaret Delisle Burns in the London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
Name: Margaret Delisle Burns Year: 1932 County or Borough: Camden Ward or Division/Constituency: Hampstead Street address: 3 Keats Grove
Also listed is a Cecil Delisle Burns, plus Ethel Stratfull.
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26 Oct 2015 10:08 |
Name:Margaret Delisle Burns (living with Cecil)
Year:1926
County or Borough:Camden
Ward or Division/Constituency:Hampstead
Street address:3 Keat's Grove
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26 Oct 2015 10:10 |
Looks like their marriage:
Cecil Delish Burns in the London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 Name: Cecil Delish Burns [Cecil Delisle Burns] Estimated birth year: abt 1880 Age: 33 Spouse: Margaret Alice Hannay Spouse Age: 24 Record Type: Marriage Event Date: 21 Nov 1913 Parish: Primrose Hill Borough: Camden Father Name: James Burns Spouse Father: Alexander Arnold Hannay Register Type: Parish Register
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Here's the image
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/edit/20490512
The fact that Margaret is listed as an artist tallies with the portrait.
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26 Oct 2015 10:12 |
BURNS, Margaret Alice Delisle
1888 - 1974
As Margaret Alice Hannay, she was born in London on 9 July 1888, daughter of Arnold Alexander Hannay and his wife Alice Mary née Howard, who married at Hastings, Sussex in 1883. Margaret was the sister of Alexander Howard Hannay (1889–1955), art critic of the 'London Mercury', who published 'Roger Fry and Other Essays' in 1937. She was a student at the Slade School before the First World War, where she won the prize for figure drawing in 1910 since when she has worked in France, the United States and Italy, taking as her chief subjects the old buildings of these countries. She married in 1912 the eminent national and international civil servant and academic Cecil Delisle Burns (1879–1942). A landscape and figure painter she has painted under the name of Mrs. Hannay and Margaret Delisle Burns and she has exhibited at the Goupil Gallery, the International and the New English Art Club. Her earlier architectural drawings were done in Dieppe when she first adopted the method of drawing in Indian ink with body-colour on brown. The obituary notice for her husband in 'The Times' of 23 anuary 1942 said that she was ‘a gifted painter and etcher’ they had two sons. She lived in Hampstead and in 1927 they built, at a cost of £1,000, Walberswick House at Walberswick, Suffolk which was destroyed by enemy action in World War Two and her riverside studio was washed away in the 1953 East Coast Floods. She died in the North Surrey district in 1974.
There is lots of info about her and husband Cecil if you google.
EDIT: Above found at: http://www.suffolkpainters.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=2985
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MarieCeleste
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26 Oct 2015 10:13 |
Nice one Dea!
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Gee
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26 Oct 2015 10:16 |
Name: Cecil Delisle Burns (lecturer)
Arrival Date:5 Jan 1912
Birth Date:abt 1880
Birth Location:West Indies
Birth Location Other:bassettere
Age:32
Gender:Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality:English
Port of Departure:Liverpool, England
Port of Arrival:New York, New York
Ship Name:Lusitania
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26 Oct 2015 10:17 |
The birth of Margaret's father shows that there is indeed a Scottish connection:
Alexander Arnold Hannay in the Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 Name: Alexander Arnold Hannay Gender: Male Birth Date: 26 Jan 1858 Birth Place: Dundee,Angus,Scotland Father: Alexander Hannay Mother: Mary Agnes Hawson FHL Film Number: 6035516
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MarieCeleste
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26 Oct 2015 10:18 |
An example of Margaret's work:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/london-back-gardens-39098
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26 Oct 2015 10:19 |
Could this be her husband? Spouse was Margaret Hanny.
C. Delisle Burns Born (1879-01-26)26 January 1879 Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies Died 4 February 1954(1954-02-04) (aged 85)[dubious – discuss] Dorking, England Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge Occupation Atheist and secularist writer and lecturer Spouse(s) Margaret Hanny Children Two
Cecil Delisle Burns (26 January 1879 - 22 January 1942) was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer.
Early life[edit]Burns was born in Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies[1] where his father was treasurer of St. Christopher-Nevis in the Leeward Islands. After leaving Christ's College, Cambridge, he was trained in Rome for the priesthood, but left the Church in 1908 and devoted time to the study of social problems in a wider sense.
He was appointed as a regular lecturer at South Place Ethical Society, at Conway Hall in London, in 1918 and continued to lecture there until his health deteriorated in September
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26 Oct 2015 10:19 |
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
Name: Alice Hannay [Alys Hannay] Probate Date: 5 Sep 1934 Registry: London, England Death Date: 31 May 1934 Death Place: Middlesex, England
Alys Mary Hannay of 11 Ranulf Road, Hampstead, Widow, died 31st May 1934...Probate..to William Newman Howard, chartered accountant, Robert Stewart Erskine Hannay retired lieutenant RN and Margaret Delisle Burns (wife of Cecil Delisle Burns)
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MarieCeleste
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26 Oct 2015 10:30 |
There's a chapter on Margaret in this on-line book, including several more of her etchings:
http://goo.gl/DPYiS4
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jenVG
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26 Oct 2015 10:39 |
What can I say apart from WOW! Thanks ladies & gentleman. I am nearly 77 and have been wondering all my life about it and you have answered in less than as many minutes! Thanks you so much. I shall print this off and fasten it to the back of the painting so that my family will not have to wonder!
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26 Oct 2015 10:52 |
Name:James Cecil Patrick Delisle Burns (otherwise Cecil)
Probate Date:2 Jun 1942
Registry:Llandudno
Death Date:22 Jan 1942
Death Place:Surrey, England
Admin with Will to: Margaret Delisle Burns (widow) £3492 4s 4d
Name:Cecil J P D Burns
Birth Date:abt 1880
Date of Registration:Mar 1942
Age at Death:62
Registration district:Surrey South eastern
Inferred County:Surrey
Volume:2a
Page:1240
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jenVG
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26 Oct 2015 11:04 |
I see that they had two children so that is my next job - after the shopping. regards Jennifer
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26 Oct 2015 13:22 |
One of her Paintings....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/london-back-gardens-39098
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26 Oct 2015 15:26 |
Margaret's father was from Scotland
1911
Name:Alexander Arnold Hannay
Age in 1911:53
Estimated birth year:abt 1858
Relation to Head:Head
Gender:Male
Birth Place:DUNDEE, Dundee, Scotland
Civil Parish:Hampstead County/Island:London
Street address:34 Avenue Road, Hampstead N W
Marital Status:Married
Years Married:24
Estimated Marriage Year:1887
Occupation:SOLICITOR
Registration district:Hampstead
Registration District Number:8
Sub-registration district:Hampstead
ED, institution, or vessel:26 Piece:616
Household Members:
Alexander Arnold Hannay 53 Alice Mary Hannay 45 Katharine Hannay 16 Mary Call 33 Elizabeth Birks 36 Beatrice Chesnaye 21 Emma Adams 27 Albert Edward Elvin 17 ----------------------------------------------------
Name:Alexander Arnold Hannay
Gender:Male
Birth Date:26 Jan 1858
Birth Place:Dundee,Angus,Scotland
Father:Alexander Hannay
Mother: Mary Agnes Hawson
FHL Film Number:6035516
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27 Oct 2015 13:20 |
possible/probable children
Births Mar 1915 (>99%) Burns Benedict De L Hannay Marylebone 1a 1060 Scan available - click to view Births Mar 1920 (>99%) Burns John D D Hannay Hampstead 1a 1357 Scan available - click to view
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27 Oct 2015 13:25 |
Benedict Delisle Burns retired neurobiologist Benedict Delisle Burns, British retired neurobiologist. Fellow Royal Society London; member International Brain Research Organization, Physiological Society, Experimental Psychology Society. Background
Burns, Benedict Delisle was born on February 22, 1915 in London.
Education
Bachelor, Cambridge (England) University, 1936. Career
Member research staff National Institute Medical Research, 1945-1950. Associate professor physiology McGill University, 1950-1958, professor physiology, 1958-1966. Head division physiology and pharmacology National Institute Medical Research, London, 1966-1976.
Member external staff medical research Bristol (England) University, 1976-1980. Visiting University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, since 1980.
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27 Oct 2015 13:59 |
Probate--James Cecil Patrick Delisle Burns - otherwise Cecil Delisle of Edgehill, Deepdene Park Road, Dorking Surrey died 22/01/1942 Administration with will to Margaret Delisle Burns,widow, £3,492. 4s - 4d
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