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Happy birthday in advance - Lovely to see you back with us again

We have soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo missed you
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Octogenarian Old bird now then EV.....
Hoppy Hoppy Bufdy Old bird for when it arrives....
And have a lovely day...~~~~~~ ;-)

Thanks for the birthday wishes.
Viv did you get my E Mail?
What a wonderful Birthday present it would be if Diane turned up.
Off to ruffle my feathers
Love
Evelyn XX <3 <3

Just spent hours reading this post.

Now I dont even know if this is possible (maybe Wood,y can advise) just something that struck me as I was meandering through the thread.

Would the local Church that the family used have any searchable records?

perhaps meetings, applications for poor relief etc.

Sometimes people are named for various reasons in these records might show light on who she stayed with.

Trying to think outside the box :-)

Happy birthday Evelyn.

Happy 80th Birthday


Evelyn


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HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY EVELYN
xxxxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

evelyn

enjoy your birthday as much as you can

sally w

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Sending Happy Birthday wishes to you Evelyn :-)

(and ever hopeful that 'something' will bring a breakthrough for you, with this 'Thread')

Chris :)

Thank you everyone for your good wishes, 29th is the big day, it will be lovely to spend it with my family
Love to you all

Have a good birthday Evelyn.
Mine is the 30th, so I´ll raise a glass to the two of us.
Marion

I wish you a very happy Birthday Marion
Evevelyn X

Hello Everyone,
here I am back from my travels, I had a wonderful birthday and am now the owner of an I Pad, I am learning (slowly ) how to use it, seems to be a very clever little gadget but I bet it cant find Diane!!
Love to you all
Evelyn X

Hello Evelyn, proud owner of ipad!!


I will try and get an up-to-date precis of where we are with Diane sorted as soon as I can.

When we kick into gear again re what has been researched, it would be helpful if those involved could check the page numbers I give to save going over old ground.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if some new and relevant material has been published on line since last year??? :-D :-D


Will do my bestestestest...... :-D



Back later ~~~~

thank you so much Cynthia, you really area gem. XX

Okay folks.....here we go.........


DIANE LESLIE MacLEOD born cJune 1906-8 India?


No verification of this birth can be found whatsoever. Searches have been
made of Indian, Scottish and English births by many people but to no avail as yet.


Possibilities: This is not her real name.

DIANE: Searches have been made under: Donaldina, Dolinda, Dolina etc. - nothing found.


LESLIE: She was very attached to her middle name of Leslie and insisted it was spelt that way. She gave the name to one of her sons. Some searches have been made re this name but maybe we need to do more.


MacLEOD : On her marriage certificate (1929 in London), she states her
father to be Major Robert MacLeod of the 1st Seaforth Highlanders, Deceased. Nothing of him can be confirmed despite extensive military searches being made. These can be found on ps 2-4 and 14-15 – 29 and 36 of this thread.


Her family were told that she went to live on Stornoway with ‘Aunt Kate and
cousins Donald & Ishbel (Isabelle)’. This family has been researched as probably the family of Rev. Donald MacLeod who was the minister of the church in Tarbat. The present Incumbent of that church has been contacted and was most helpful.


That family consisted of:
Donald Smith MacLeod 1854 -1930 in Roseneath, Dumbarton.
Kate Isles Wylie 1864 - 1935 (Widow) in Roseneath,
Jean Annabella 1888 - ?
Katherine Mary 1890 - ? Married Archibald K. MacLean.
Donald Stanley 1890 – Lieut. RN.
Murdo 1891 - Wounded at Gallipoli
Lizzie Isles 1893 – Married a McMurchie
Hector Ian 1895 – 1916 Killed in Action
Ishbel 1896 – 1976 in Inverness. Married a Grieve
Barabel 1898 – 1923 in Cornwall
Norman 1900 – Wounded in France 1918
Margaret 1900 - ????
Roderick Callum 1902 - ?
Barabel, who was a Seed Analyst, for the Board of Agriculture, died at the
age of 25 in Cornwall. FBG discovered a family by the name of Bolitho one of whom married a MacLeod from Ross-shire. See p. 44 of this thread for more details.


Various agencies in Tarbat have been contacted re this family and Diane but nothing found.


Diane stated that she went to school in Stornoway. The most likely school
would be the Nicolson Institute. A search has been made for her under D.L.M but there is no sign of her under that name.

Other local schools have been contacted but there is nothing to be found under D.L.M.


Some doubt has emerged as to whether or not Tarbat is the right place to be looking as it is too far away from Stornoway.


There is no sign of a DLM on the 1911 Scottish census see p.41


The first absolute sighting we have of her is when she started work at Springfield
7.6.1927 - 19.6.1928. There are, apparently, no more notes in her file.


In 1929 she married, as Diane Leslie MacLeod, a Herbert R.J. Roy in London. Up until her marriage, she received a private allowance, source unknown.


The address given on her marriage certificate is 53 Khartoum Road, Wandsworth, London. The Electoral Roll for 1929 shows the family living at that address were named Kirby. There is no sign of Diane anywhere in Khartoum Road . She may just have been boarding there for a short time prior to her marriage.


Our Evelyn was born in 1932 at 44 Dafforne Road, Wandsworth and Diane and her husband show up there on the Electoral Roll. The voters listed at 44 Dafforne Road in 1932 are:


Evelyn Gertrude Goddard-Fenwick Herbert Robert John Roy, Diane Leslie Roy, Kathleen McDowell. The voters listed at the same address in 1931, in case it is of relevance, are Frederick Robert Smithson, Alice Smithson, Edward Hubert Mearing, Doris Mearing, and Kathleen McDowell, and in 1933, Evelyn Gertrude Savile Goddard-Fenwick, Emily Goddard-Fenwick, and Kathleen McDowell. It looks very much as though this was a house which had lodgers.


Some research has been done on the other occupants but nothing worthwhile was found.


Evelyn Goddard-Fenwick is whom our Evelyn is named after and was her
Godmother. See ps. 22-23 of this thread for more details.


Various living Goddard-Fenwick’s have been contacted but to no avail. You can pm me for details on that. We have, over the last couple of years, drawn up a fairly comprehensive family tree for the G-Fs but simply cannot trace the connection.


Just before the search drew to a halt last year, Evelyn remembered her mother reading a local newspaper (Dorset?)in the early 1950's and finding either an article or an obituary about a very old lady who had died in Stornoway aged 91. She stated that it was Aunt Kate.


Scotland's People was searched for possible deaths but again, we drew a blank. It would be helpful if we could get a copy of that newspaper but that's rather a longshot I think - unless ????


So this is where the search is up to so far and many members have taken Evelyn and her search to their hearts.


If anyone feels they would like to tackle any of the unresolved issues or
re-check anything that has already been done….please do so. It may be that something has been missed or new information is available. Any new info can be added on here.


Evelyn dearest, could you please verify the name of the newspaper for us - it may just be that someone lives near to where the records are kept and could spend some time in a search. We live in hope....... :-D


Cx

TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE THE PAPER WAS CALLED THE DORSET DAILY ECHO
Cynthia you really are a gem, thank you so much for all your hard work, I really do appreciate it
Evelyn X

You're welcome Evelyn....... <3


Okay.....anyone out there from Dorset ????? :-D

And with the Probate Index now up to 1966, mystery Aunt Kate could well be on it!, lol.

Hmm...

Chris :)

Good to have the info in one place - thanks, Cynthia.

There are a few possibilities of deaths on the Probate Index on Ancestry but not all Scottish wills would be included, of course.

I find it a bit odd that there would have been a mention in a Dorset newspaper, unless she had a strong connection to Dorset, was of a great age (perhaps 100, or over), she left a fortune in a will or she had an unusual death, for example.