Hello Angua,
Hopefully I found the correct person now as I had originally thought that Charles Ellson was the great grand-child of Donald C-B.... a trigamist indeed !
The information posted below will hopefully explain everything. It is a copy of a reply that Charles sent to me last week. I assume that if we are talking about the same Donald then Priscilla was one of his three wives.... although it seems that they probably didn't stay together very long as she continued to live at 57 Ebury Street until 1970 at least and judging from the phone directories he was living there for only a few years.
i look forward to hearing from you
Adrian Donne
On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:12:55 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello Charles,
>
>Priscilla Donne was the daughter of Walter Donne, a cousin of my
>great-grandfather, an artist of middling repute and Winifred Payne-Galwey.
>She was born in the Kensington area in 1906.
>
>An old ' Donne' family tree made in about 1950 had her married to a ?
>Creighton-Balfour although it was rather vague in its assertion.
>
>There were no children from this union, I was quite sure. However I did a
>Google search of Creighton- Balfour and came up with a few of your threads
>on Donald that you had posted on various internet sites in the past few
>years.
>
>I have discovered that a Priscilla Creighton-Balfour died in Depwade,
>Norfolk in 1992 aged 86. I have also discovered that a P Creighton-Balfour
>and a Major D Creighton-Balfour in 1950s had separate telephone numbers for
>the same house, 57 Ebury Street, London SW. This was the house that Walter
>Donne had used as a studio for many years, he had died in 1948 aged 85 and
>had obvious left it to his only child, Priscilla. It seems that Major D
>Creighton- Balfour had a separate house in Wallington, Surrey also.
>
Assuming there aren't two of them :-( .
From the London Gazette 14 Aug 1959:-
Name of Deceased: CREIGHTON-BALFOUR, Major Donald
Address, description, date of death: The French Horn, Steppingley,
formerly of The Salisbury Crest, Essendon, Hatfield, Publican. 5th May
1958
=====
LG 8 Jun 1945:-
OBEs (Military)
Major Donald Creighton BALFOUR, Controller of Manpower, Gibraltar
=====
LG 26 Jul 1940
111887 Capt Donald Creighton BALFOUR promoted to Lt.
=====
LG 22 Oct 1929
RESERVE OF AIR OFFICERS
..undermentioned officers relinquish their commissions on completion
of service:-
Flight Lts.
Donald Creighton BALFOUR 1 Oct 1929
>It seems from what you say that your great-grandfather was a rather slippery
>character.
He isn't my ggf, I am not the OP.
>Obviously because of her age, Winifred could not been your
>grandmother, but it seems that towards the end of Donald's life, he was
>either conducting an affair, moved in with, or married Priscilla, (although
>again, I have no evidence of marriage, it probably wasn't Donald's style
>!!!!) although the relationship must have reached a certain level for her to
>have taken his name.
>
>Because of the evidence I am about 80% convinced that this is the same
>Donald. I would welcome any of your comments so we can confirm or refute my
>assertions above.
>
You could try for copies of wills which might name relatives and in
the case of Priscilla might give a rough guide to when she married
(i.e. going by the last time she was known by her maiden name).
The Times has a marriage entry on 25 Feb 1953 for John Brian
CREIGHTON-BALFOUR, youngest son of Maj. D Creighton-Balfour MBE, The
Bull Hotel, Wrotham and Mrs _M_ C-B. There is also a death
announcement on 16 Apr 1983 (d. 13th April) for Dorothy, 97y, daughter
of Sir Ralph and Lady Frankland PAYNE-GALLWEY, aunt of Priscilla; no
place is given but the cremation was in Chichester.
