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Gloucestershire / Re: Eva Dobell : poet
« on: Sunday 23 September 12 11:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi!

Thank you so much. This is pretty well the silver bullet I was looking for.
She is referred to as Eva in the context of brother and parents. She is definitely Eveline Jesse.
You've even come up with a precise dob rather than the quarter in which it happened. The GRO is being very slow but I expect this week I will have her birth certificate to round it off.

Great work. I'm grateful.

Alf

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Gloucestershire / Re: Eva Dobell : poet
« on: Wednesday 19 September 12 14:03 BST (UK)  »
Hello Gene Genie!

Yes indeed: she was Sydney Dobell's niece.
Thanks for reference.

Alf

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Gloucestershire / Re: Eva Dobell : poet
« on: Monday 17 September 12 23:38 BST (UK)  »
Well...

The biggest purveyor of what I think is wrong information about Eva Dobell is probably Wikipedia. Simply because it tends to dominate the google -sphere.
(I don't know about Ancestry problems.)

So I've taken the liberty (open to everyone) to edit Wikipedia's entry for Eva Dobell.

I will sit and await what that generates, but I'm now very sure. Even to the extent that sources happily say her uncle was Sydney Dobell, but Eveline is the only niece who would fill that bill.


Thanks for help and support. I'll be back if it goes pear-shaped.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Eva Dobell : poet
« on: Monday 17 September 12 12:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi KGarrad!

Eveline's death  is recorded in Cheltenham: age 87. I've ordered  a certificate in case there are any clues (e.g. occupation  - I should be so lucky!)
Eva's death doesn't seem to be recorded at all. But neither is her birth. Maybe she died abroad. being a traveler as previously noted. But if that were so it seems highly likely it would register in the biographical material on her. And that wouldn't explain the lack of birth info.
The absence of marriages and children is common to both Eva and Eveline. But that closes avenues of enquiry even if it does add to the case for shared identity

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Gloucestershire / Re: Eva Dobell : poet
« on: Monday 17 September 12 11:40 BST (UK)  »
I had thought about the possibility of the 6 and 7 being swapped. Accidentally? But when? By whom? Did she know? Had she at some point wanted to appear older than she was? So many questions and a bit short on answers as yet.
I've no information on Minchinhampton on her or any of the Dobells. But it's not all that far from their stamping ground.
I picked up the Gibraltar to Plymouth sailing. This connects with a comment in one of the biographical notes on Eva that she traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa.


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Gloucestershire / Eva Dobell : poet
« on: Sunday 16 September 12 20:38 BST (UK)  »
Eva Dobell was a well-respected poet writing about what she saw as a nurse among the casualties of the first world war.
I can find no provenance for her: birth, death etc.
I can find Eveline Jesse Dobell, who died in the same year (1963) but was born in 1876, whereas Eva is credited with a dob of 1867. Eveline's  father was Clarence Mason Dobell and he is well documented.
The only reference to Clarence as Eva's father I have found is on a site www.allpoetry.com but again without evidence.
Wikipedia believes Eva's dob (without sources) and scores of other sites repeat the same information.
It seems to me the two people are one and the same.
Can you help to prove or disprove this?
Eveline Dobell's family lived in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Elinor M. Poynton
« on: Friday 05 November 10 09:30 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all so much for a mine of information. This will keep me busy!

AlfD

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London and Middlesex / Elinor M. Poynton
« on: Thursday 04 November 10 01:30 GMT (UK)  »
Looking for information on Elinor M. Poynton who married George Webster Green Armour in 1956 in London. She died 1959 aged 47. Helpgratefully acknowledged!


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Buteshire / Re: Arran McCabes
« on: Saturday 12 June 10 18:45 BST (UK)  »
Hi Arranroots!

Thanks for a quick response.

First, County boundaries are a bit of a mystery and seem to depend in part on when as well as where. Thanks for that advice.

I think the period is late 17 century to 18th century. Long time back and at the moment more history than genealogy, if you see what I mean.

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