Eleanor Duncan

[Kincaid444]

I am trying to find the eventual fate of Eleanor Duncan. In 1901 she can be found with her family in Derby, when she was 9 years old.   Father was a prison worker.

 In 1911, now 19, she is a student teacher at the British and Foreign School's Society Training College in Stockwell, London.

I have managed to find the fate of most of her siblings but she eludes me, and she is the one I am really interested in.

She was born inLiverpool, but I believe her father may have moved his family around because of his postings within the prison service.   My interest in her is occasioned by the fact that I have come into possession of her friendship book.

Hope you wonderful people can help me - and I am not being sycophantic - you really have been generous with you help in the past.

Regards,
Kincaid

[Flattybasher9]

Do you know if she had a middle name??

Regards

Malky

[heatherjulie]

Hi
there is a baptism in Liverpool for a Margaret Eleanor Duncan.

There is a marriage for an Eleanor Duncan to Arvid J A Osterberg at West Derby Liverpool in 1921. There is a death of Arvid J A Osterberg in January 1994 in Leighton Buzzard.

There is also a will for Eleanor Duncan who died in Lancashire in 1937.

Heather

[heatherjulie]

I don't think she married Osterberg because the Eleanor who married him was the daughter of Francis Brand Duncan

[Kincaid444]

Good evening Malkie and Heather,

Thanks very much for your posts - I wil certainly follow up the Will, Heather.   I could not find a middle name, Malkie.

It is so frustrating because I managed to trace the marriages of siblings and the birth of their children and even the marriages of those children, and I am certain I located the whereabouts of those living descendants, but in spite of sending them messages via social media I have had no replies.

I really just want to know what happened to Eleanor so that I can draw her story to a close - From her book she was a very intelligent and sensitive woman and I don't really want her to disappear into the past unremarked.

Best regards,

kincaid

[Kincaid444]

I will check out that birth, Heather - though I have only ever found her as Eleanor, is is entirely possible she had a forename she did not use because she did not like it.   And I know the Eleanor I am looking for was born in Liverpool

Kincaid

[Flattybasher9]

There is a June 1942 death in Newcastle, for a 39 year old Eleanor Duncan. That's the only one I can find in the correct age range.

Regards

Malky.

[Kincaid444]

Thanks, Malky - I will almost certainly send for that certificate - It is entirely possible she never married, especially after the carnage of the first world war which resulted in the loss of so many eligible men.  The dates in the book ar around 1906 when she would have been 14.

I will definitely come back to let you both know the results

Kincaid

[Kincaid444]

There is a ten year discrepancy in the age for the death, Malky, but I am almost desperate enough to think there was an error somewhere . . .. Clutching at straws comes to mind . . . Ha ha.

Kincaid