Sproston -Langton-Prescott families of London & Australia

[avm228]

London electoral rolls show Rupert and Eve (Warre) Prescot (and, in due course, adult children of theirs) in the Lewisham area 1935-1963.  Rupert Warre K Prescot died in Lewisham in 1971.

Eve's trip to London with her 2 young boys in 1929 (as reported in the papers covering the blackmail story) can be traced in passenger lists - she arrived at Southampton on 5 May 1929 as Eve WARRE-PRESCOT, giving 354 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush as her address in the UK. The boys were 2 and 3 yrs old respectively.

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One Arthur Langton, 19, clerk, arrived at Southampton from Australia on 11 May 1931.  His address in the UK was "Mayfield", Weobley, Herefordshire. Future intended residence: England.

I haven't yet pinned down whose address this was, but I note that Rupert W K Prescot's father Charles Warre Prescot resided at King's Pyon House, Weobley when he died in 1922.

Some of the 1920s Aussie newspapers about Eve/Eva seem (perhaps forgivably) to have got Herefordshire and Hertfordshire confused .

[JaneyCanuck]

Yes - the Rupert death I mentioned above - but the Rupert marriage in 1954 was, I now see, the son's marriage.

What of Eve/Eva after 1963 then? I wonder whether she moved with her son to Saskatchewan (1974); it was after the point when any passenger or BMD records are available. The family in England (see the obit, and there is a listing at 192.com) would surely know, and might know all about this story.

Mayfield:
http://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/smrSearch/Monuments/Monument_Item.aspx?ID=12514
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-149915-mayfield-weobley-

but can't spot it as an address in 1881 or 1911.

[Smokey807]

I have been following you postings closely and see you have made great progress. Apart from information on related family members to summarize ,if I understand everything, we have Eva Sproston in the 1901 census in Tunbridge Wells. Then a marriage to an unidentified Mr Langton in England sometime before the marriage of "Eve" instead of Eva Langton to Rupert Warre Kenrick Prescot (instead of Prescott from the newspaper accounts) by a British Consul in Bilbao,Spain. Then we have the birth of a son to Eve Sproston and Rupert in 1925 (Dec 23 in Adelaide Australia) which establishes the Prescot's in Adelaide.

No doubt Eve's marriage in Spain was during a vacation in the country rather than their country of residence as the Prescot's were based at Herefordshire and the newspaper accounts refer to the blackmail gang knowing the "Prescott's" as Herefordshire. Eve (Eva Prescott) is still based in Adelaide in 1929 (from the newspaper accounts) but still waiting for confirmation that her husband had anything to do with St Peter's College (they havnt replied to my inquiry yet).You found her travel record with two children May 1929 which ties in with her claim in the newspaper that she was visiting England with two children.  Then we have Eve and Ruperts son Rupert being in the Royal Air Force then going to Canada for pilot training, got his medical degree etc etc;moved to Canada in 1974 where he practiced until his death October 5,2010 and we see he got married and had several children and grandchildren.

So just need to establish the occupation of Eve's husband Rupert Prescott; and although many other things could be explored its the part of Eva Sproston's life after the 1901 census including her marriage to  a Mr Langton and then up to her marriage in Spain sometime before 1925 to Rupert Prescot. We don't have Langton's  name/marriage/death or details about any Langton children apart from "the eldest son" Arthur Langton.

Eva Sproston seems to have done very well for herself marrying into a prosperous Prescot family and its no wonder she and her husband became targets of the blackmail gang who targeted the wealthy.When was the death of Eve's husband Rupert? I seem to have missed that part of the story.

[avm228]

Eve's second husband was Rupert Warre Keir Prescot (the names Kenrick occurs elsewhere in the family).  He died in south London (Lewisham) in 1971.

Nothing has been found on Eve's first marriage.  She may have married Mr Langton and/or had Arthur overseas.

[avm228]

No doubt Eve's marriage in Spain was during a vacation in the country.

We don't know this - she may have spent years in Spain or elsewhere in continental Europe for all we know. The marriage 1921-25 is the first we see of Eve after her 1901 enumeration in Tunbridge Wells. Rupert was a teacher - might that occupation have given him travel opportunities too?

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One Arthur Langton, 19, clerk, arrived at Southampton from Australia on 11 May 1931.  His address in the UK was "Mayfield", Weobley, Herefordshire. Future intended residence: England.

I haven't yet pinned down whose address this was.

Good news on this.

Rupert Prescot (occupation: teacher) arrived in Southampton from Adelaide on 10 January 1931.  Had been resident in Australia, but intended future residence England.  Address in the UK: Mayfield, Weobley, Herefordshire.

[JaneyCanuck]

At this point I do think that since we have established that Eve has living grandchildren, in Canada and England, the appropriate thing to do would be to contact one of them. (Contact info for the named grandson in England can be obtained by paying for it at 192.com; there does not seem to be a telephone listing to match it.) It is their family being discussed here and while it is all of academic/curiosity interest to us, it is personal to them, and besides, there is little point in third parties hunting for information that is likely available directly from people who know.

[Smokey807]

Ok it looks like we have gone as far as we can. Thank you very much for all your help. I will take it from here now.