Hi everyone
Thank you for your replies. We had already found Viola's marriage to Albert Edward Brownrigg-Fyers. However, the maiden name she was fictitious! There is no record of a Violet Ruth Moncrieffe. She also gives her father's name as Phillip Moncrieffe, again there is record of a Phillip Moncrieffe. Who she really is is Violet Ruth Gunthorpe born 1892 in Herefordshire, daughter of John & Louisa. Violet gave birth to an illegitimate son, born at The Metropole Hotel, Brighton in August 1914. According to the family his father was Herbert Ponting, the photographer of the Antartic Expedition. Violet did not keep the child, she left him with her sister, Doris Todd and her husband Charles.
Violet disappears until 1918 when she marries Edward Albert Brownrigg-Fyers. She gives birth 3 months later to a daughter. She again disappears, leaving the baby with her husband's parents, until she marries Cecil Sprey-Smith in 1922. Cecil was from a Colonial family. He was a Capt in the Army and then a professional tennis player/coach.
As you an imagine this woman is driving me mad!
