Author Topic: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?  (Read 3552 times)

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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #19 on: Monday 24 August 20 08:36 BST (UK) »
Thanks, barryd. Interesting.

Especially a brother 'Gust J Lewington' who doesn't appear in the birth indexes or in any census with the rest of his family.
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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #20 on: Monday 24 August 20 10:12 BST (UK) »



1871 Gust J Lewington 10y Scholar ( and others )
20 Royal Circus,685/1 St George, Edinburgh St Stephens, Midlothian
ED:   77,  House:   11, Line: 14, Roll: CSSCT1871_157
Line above is John NE Lewington 11y
Plus others [ Parents Thomas LF, Christine M, Bro Charles H ]
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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #21 on: Monday 24 August 20 10:33 BST (UK) »
Thanks, [Ray].

I assume that that is a transcription from Ancestry. Only they could ****** up a transcription to that extent. No wonder I couldn't find any mention of Gust J Lewington in any primary sources.

The original is a bit messy but it is George F J. And as for how they got Lewington, goodness only knows. 

FindMyPast's transcription got it right.

See attached.
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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 12 January 21 03:18 GMT (UK) »
Very interesting, I will have a good read of this thread as my 4th great grandmother was Anne Livingstone who married Rev John Fenton and won a court case thus her Fenton children were able to inherit her father's estate at Bedlormie. My grandmother was Eveline Katherine Fenton.  :)

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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 12 January 21 16:47 GMT (UK) »
Yes, there is certainly plenty of material about that court case - a very interesting one.
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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 12 January 21 17:23 GMT (UK) »
While on the topic of the Fenton-Livingstone family, I see from the 1911 census that, following her mother's divorce and remarriage to Alfred Nicholson Sanderson, daughter Janet Grace, born 1899, is listed in the 1911 census as Janet G Sanderson, and that a Janet G Sanderson, aged 20, travelled to Singapore in October 1919, interning to live permanently in Malaya.

I can't find any reference to her in the Australia, New Zealand or Singapore newspapers, or in fact anywhere else, so I can't be sure that the one who travelled to Singapore is JNEF-L's daughter.

Has anyone else come across her anywhere after 1919?
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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 12 January 21 20:27 GMT (UK) »
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You obviously saw the John in Salford 3rdQ 1933 whose age (74), matches his birth and pondered.

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Re: What became of John Nigel Edensor Fenton-Livingstone?
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 12 January 21 21:26 GMT (UK) »
Thank you. I didn't ponder long.

Apart from the difference in spelling, the absence of any middle initials, and the possible candidate in the 1939 Register, the grant of probate was to a William Livingston and Margaret Kerridge née Livingston who appear to be the children of John Livingston and Margaret Hagan. So I concluded that he isn't JNEF-L.
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