Catherine Mellena Lowder, Margaret Amy Lowder, Julia May Lowder

[FAfromC]

I will stop posting for now and see what Frank has to say about our findings Neale   

Dear Rosie and dear Neale, Frank is very, very happy!  Thank you very much for your quick and professional support and the valuable tips. I'll try to make it further from here! Really great! Yesterday I had the feeling that I was facing an insurmountable obstacle and then you came! Really brilliant! Greetings from Cologne and have a nice day - Frank

[rosie99]

  

It is interesting to see that according to the probate index when Catherine Lucretia died in 1940 her 'estate' was quoted as being £1,424 16s 6d.  and when Edward died in 1943 his was £70. 10s. 1d. 

That tree Neale has linked shows who Margaret married and that she probably spent her life in Australia but it gives no information on Catherine Mellena.

It looks as though Julias husband died in Sussex
Death Dec qtr 1964   
LLOYD REES    GEOFFREY E   age 64   
WORTHING reg dist    5H   805

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Catherine Mellena Lowder at some point prior to 1921 married Herbert Allen Courtney, they appear on 1921 census. By 1939 Hebert is a widow.

Gro Consular Death Indices (1849 To 1965)
Amoy, China 1926-30

Catherine M Courtney aged 36

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Catherine and HUBERT are on passenger list going to Kedah in  November 1921

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[Neale1961]

Margaret Amy Lowder married Sydney James Stutley, an Australian, in 1919.
Wedding announcement …..
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/213261953?searchTerm=Lowder%20AND%20Stutley

Here is a brief biographical article about Sydney J Stutley …..
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129155647?searchTerm=%E2%80%9CSydney%2520stutley%E2%80%9D

Margaret or Mrs S J Stutley has various mentions in the social columns in the newspapers.


Mr. Sydney James Stutley gave some lectures on Chinese art.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63714335?searchTerm=%E2%80%9CMrs%2520s%2520stutley%E2%80%9D
And
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63712373?searchTerm=%E2%80%9CMrs%2520s%2520stutley%E2%80%9D

Here is a brief mention of Mrs. S J Stutley and her 3 children leaving Adelaide for England in 1927.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/54877805?searchTerm=%E2%80%9CMrs%2520s%2520stutley%E2%80%9D

Their 3 children born in South Australia were Joan Catherine Mellena Stutley born in 1920, James Dunster Stutley born in 1923, Thomas Lowder Stutley born in 1926.

[Neale1961]

Their 3 children born in South Australia were Joan Catherine Mellena Stutley born in 1920, James Dunster Stutley born in 1923, Thomas Lowder Stutley born in 1926.

Looks as if there was another child born in England - Peter William Stutley born in Bromley England in 1927.  A marriage for him in 1951 on Isle of Wight, Hampshire to J. M. Attrill. I think he worked as a magistrate.  I can see him travelling to England from Capetown South Africa in 1957 with wife & three children.


Thomas Lowder Stutley died 26 June 1964 in Limerick Ireland. His probate records may give names of family.


James Dunster Stutley – 1951 reference to him as 2nd Lt in the Intelligence Corps
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39114/supplement/129/data.pdf
Also mention of him and a wife in divorce court
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/277146534


Joan Catherine Mellena Stutley marriage in 1946 Surrey to Richard William Collis
She appears with the Collis surname, with 2 young daughters in 1953 on a ships passengers list arriving in Liverpool from Lagos


We are not able to name living people on this forum. To look for marriages and names of children mentioned in this post, use Free BMD https://www.freebmd.org.uk

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The Times of London 13 July 1988

Meg Lowder-Stutley died 1 July 1988 age 89

[bbart]

The "Andrews Newspaper Index Card" collection has a mention of a 20th Anniversary in 1950, of a couple Geoffrey Elwyn Lloyd Rees  (Lloyd Rees being a double surname), and a Julia May Lowder, that married 03 Feb 1930, at Ste. Andre, Biarritz. Sadly, I have not yet found the actual article.

This couple, with the double surname, does appear in the 1939 Register, but we can't discuss the details of that. (copyright).  However, there is a name blacked out with them, which usually means a child, who may still be living.
Hopping over to https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl  if you click to search births, and enter surname as just "Rees", and mother's maiden as "Lowder", you will find a possible daughter.

The https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/  carries some English language papers from China, and there are some mentions of the family.

The Carl Smith Collection (Hong Kong) has a few items on the family as well.  I think I can direct link;  make sure to use the arrows to scroll, as Carl kept names together, so there may be more than one card per entry.  Click to get to the end of each entry, and you will find the download link.
https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarl.xhtml?names=lowder&page=1

[FAfromC]

Dear Bbart and dear everyone,
thank you very much for these very useful tips!!!
It looks like I'll have a lot to do on Sunday, following
the tracks and moving forward.
Thank you very much for the help.
Never thought this would work!
Really brilliant!
Greetings from Cologne
Frank

The "Andrews Newspaper Index Card" collection has a mention of a 20th Anniversary in 1950, of a couple Geoffrey Elwyn Lloyd Rees  (Lloyd Rees being a double surname), and a Julia May Lowder, that married 03 Feb 1930, at Ste. Andre, Biarritz. Sadly, I have not yet found the actual article.

This couple, with the double surname, does appear in the 1939 Register, but we can't discuss the details of that. (copyright).  However, there is a name blacked out with them, which usually means a child, who may still be living.
Hopping over to https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl  if you click to search births, and enter surname as just "Rees", and mother's maiden as "Lowder", you will find a possible daughter.

The https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/  carries some English language papers from China, and there are some mentions of the family.

The Carl Smith Collection (Hong Kong) has a few items on the family as well.  I think I can direct link;  make sure to use the arrows to scroll, as Carl kept names together, so there may be more than one card per entry.  Click to get to the end of each entry, and you will find the download link.
https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarl.xhtml?names=lowder&page=1

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