Jane Madeline McEACHARN [4117]
- Born: Abt 1873
- Marriage (1): Col. Conyers William ALSTON [4105] on 25 Mar 1905 in Amersham Transvaal SA
- Died: 9 Feb 1958, Penryn Bury Rd Gosport HAM aged about 85
- Buried: 14 Feb 1958, Sharnbrook Church
 General Notes:
The Census entry is not proven to Madeline.
Madeline may have been the Madeline Alston the widely published author of books on South Africa.
British Phone Books, Ancestry.
Mrs Conyers Alston
Address:Home Close Medstead Hampshire
Exchange:Medstead, No 3157
Directory Title:Essex/ East Suffolk/ East Hertfordshire / Norwich/ Cambridge / South Midland / Guildford / Canterbury / Brighton/ Tunbridge Wells
Publication Year:1938
Directory County:Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Norfolk
Page Number:8
Mrs Conyers Alston
Address:Home Close Medstead
Exchange:Medstead No 3157
Directory Title:Southend-on-Sea / Colchester / Norwich / Cambridge / Bedford / Oxford / Reading / Guildford / Tunbridge Wells / Canterbury / Brighton Jan
Publication Year:1946
Directory County:Essex, Norfolk, Cambridge, Bedford, Oxford, Berkshire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex
Page Number:6
After the War Madeline went again to Africa this time to Rhodesia, but returned to England c1950.
England Deaths Index.
Alston Jane M aged 85 Gosport Ref: 6b 379
Research Notes:
A bibliography of White Southern African women writers 1800-1940.(Bibliography)
ALSTON, Madeline (1874-1948).
"From the Heart of the Veld." By Madeline Alston. London: John Lane The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, 1916. Bod. 20749 e. 190. BL 010094.de.1.GPL.
"From an Old Cape Homestead. London: John Lane, 1929. Bod. 620.12r.110. BL 012352.b.53. GPL.
"Wanderings of a Bird Lover in Africa." By Madeline Alston. With a foreword by the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, P.C., G.C.M.G. With coloured frontispiece and pencil drawings by Moubray Leigh. London: London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1937.Bod. 1896 166.e.3. BL 7286. ppp.26. GPL.
"Sunbirds and Jacarandas. A Bird Lover in Rhodesia." [With plates.] Cape Town and Johannesburg: Juta & Co., 1951. BL 7288.i. GPL.
Ref: http://business.highbeam.com/2106/article-1G1-131780183/bibliography-white-southern-african-women-writers-18001940
Other Records
1. Census: Scotland, 1881, Rosebank Dunoon & Kilmun Argyll. Madeline is recorded as Jane M a daughter aged 8 a scholar born Glasgow SCT
Jane married Col. Conyers William ALSTON [4105] [MRIN: 1420], son of Sir Francis Beilby ALSTON K.C.M.G. J.P. [4091] and Lady Emily Louisa Caroline TAYLOR [4097], on 25 Mar 1905 in Amersham Transvaal SA. (Col. Conyers William ALSTON [4105] was born on 12 Feb 1873 in St George Hanover Sq, baptised on 3 Apr 1873 in St Michael Chester Sq LND and died on 11 May 1934 in King Edward VII Hospital LND.)
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