Majorie Downing LIVEING [455]

  General Notes:

Marjorie visited Alston Court 7 June 1963

Birth Ref Sept Qtr Hambledon 1891 2a 145 BDM

Marjorie Downing Liveing
Baptism Date: 2 Aug 1891
Baptism Place: Bramley Holy Trinity, Surrey, England
Father: Henry George Downing Liveing
Mother: Margaret Liveing
FHL Film Number: 2262180

Electoral Register
7 May 1945
Epsom
Allcock's Lane Copt Gilders
Liveing Marjorie D
Liveing Francis D
Liveing Henry G D
Liveing Margaret

Liveing Marjorie, 20 Evelyn Mansions Carlyle Plc
SW 1 Victoria 5094
Ancestry: London phone book 1945/46/47

Liveing Marjorie Downing of 6 the Mount St Leonards on Sea died 4 September 1978 Probate Bristol 8 December 1978 £14,765. 780905989K
National Probate Calendar.

This may be Marjorie Liveing [9737]

  Other Records

1. Marjorie Downing Liveing: Images as a younger women.

2. Census: England, 2 Apr 1911, Hyde Vicarage Winchester. Marjorie is recorded as a daughter aged 19 single born Bramley SRY

3. Marjorie Downing Liveing: Letter to Edward H T Liveing, 29 Nov 1920, London.
Liveing Archive: Images 3700 - 3704

24 Grevile Road
NW 6
Nov 29 (19)20
My dear Uncle Eddie
I got your letter this morning forwarded on from Rothersthorpe. I am away from home until next April about the beginning of December: I am taking charge of the flat & servants, &
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last, but not least the small baby of a friend of mine, who is going out to India, and will not be back till the end of Mar - so till then I shall be in London. I very much look forward to coming down to visit you and aunt Emily in April when I am
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3 once more, and can hand the baby over to its mother (if it is still alive by them!!). It is most interesting to hear that you have fou(nd) the interesting entry in the Harwich register of your great great great grandfather, I will get hold of the correct dates
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of our branch of the family, also the Rands & let you have them. Cousin Charlie's address is:10 Albert Court London SW7.
I am afraid the news of poor Aunt Suzie is no better. She is still in much the same condition
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absolutely miserable, & frightfully depressed, she never speaks a word they say from the time she gets up in the morning till she goes to bed at night. Of course she suffers from absurd delusions about herself. It's so tragic to see her so utterly different
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like quite another person. If only it had taken a happy form it would have been better, but to see her so absolutely wretched & hopeless is tragic.
Edward has got a very nice job for four months he is going out to Egypt with a Professor
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Blackman an Egyptologist, who is taking some boys out as well. Edward is going to tutor them while the Professor examines ancient remains. They go via Italy and will stay in Venice for a few days at Christmas then motor across Crete &
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Gandia - on to Alexandria, Cairo, & finally the upper Fords of the Nile which will be their head quarters They will probably go up to Luxor before returning home in April. He has got a story into the November number of Blackwood's Magazine
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Dad & Mother will be quite alone for Christmas all the family being away. I believe it will be the first time that none of us have been at home for Christmas. I must not write more now. How is the Beast going these
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days? I do hope you're keeping well I should not think that Arthur MacDonald can be having a very comfortable time in Dublin just now!!
Yours affectly
Marjorie Liveing

4. Marjorie Downing Liveing: Letter to Edward H T Liveing, 25 Mar 1921, Northampton.
Liveing Archive: Images 3712 - 3714

The Vicarage
Rothersthorpe
Northampton
March 25 21
My dearest Uncle Eddie
I have had the offer of a very specially good job in India, to be the secretary to Mr Holland the governor's agent in Rajpentana. it seems to (sic) good to refuse such a chance of seeing the world. The difficulty is finding L200 cash for the passage, & my outfit. Though I shall get L100 a year out there, & all expenses paid. Dad has promised by making a special effort to find me L100
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& I am writing to ask whether you would consider the possibility of a lending me L100 for 12 months, when we will undertake to repay it. We expect to be in a better position to find the cash at the end of another year. I should not have thought of worrying you about this, only Dad has had already to withdraw L200 from capital to complete Teddie's time at Oxford. My very great friend Joan Lethbridge has had the post but she is coming home to be married - so the post is vacant. She says the life is most interesting they travel into all the native
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states, paying visits to the Maharajah's when he (Mr Holland) goes on tour.
I wonder whether you & Aunt Emily have been away yet, as you were talking about it when I was staying with you. I am still with the Goscombe John's and am only down here for two nights to discuss this proposed arrangement. I go back to London tomorrow, my address will be
24 Greville Rd
St Johns Wood
NW6
If I do go I shall have two sail about May 6th I think.
Please give much love to aunt
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Emily. I hope that you are both keeping well.
With love
yours affectly
Marjorie Liveing

5. Marjorie Downing Liveing: Letter to Edward H T Liveing, 31 Mar 1921, London.
Liveing Archive: Images 3705 - 3707

Greville Rd
St Johns Wood
NW6
March 31 21
My dearest Uncle Eddie
Ever so many thanks for your letter, & so kindly sane that you would lend me a L100. It is really very dear of you, many many thanks. Since writing to you the situation has altered somewhat. To start with I felt when I got back to London that
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considering the money question all round, it was too much of a risk for me to take, as there would always be the possibility of my crocking up. So I wrote to Catherine & asked her whether she would like to take on the job, the post takes some time so I have not yet had an answer but expect to hear today. Now this morning I have had a letter from the fiance of my great
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friend Joan Lethbridge, whose post I was to fill, and he says I can stand out for my passage both going out and coming back. That very much alters things and I should not then feel I was risking so much. I should only have to ask you to lend me the money for a very short time, until I get out there and get it refunded. Until I hear from Catherine
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I shall not know which of us will go. If she cables to say she will take the job I shall let her go because I think she is so very well fitted for the post & she will have chucked up her present job. I can keep on with this one ad: lib: I am so sorry that you have been seedy again it is wretched for you. Poor dear Uncle George I did not know he had
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been in bed with his leg bad again. Please give him my love & sympathy when you next see him.
My love to Aunt Emily & yourself, & again many thanks.
I will write in a day or two & tell you what has been definitely settled.
Your affect^ate niece
Marjorie Liveing
P. S. How goes the pedigree?
I am sure, Catherine my grandmother did not take this post because she was married in August 1921 in London, only 3 months after the proposed sailing date in May. I have no idea if Marjorie went. C.H.B.