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Preface
I'm not sure where this came from; presumably JERS sent it to me. The file is dated 2004-03-19. --Woozle 16:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
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| 1861 | Montague Stephens born |
| 1871 | Edith Bailey born |
| 1892 | MS @Jersey&Gorey |
| 1894/5 | MS @Rio/Montevideo/Belem |
| 1896 | Montague Stephens marries Edith in Falkland Is. |
| 1896-99 | M&E@Canobie Canada Maurice born |
| 1899 Feb 2 | Biddie born in Esquimault BC |
| 1902 Sept 30 | Eric Rayner born Thaton Burma Clive born (?) |
| 1903 Oct 27 | Phyllis born at Saltash Cornwall |
| 1905 | Stephens’@Bermuda |
| 1909 July 23 | Daphne born Whitchurch Tavistock Devon |
| 1918 October | E.’s father dies (Stella Lodge 49th.St.Rangoon)
“When I saw him I had a shock. I hadn’t seen him since the previous Christmas holidays when I had made a bullock-cart trip with him to Shwegyin, to which he had just been posted - our last cart-trip together...now he was gaunt with a wasted smile and a weak voice..” “He was buried the next morning...in the Cantonment Cemetary. I carried one corner of the coffin. I remember that the sun shone and that I thought how odd it was that I should be helping to bury my father, to whom only the day before I had been reading the war news out of the morning paper. He was thirty-nine at the time of his death.” [quotes from E’s ‘Journal’ written between 1939 and 1942] |
| 1921 Jan | E.starts teaching at Church School in Mandalay then to family in Rangoon |
| 1922 July 1 | Biddie marries Maxwell Staniforth at Hayling Is |
| 1923 | Edith & Monty seperate |
| 1925 April | E.to Calcutta to join “The Statesman” |
| 1928 April 4 | Rosamund Staniforth born |
| 1929 October | E.marries Elma Glassup (Bonnie) in Calcutta |
| 1933 |
“She came to me as an equal. I was 31 unsatisfactorily married with a consciousness of intellectual gifts that were wasting in a society I hated and despised...I sneered..inevitably.. I posed. But Daphne cut through all these barbed-wire entanglements that surrounded me..[we] wanted to be with each other always.” “The obstacles seemed so great and we were seperated, that was the worst to bear, the seperation.” “We had made a decision, she and I, and it was a decision that had to be carried out in the face of all obstacles...It never occured to either of us to think of wavering.” “When I think of that time now[Sept [text missing?] 1861 Montague Stephens born
1871 Edith Bailey born
1892 MS @Jersey&Gorey
1894/5 MS @Rio/Montevideo/Belem
1896 Montague Stephens marries Edith in Falkland Is.
1896-99 M&E@Canobie Canada
Maurice born
1899 Feb 2 Biddie born in Esquimault BC
1902 Sept 30 Eric Rayner born Thaton Burma
Clive born (?)
1903 Oct 27 Phyllis born at Saltash Cornwall
1905 Stephens’@Bermuda
1909 July 23 Daphne born Whitchurch Tavistock Devon
1918 October E.’s father dies (Stella Lodge 49th.St.Rangoon)
“When I saw him I had a shock. I hadn’t seen him since the previous Christmas holidays when I had made a bullock-cart trip with him to Shwegyin, to which he had just been posted - our last cart-trip together...now he was gaunt with a wasted smile and a weak voice..”
“He was buried the next morning...in the Cantonment Cemetary. I carried one corner of the coffin. I remember that the sun shone and that I thought how odd it was that I should be helping to bury my father, to whom only the day before I had been reading the war news out of the morning paper. He was thirty-nine at the time of his death.” [quotes from E’s ‘Journal’ written between 1939 and 1942]
1921 Jan E.starts teaching at Church School in Mandalay
then to family in Rangoon
1922 July 1 Biddie marries Maxwell Staniforth at Hayling Is
1923 Edith & Monty seperate
1925 April E.to Calcutta to join “The Statesman”
1928 April 4 Rosamund Staniforth born
1929 October E.marries Elma Glassup (Bonnie) in Calcutta
1933 May E.to England(with Bonnie)
July 28 Phyllis marries E.P.Appleby in Trincomali
Sept.16 D. to Colombo(with Elizabeth Kenning to visit her mother)
E. to Calcutta - both on board B&I Domala
“The people on board were the usual crowd on any India-bound ship - sahibs and memsahibs, with a sprinkling of sahibs and memsahibs to- be, people going out for the first time, to jobs or to be married. It was deadening, till IO met Daphne. We usesd to sit near each other on the deck, without speaking...then one day when we were in the Red Sea I spoke to her and after that we were always together...we knew each other for ten days on that ship and at the end of that time we had decided that we had to make a new life together.”
“She came to me as an equal. I was 31 unsatisfactorily married with a consciousness of intellectual gifts that were wasting in a society I hated and despised...I sneered..inevitably.. I posed. But Daphne cut through all these barbed-wire entanglements that surrounded me..[we] wanted to be with each other always.”
“The obstacles seemed so great and we were seperated, that was the worst to bear, the seperation.”
“We had made a decision, she and I, and it was a decision that had to be carried out in the face of all obstacles...It never occured to either of us to think of wavering.”
“When I think of that time now[Sept 17th.’39]my feelings are a mixture of wonder and fear and gladness...”
[D in a letter to Marjorie]
Commisioner’s House Trincomali Oct 1933
On the top verandah..it is fairly cool & undisturbed, though the people going by along the road are rather distracting. I can see the sea, a placid whitish blue & a hot strip of sand. The house is hemmed in by trees & mother has a regular jungle of shrubs in pots. I have had a bathe this morning before breakfast & Elizabeth has been sketching. She is very brave: the other day we went to the market with Augustine the cook & she started sketching. The whole market rose as one man & clustered round at her elbow! Augustine came along & let out a few oaths & the crowd thinned a bit.......We dined on board the Colombo their last night. Elizabeth & I feel like film stars trailing up & down companion-ways & in & out of launches with masses of handsome(?) white clad officers saluting all over the place!
1934 Jan. D.returns UK [March 6 Craven Hill Gdns?]
July 22 E.returns UK on the Comorin from Bombay
arr.Portsmouth via Marseilles
(in his journal he recalls: July 22. Then “The Orchard” Hotel nr. Marble Arch for 6 days, “How wonderful London was that July!” Then at the end of the month to DH’s cottage at Vron).
April Edith&Solomon take house in Bromley
May 26 Claire Appleby born
June 25 Applebys to Woodcote Close Epsom
Sept 28 D&E retn London Sydney St?
1935 Easter-June D&E @ ‘Cornerways’ Thorns Beach
(Easter Ros&Bids visit)
by August D&E @ ‘Ivyroost’ East Boldre
Sept Bids&Max&Ros at ‘Foundry Cottage’ Haslemere
December 4 Benedick born in East Boldre
1936 Aug 19 Daphne & Eric Rayner married @Wandsworth Registery office
“But the day we took as our wedding day is the 22 July 1934 when our new life began..”
August 29 James Appleby born
[Oct Dulcee&Irene Rayner arr.UK from Rangoon]
Oct D&E&B @ KingswoodRuffs,Greyshot nr.Hindhead
1937 [Jan 1 D&I take Lavender Cottage]
Sept 25 D&E&B @ 20 Greville Place
1938 B&M&Ros @ The Potteries Graffham nr.Petworth
Sept 23 Phyl,Ambrose&James to Colombo
Oct 9 Clare Appleby dies
1939 D&E&B @ Upper Park Rd
March 2 Applebys retn UK
Sept 1 Ben evacuated to Timsbury nr.Bath
Sept 3 WW2 declared
“I had visualised swarms of bombers, showering death and destruction on London and thought gladly of Benedick safe in SDomerset. We had waited in the hall downstairs, the apprehension in our hearts. A lorry driver had stopped his lorry in the street outside and came in to shelter in the hall. He had said, ‘I didn’t think Hitler would start as soon as this’. Later we had walked across Hampstead Heath to Jack Straw’s Castle to catch the bus, feeling very self-conscious with our new gas-masks in their cardboard boxes slung across our shoulders. Hampstead Heath had looked much as it had always looked on a Sunday. The anti-aircraft guns, the allotments, the rubble of London’s bombed buildings filling the sandpits by the Spaniard’s Road were yet to come.”
November Ben back to London then to
December Aspley Guise
1940 June D&E&B @Liverpool,Croxteth Grove,Sefton Park.
then D&B @Vron “that was a wonderful summer, it was difficult to imagine the horror of the war.But the army had taken over part of the New Brighton beach, there were hundreds of French sailors in Liverpool’s streets looking a bit forlorn; there were tank barriers and barbed wire on the roads to Chester and into Wales and later in the streets of Liverpool itself, round the docks and the Mersey Tunnel entrance. We went to a fire station to hear a short lecture on fire bombs and to learn how to use a stirrup pump. (Benedick liked working the hose!) One night the sirens went and we sat in the cellar of the house - Benedick enjoyed that too! - feeling a little tense and helpless and nnot knowing quite what to expect. A plane droned somewhere and we waited...and then the sirens sounded the all-clear and we went to bed. Yes, the sun shone that summer on the yet unmarked face of England. The force that had smashed the face of Europe was gathering for the crowning blow..but we did not know...the vicious strength of that blow nor the inadequacy of our own strength. How could we? The sun had shone on England so long and we were warm with it, drugged. Our awakening was to come.”(April 25 1942)
August D&E&B @Canfield Gardens, Finchley Road
Sept 6th. move to 15 Cannon Place, Hampstead.
“The next day the Germans flew up the Thames and set the London docks ablaze...There were sometimes vapour trails patterning the London sky, and once or twice we stood in the streets and watched British fighters flying regimented and purposeful in the autumn sunlight.”
Staniforths @Bognor Regis
1942 Oct 22 Annabel Rayner born
Staniforths @Flimwell
November Rayners move to Well Walk Hampstead
1943 Maurice‘Molly’Stephens dies
James to Cleeve Crt prep-school Malvern Wells
1945 Rosamund @Well Walk
Sept Ben to PR at Gorehambury St Albans
1946 Sept 22 Rosalind Rayner born
Staniforths @Bexhill
1947 Feb10 Applebys move to ‘Windyridge’ Reigate
1948 Feb 28 Linda Appleby born
1949 Sept Ben to Bryanston
James to Eastbourne College
1950 Dec 10 Edith Grundy dies at Redhill
Dec 19 Montague Stephens dies at Bexhill
1951 Staniforths @Sixpenny Handley
July 28 Rosamund marries Tony Du Cane
1954 March 12 Leslie DuCane born at Forest Cottage Pilley Bailey
May 6 Ben starts National Service
1955 May E to BBC
June B to BAOR
Sept 29 James starts NS (RASC)
1956 May Ben de-mobbed
Aug 7 Jane DuCane born at Pilley Bailey
1957 Sept James de-mobbed
Oct Ben to Technicolor
Rosalind to Sth.Hampstead High School
1958 May 29 Daphne to Italy with Elizabeth Kenning
B. to Worldwide(Clapham)
1959 & Summer of the 17th.Doll
1960 James to Philippines
March 26 Louise DuCane born at Pilley Bailey
1961 [Jan 14 Carol Corbett to Well Walk]
Aug 26 James Appleby & Esther married in Manila
Linda Appleby dies
1962 June 29 E&P move to ‘West Point’ Reigate Hill
1963 July B to Lonsdale Sq. Islington
1964 Sept.21 Ben Rayner marries Kate Leahy at St.Mary’s Lewisham
Feb Aaron born to AR
1965 April 30 Emma born to RR
1966 Sept 3 Rosalind marries Christopher McClure at Christ Church Hampstead
Rosalind & Chris to Compagne Gdns
James&Esther rtn UK - Horley Surrey
1967 D&E move to Maze Hill Greenwich
1968 B&K ‘on location’ in Paris
R&C to Knockholt
1969 June 29 Vanessa McCure born
August B&K to Rippingale
James starts at British Olivetti
1970 Jan R,C&V move to Plumstead
March 25 Biddie dies at ‘Greenacre’ Pilley Bailey
May 8 D&E to Corby Glen
1971 Feb 17 Rachel McClure born
May 26 Cassius Rayner born
August B&K&C to 4 Kingswood Rd Shortlands
Dec ? Bel to Spitalfields
1972 Jan 6 Vanessa Appleby born
1973 B&K&C to South Street Greenwich
1974 J,E & V move to Pound Hill Crawley
1975 June 16 Charlotte Rayner born
October 10 E’s mother Irene dies in Cricklewood
Oct/Nov (B @120 Palace Rd.Tulse Hill)
James starts at Southern Water
1976 July 17 Leslie DuCane marries Alison Carus at Harborne nr Birmingham
August 9 D&E move to Spitalfields
Sept 10 Eric Rayner dies (London)
D.writes in her diary - brief & to-the-point as usual:
“SAT 18 left 7.30am for E Boldre, scattered the ashes on moor opposite Ivyroost
Back by 6”
October 18 Daphne moves to Ramsgate (50 Addington St)
B&K divorce
Kate,C&C to Hastings
1977 B.to Glenton Rd.
1978 E&P move to ‘Cedar View’ Reigate
R,V&R move to Addington St Ramsgate
1979 James starts at Honeywell Hemel Hempstead
and moves to Caddington nr Luton
Rosalind & Chris divorce
1980 July B starts “Dance Craze”
1981 Feb? B.back to BFCS
1982 May 1 Louise DuCane marries Glen Sutcliffe at Boldre
1983 Annabel marries Daniel Swain @ Limehouse
1984 Ben to Deptford (and “Blue Pearl” bought)
1985 June 25 Daisy born
Dec 26 Max Staniforth dies at Hawkhurst cremated at Tunbridge Wells and buried alongside Biddie at Boldre
R,V&R move to Bradley Rd Ramsgate
1987 July B.leaves BFCS
1988 Jan 20 Daphne dies at Margate
Oct 8 Ambrose Appleby dies
Dec 5 B.starts @Lexington Post
1991 Nov 7 Jane DuCane marries Terence Michael Ryan at Boldre
1995 Jan B.lvs.Lex.Post and moves(partly)to The Gambia
1997 Jan Rosalind moves to Albert Rd Ramsgate
1998 Oct. B.returns to UK
1999 June 8 Esther dies
2000 August 8 Phyllis dies
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