Genealogy Chat

Yes - thank you malyon. I have the image of it from Ancestry's Bexley parish records

this is her parents marriage


Marriages Jun 1909 (>99%)

SINCLAIR George Donald Dartford 2a 1146 Scan available - click to view

TOON Annie Maud Dartford 2a 1146

Thank you ArgyllGran. That’s really useful.

I had found an incoming passenger list in 1957 for a Robert Leverington with the same dob as the DC, travelling with a Mrs Winifred Leverington dob 24 Sep 1909. Their presumed place of work in Sutton, Surrey was the destination address.
It appears Robert H Leverington married her in 1947.
There’s a further marriage in Devon in 1970 – can’t spot a son in a reasonable time frame, with the same name, regardless of the mmn.

Without access to Aylesbury ER, it’s almost impossible to find out the first name for Mr Holder, if there was one. Mabel was living alone in Welling Kent showing 2002-2006 on the ER, with occupancy dating back to about 1991.

Oh well – one of life’s little mysteries!

Thank you for your help.

"Notice is hereby given, that by a Deed Poll dated the 5th day of October 1961, I, Mabel Lilian Sinclair-Holder, of 194 Churchill Avenue, Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, in the county of Buckingham, feme sole [??], a citizen of the United Kingdom by birth, renounced and abandoned the surname of Leverington.
Dated the 6th day of December 1961.
Messrs Victor Mishcon & Co, 125 High Holborn, London WC1, solicitors for the said Mabel Lilian Sinclair-Holder"

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42533/supplement/8926/data.pdf

As there wasn't a burial/cremation under Leverington, tried Sinclair.

Sinclair-Holder, Mabel Lillian
Cremated on : 05 December 2006
 recorded at:   Eltham Crematorium (Greenwich)
 date of death   14 November 2006 

Might spring for that one!

I can only go by online records, but see no reason why she'd be known as Holder as a child. Her mother's death was reg as Sinclair.

May be separation and co-habitation was a reason? The obvious answer would be to buy the DC to see if the informant was related, but she's a fairly distant ancestor.

Thank you for your thoughts.

There is this death (although in a different area so not sure if it's the right one):-

First name(s) ROBERT HARRY
Last name LEVERINGTON
Gender Male
Birth day 24
Birth month 5
Birth year 1908
Age -
Death quarter 2
Death year 1991
District EXETER
Register number 491
County Devon
Volume 21
Page 1228
Country England

Perhaps Mabel reverted to her maiden name after his death (or did they divorce?)

Was she known as both Sinclair and Holder when she was younger?

Perhaps whoever registered the death did not know which name she preferred to be known by so registered in all three names to be on the safe side.

Can't think of anything else really.

Kath. x

She was born Mabel Lillian Sinclair

Baptism
Mabel Lilian Sinclair
Birth Date: 14 May 1915
Baptism Date: 13 Apr 1916
Baptism Place: Belvedere, Kent, England
Parish as it Appears: Belvedere
Chapelry: All Saints
Father: Annie Maud Sinclair
Mother: George Donald Sinclair

Married Robert Harry Leverington
Mabel L Sinclair
Spouse Surname: Leverington
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1935
Registration district: Windsor
Inferred County: Berkshire
Volume Number: 2c
Page Number: 1331

Death
Mabel Lillian Leverington
Birth Date: 14 May 1915
Date of Registration: Nov 2006
Age at Death: 91
Registration district: Bexley
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: -1
Page: -1
Register Number: A44B
District and Subdistrict: 220/1B
Entry Number: 273

But there are two other entries with the same reference numbers!

Name: Mabel Lillian Sinclair
Birth Date: 14 May 1915
Date of Registration: Nov 2006
Age at Death: 91
Registration district: Bexley
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: -1
Page: -1
Register Number: A44B
District and Subdistrict: 220/1B
Entry Number: 273

Name: Mabel Lillian Sinclair-holder
Birth Date: 14 May 1915
Date of Registration: Nov 2006
Age at Death: 91
Registration district: Bexley
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: -1
Page: -1
Register Number: A44B
District and Subdistrict: 220/1B
Entry Number: 273

Haven't as yet checked what became of Robert + OH wants the PC

Back later. Thanks