 1993 - (31 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
Generation: 3
| 5. |  Vivien Ann Hayes MILLS was born on 15 Jan 1944 in The Grove Nursing Home, Barton on Sea (daughter of Captain Vivian Hayes MILLS and Anne Deidre FORBES-ROBERTSON); died on 6 Jan 2012. Other Events and Attributes:
- Address: From 1944 to; Address:
Hatch Farm, New Milton, Hampshire
- Address: 1965; Address:
110, Lauderdale Mansions, Maida Vale, W9
Notes:
Died:
Funeral service at Hereford Crematorium, 14th Jan 2012
Notes:
Married:
Registration district: Paddington
County: London
Year of registration: 1964
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name Mills
Volume no: 5D
Page no: 365
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Generation: 4
| 8. | Norman Frederick GRAVILLE was born on 30 May 1905 in Margate, Kent; was christened on 17 Jul 1905 in St. John's Presbyterian Church, Tottenham (son of Frederick GRAVILLE and Emily GRAY); died in 1978 in Uckfield, Sussex. Other Events and Attributes:
- Census: 1911, 93, High St. Margate
- Occupation: 1921, New York; Merchant Seaman, 16 years old. Apprenticed on the SS Kabinga, a cargo ship. London and Leith to New York service.
- Occupation: 1922
Notes:
Birth:
Registration district: Thanet
County: Kent
Year of registration: 1905
Quarter of registration: Apr-May-Jun
Q3 Volume no: 2A Page no: 1040
Norman married Edna POINTON in 1928. Edna was born about 1905; died in 1967 in Chichester. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 9. | Edna POINTON was born about 1905; died in 1967 in Chichester. Notes:
Married:
Registration district: Stoke on Trent
County: Staffordshire
Year of registration: 1928
Quarter of registration: Apr-May-Jun
Spouse's last name Pointon
Volume no: 6B Page no: 437
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| 10. |  Captain Vivian Hayes MILLS was born on 1 Jan 1911 in Forte Villas, Cork, Ireland (son of Colonel James Jesse MILLS, O.B.E. - C.B.E. and Maud Mary HAYES); died on 22 Dec 1976 in Lauderdale Road, Paddington, London; was buried in Richmond Cemetery. Other Events and Attributes:
- School Attendance: St. George's College, Weybridge; Private Roman Catholic School
- Name: to George when he went to school
- Occupation: 1941; Captain, Essex Regiment
- Occupation: 1959; Production Manager in the film industry.
He worked on the 1959 film "Tiger Bay" starring John Mills & Hailey Mills (no relation)
Notes:
In Canada George contracted what they thought was flu, but later in Malta, while he was swimming they noticed that there was an oddity about his legs. On return to England JJ took George to a surgeon in Harley Street who diagnosed Polio. George was given two alternatives - surgery or leave things alone. George opted for the latter.
Later on George served as a Commando.
Birth:
Description: as his father was stationed at Haulbowline, Cork
Died:
Dec Q 1976 14 1283 Paddington
Vivian married Anne Deidre FORBES-ROBERTSON on 9 Sep 1939 in Gretna Green. Anne (daughter of Frank FORBES-ROBERTSON and Honoria Ellen MCDERMOTT) was born on 28 Dec 1920 in 174, Lloyd Street, Mosside, Manchester; died on 14 Nov 2009. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 11. |  Anne Deidre FORBES-ROBERTSON was born on 28 Dec 1920 in 174, Lloyd Street, Mosside, Manchester (daughter of Frank FORBES-ROBERTSON and Honoria Ellen MCDERMOTT); died on 14 Nov 2009. Other Events and Attributes:
- Cremated: 27 Nov 2009, Worthing Crematorium
Notes:
Ann was educated in Switzerland. As a result of being able to speak fluent German, in 1939 she got a job in Berlin with the War Office. She was on the last train out of Berlin at the outbreak of war.
Cremated:
Our mother, who was born in Manchester in 1920, was schooled in Belgium and Switzerland. Her parents divorced when she was only four and her mother, a successful actor's agent, had the means and sufficient lack of interest in her six year -old daughter, to wave her off on the Victoria Station/Ostend boat train (a farewell kiss would have been an emotional exaggeration!)
She had been to two boarding schools in England before going to Belgium but she wasn't prepared for a 'total immersion' in French -she was only allowed to speak English on Thursdays. She never took to the gruelling school life in the outbacks of Antwerp and finally managed to persuade her mother, who she saw mercifully little of, to have her moved to St Gallen in Switzerland: There, after having spent seven years speaking French, she was thrown into a Swiss German environment - and adored it. Rigorous morning classes were followed by skiing in winter and long mountain hikes in spring and autumn. Her close friend at the time, Maribel Maranon, daughter of a well known Spanish doctor, had to return suddenly to Madrid at the outbreak of the Spanish civil war.
Ann's command of German was such that she had no difficulty in finding work in Berlin once she left school. She worked in the passport office in The British Embassy until the outbreak of war and acquired a great collection of Jazz 78r.p.m's; exchanging coffee, received via diplomatic circles, for early Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Paul Robeson, etc, records - lots of people were only too happy to get rid of 'black' music during the Nazi era, in exchange for a beverage which had become very scarce. Her eclectic musical tastes found her in the Berlin Concert Hall where, on two occasions she almost rubbed shoulders with 'an insignificant dwarf of a man whose clothes, like his ideas, were too big for him' -Adolf Hitler.
Her boss at the B.E. was an affable, middle-aged gentleman by the name of Frank Foley who, she then thought, spoke and understood little, if any, German. Great was her surprise when she learnt, less than ten years ago, that not only had her charming boss been virtually bi-lingual but he had also been responsible for saving countless Jews. (see:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foley )
After the war and once her three children were in their teens, she started working with a charming and dynamic couple who had recently set up the International House Language School in Shaftesbury Avenue -a stone's throw from Piccadilly Circus. A long and fruitful working and social relationship ensued with John and Brita Haycraft during which time Ann ran the accommodation agency for the students and started up her own summer courses for foreign school children in various centres throughout Britain.
In recent years, having moved from London to Shoreham on the coast of West Sussex, Ann had the good fortune to have various 'Guardian Angels' as neighbours, especially her son-in-Iaw's brother and his wife. She wasn't always the easiest person to get on with; she could be autocratic and domineering at times and loved nothing better than a good political discussion (often argument!) Like our father, George, she was a staunch socialist.
Ann was armed with a ready, and often wicked, wit: - on answering the phone to a double glazing salesman for the third time in the same week, anxious to sell her his wares, she said that she would consult her husband who had died 25 years before, but still gave her good advice - she never heard another word!
She will be missed by those 8 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren who she had more empathy with than her own mother had ever had with her and, of course, by her two children.
Vivien and Michael
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