 1965 - (58 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
| 3. |  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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| 4. | 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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| 5. | 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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| 6. |  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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| 7. |  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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| 8. | Frederick GRAVILLE was born about 1875 in Epworth, Lincolnshire (son of Kershaw GRAVEL and Ann E); died in 1940 in Edmonton, Middlesex. Other Events and Attributes:
- Census: 1891, Battle Green, Epworth; Farm Servant
- Census: 1901, Edmonton Union Workhouse, Upper Edmonton; Work House Master's Assistant
- Employment: 22 Sep 1906, Inquest at Edmonton Workhouse; Report in the Derby Daily.
Notes:
Name:
Recorded as Fred Gravil at birth
Frederick + Emily GRAY. Emily was born in 1875 in Edmonton, Middlesex; died in 1968 in Worthing, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 9. | Emily GRAY was born in 1875 in Edmonton, Middlesex; died in 1968 in Worthing, Sussex. Notes:
Married:
Registration district: Edmonton
County: Middlesex
Year of registration: 1902
Quarter of registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Volume no: 3A Page no: 984
Children:
- 4. 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; died in 1978 in Uckfield, Sussex.
- Edgar Maurice GRAVILLE was born on 21 Nov 1908 in Margate, Kent; died in 1976 in Tonbridge, Kent.
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| 12. |  Colonel James Jesse MILLS, O.B.E. - C.B.E. was born on 20 Jan 1878 in 15, Newtown, Ashford, Kent; was christened on 29 Jun 1879 in Kent (son of James MILLS and Sarah (Kate?) IRELAND); died on 8 Feb 1963 in 2 Ethel Road, Broadstairs, CT10 2BE; was buried in Broadstairs. Other Events and Attributes:
- School Attendance: 16 Jun 1884 to 2 Mar 1889, Vicarage Road School, Plumstead
- School Attendance: 25 Feb 1889, Bloomfield Road School, Plumstead
- Address: Between 1937 and 1938; Address:
Bourneside, Gomshall, Surrey
- Retired: 29 Aug 1941
- Address: 1926 - 1945, 17, Arterberry Road, Wimbledon. SW 20; As an Inspector of Ordnance he had a flat in Wimbledon to be able to visit the local factories.
- Employment: After 1945, Wimbledon
Notes:
Original beliefs. Superceded by subsequent research.
He was thought (by William George Mills) to have been a Colonel in the R.E and based at the R.E School, Chatham. From the only known photograph that we had, he appeared to be fairly close in age to his brother Thomas William. Now that we have more pictures of James Jesse it is clear that the photograph was not of him but of his eldest brother Edward Mills.
It turned out that he was 4 years younger and eventually became a Colonel in the R.A.O.C
Ann Mills recalls that JJ's family were with him during his overseas postings.
In France they lived in a chateaux and Vivian (George) was attacked by an alsatian.
Vivian was sent home from Malta with another Army child to a school in Shropshire.
Most of their leave was taken in Ireland with Maud's family. Ann recalls going to a big house in Cashel called Longfield which had been the home of Charles Bianconi (an Italian emigre who was responsible for the beginnings of public transport in Ireland). She describes Bianconi as being Vivian's Uncle. John Bianconi was originally an O'Connell but had his name changed on the wishes of his Grandfather Charles Bianconi.
Whilst JJ was a competent horse rider (he played polo whilst in Gibraltar), Maud was very good, riding side saddle, hunting etc. She was also a keen tennis player.
Birth:
1878 Mar Quarter in WEST ASHFORD Volume 02A Page 718
School Attendance:
Description: Admission No. 3080
London Metropolitan Archives - Microfilm No. XO95 334
Address:
until 1937/8
e-mail from Ann Noyes - Shere & Gomshall Local History Society 19th Nov 2002
Because Shere and Gomshall have such a rich number of old houses most of our records are concerned with them! Bourneside still stands, it is on the main A25 road that runs through Gomshall, opposite the Post Office Stores and the United Reformed chapel. It looks as though it was built in the late 19th century and is now known as 'The Gallery' and sells wine and offers display space for artists in watercolours, ceramic, glass and wood. The site was part of the Gomshall Mill property. In 1965 a bungalow was built on part of the land for the residents of Bourneside, and they moved out of the 'big' house into the bungalow. There is a structure known as 'The Coach House (part of the original Bourneside) which is now the premises of an Antique Restorer who has extended at the back and has recently bought the bungalow. At Shere Museum (Elizabeth Rich. 01483 203245) there is a map of the property, prepared when planning permission was sought for the bungalow. I have so far found no reference to Col. James Jesse Mills OBE Copies of the Electoral Roll on microfiche can be consulted at Surrey History Centre, Woking, 01483 594594. This would confirm the years of his residence
There is a story that in World War 2, Bournside was used as a girls' school called Braemar High School for Girls, but I have not seen evidence of this, and I cannot think that it was big enough for that.
Best wishes Ann Noyes
e-mail to Ann Noyes - Nov 20th 2002
My father and I visited the Surrey History Centre today to view the
Electoral Registers. We found our relative James Jesse Mills at Bourneside
in 1937 together with his wife Maud Mary (up to today we didn't know he was
married).
Records for 1939 to 1944 don't exist but in March 1945 Bourneside was
occupied by the Braemar High School and by 1950 the school had moved to The
Croft.
In 1950 Bourneside was occupied by Richard and Prudence Jequier.
Ann recalls that after the War ended and George came back from Burma, the family were told that Bourneside was to be requisitioned and that the school refused to move.
Retired:
from Regular Army
Employment:
2nd WW Employed by War Office as Inspector of factories producing munitions.
He had a flat in Kensington
Died:
FreeFormatDate:witnessed by Ann Mills - daughter in law
Description: Cardio-renal failure, pneumonia and Parkinsonism
James married Maud Mary HAYES on 15 Mar 1910 (Licence) in Woolwich Register Office. Maud (daughter of Thomas Patrick HAYES, Junior and Helen Mary BURKE) was born on 14 Oct 1880 in 4, Proby Square, Blackrock, Dublin; died on 21 Jan 1969 in Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke; was buried in Broadstairs. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 13. |  Maud Mary HAYES was born on 14 Oct 1880 in 4, Proby Square, Blackrock, Dublin (daughter of Thomas Patrick HAYES, Junior and Helen Mary BURKE); died on 21 Jan 1969 in Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke; was buried in Broadstairs. Other Events and Attributes:
- Address: 1969; Address:
Maryfield (Convent) Residential Home, London Road, Hook, Hampshi
Notes:
In the 1937 Electoral Register at Gomshall she is listed as Maud Mary
According to Vivien, While Maud was in the nursing home at Maryfield she accused the staff of stealing things.
Address:
Description: at the time of her death
Died:
Description: Pneumonia, Cerebral thrombosis & Senility
Notes:
Married:
Witnessed by Annie Wynn and Edward Mills
Description: from beginning of WW2
Description: (from Telephone Directories)
Address found in the Deeds to 2 Ethel Road.
The house was bought on the 16th April 1959 in the name of Maud Mary Mills and sold on 22nd June 1959 to her son Vivian. The price for both sales was £1350. On James Jesse's death the house was sold for £3400 (21st May 1963)
Children:
- 6. Captain Vivian Hayes MILLS was born on 1 Jan 1911 in Forte Villas, Cork, Ireland; died on 22 Dec 1976 in Lauderdale Road, Paddington, London; was buried in Richmond Cemetery.
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