Norman Forbes ROBERTSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Possessions: From 1900 to, Stocks Mill, Wittersham
• Address: 1901; Address:
  5, Old Bond Street, London
• Obituary: 30 Sep 1932

Notes:

Norman Forbes-Robertson was the son of John Forbes-Robertson (1822-1903) and one of the 11 siblings of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. He was also a notable actor and a friend of Ellen Terry, Oscar Wilde, Edward Elgar and Henry Irving. Together with Bram Stoker, he helped to organize Irving's funeral; a large body of letters connected with this event still exist. Forbes-Robertson was a prominent member of London's exclusive Garrick Club.

See:-
Scrimgeour's Small Scribbling Diary, 1914-1916
Page 101 - 102 - November 1914
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xn_MHtbe8swC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=norman+forbes-robertson&source=bl&ots=IekemOmQey&sig=AIqD7aE0O8yZ4r2R-pJ-NNWEa9M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_iNDbstbJAhXI1xoKHVyPBss4ChDoAQgzMAU#v=onepage&q=norman%20forbes-robertson&f=false

Scrimgeour notes 5 children, but Frank was born years before Norman's marriage to Louisa Wilson.

Birth:
Dec Q 1858 1b 194 Islington

Possessions:
STOCKS MILL, WITTERSHAM

This large white weatherboarded post mill on its single-storey tarred brick roundhouse, is the largest postmill in Kent. Though originally carrying common sweeps, four single-shuttered spring sets had been in use for most of its life, The mill is winded by a tail-pole and talthur and never had a fantail. It drove two pairs of stones overdrift, one each at breast and tail respectively. Its centre post is one of the stoutest to be seen on any mill. It stood on six foot high brick piers.

The mill was built in 1781 and there is a date carved on the post "RV 1781", though this may possibly record the date of its removal as some think it started life at a previous site. The mill stopped work in 1900 and both the mill and the nearby Tudor-style millhouse were purchased by the Edwardian actor, Norman Forbes-Robertson. He took a keen interest in the mill and kept it in good order and well repaired during his ownership.

However, the mill still needed extensive repairs by 1958 when new sweeps were fitted; more repairs were needed again in 1968. The mill was purchased by Kent County Council who undertook major restoration in 1980, fittingnew sweeps and repairing and repaintingthe woodwork. The mill has been firmly anchored by the tail-pole and massive steps; though the sweeps are shutter-less, they are turned annually through 90degrees to relieve strain. Nearly all the machinery has been dispersed.

The mill is open to the public by the "Friends of Stocks Mill" on summer Sunday afternoons.

LOCATION: Beside the B2082 road, 1 mile north-east of the village of Wittersham.

GRID REF: TQ 132273

Address:
His age was given as 39 in 1901 which puts his birth in 1862. He was actually 43

Family/Spouse: ? ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Norman married Louisa WILSON in 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: 17 Mar 1947; The Times

Notes:

Died:
Mar Q 1947 5C 744 Fulham, London

Frank married Honoria Ellen MCDERMOTT in 1912, and was divorced in 1925. Honoria (daughter of James MCDERMOTT and Honoria GRIFFIN) was born on 15 Jan 1891 in Durham, Sunderland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frank married Emily Sydney THORNTON in 1926 in Marylebone. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
First name(s) NORMAN HENRY
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1903
Birth quarter 1
District ST. GILES
County London
Volume 1B
Page 603

Notes:

Birth:
First name(s) OLIVIA
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1906
Birth quarter 1
District ST. GILES
County London
Volume 1B
Page 581

Olivia married Roderick J FLETCHER in 1929 in Tenterden, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See Wikipedia:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriel_Forbes

Buried:
Headstone

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42146027

Muriel married Sir Ralph David RICHARDSON in 1944 in Chelsea. Ralph was born on 19 Dec 1902; died in Dec 1983; was buried in 1983 in Highgate Cemetery (East) UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Anne married Captain Vivian Hayes MILLS on 9 Sep 1939 in Gretna Green. Vivian (son of Colonel James Jesse MILLS, O.B.E. - C.B.E. and Maud Mary HAYES) 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. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Aveleyman.com
http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=5872

Birth:
First name(s) PETER J B F
Last name ROBERTSON
Birth year 1927
Birth quarter 1
Mother's last name THORNTON
District HAWARDEN
County Flintshire
Country Wales
Volume 11B
Page 313


Died:
First name(s) PETER JOHN B
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Death quarter 4
Death year 1995
District WANDSWORTH
District number 2561C
Register number C98A
Entry number 071
Date of registration mm/yy 1295
County London

Peter married Eveline C ANDERSON in 1949 in Kensington, Middlesex UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Barbara A WILCOX in 1960 in Marylebone. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Aveleyman.com
http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=28269

Birth:
First name(s) JOHN
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1928
Birth quarter 3
Registration month -
Mother's last name THORNTON
District EAST PRESTON
County Sussex
Country England
Volume 2B
Page 459

Notes:

From the IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3054726/

Birth:
First name(s) PEGGIE J
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1930
Birth quarter 1
Mother's last name THORNTON
District BARNET
County Middlesex
Country England
Volume 3A
Page 742

Died:
First name(s) PEGGY JESSIE
Last name DRAKE
Birth day 23
Birth month 12
Birth year 1930
Death quarter 2
Death year 1986
District KENSINGTON & CHELSEA
Register number 586
County London
Volume 13
Page 1732

Peggy married James W DRAKE in 1954 in Bath, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Name: Charles D Richardson
Mother's Maiden Surname: Forbes-robertson
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1945
Registration district: Marylebone
Inferred County: Greater London
Volume Number: 1a
Page Number: 534

Died:
Name: Charles David Richardson
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1945
Date of Registration: Oct 1998
Age at Death: 53
Registration district: Watford
Inferred County: Hertfordshire
Register Number: C45D
District and Subdistrict: 5361C
Entry Number: 283

Probate

RICHARDSON CHARLES DAVID
Date of Probate - 2 February 1999
34016
Date of Death - 20 September 1998
Grant only
Winchester

Buried:
Headstone

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42146168

Other Events and Attributes:

• Address: From 1941 to; Address:
  Hatch Farm, New Milton, Hampshire
• Address: 1965; Address:
  110, Lauderdale Mansions, Maida Vale, W9

Sean married Barbara WHYMARK on 11 Sep 1964 in Teheran, and was divorced in May 1980. Barbara (daughter of Alfred Edward WHYMARK and Alice Maud KING) was born in 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Vivien married Peter Norman GRAVILLE in 1964. Peter (son of Norman Frederick GRAVILLE and Edna POINTON) was born in 1935 in Worthing; died on 7 May 2013. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Address: 1975; Address:
  110, Lauderdale Mansions, Maida Vale, W9

Notes:

Separated from Mayte

Family/Spouse: Mayté DE LA CUESTA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
First name(s) RICHARD M
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1951
Birth quarter 4
Mother's last name ANDERSON
District HAMMERSMITH
County London
Volume 5C
Page 857

Richard married Charlotte SALMON in 1977 in St. Marylebone, London . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
First name(s) LYSBETH A
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1953
Birth quarter 3
Mother's last name ANDERSON
District HAMPSTEAD
County London
Volume 5C
Page 1162

Notes:

Birth:
Name Timothy J Drake
Event Type Birth Registration
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun
Registration Year 1955
Registration District Weymouth
Mother's Maiden Name Forbes-Robertson
Volume 6A Page 817 Line Number 82

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]