Eileen Alice (James) Ferguson (1910)

Born 1910 in Marylebone, Westminster, London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Colin Cokayne-Frith — married 1931 in St. George Hanover Square, London, England

Biography

Birth and Parentage

Eileen Alice James was the elder daughter of Captain George Millais James, ("The Buffs"), and Hylda Madeleine (née Heath) of Oxendon Hall, Market Harbrough,^[1][2]and the great granddaughter of Pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir John Everett Millais, R.A. She was christened at Newbold Pacey, Warwickshire, on 12 August 1910.

She had a younger sister named Daphne Millais.

At the time of the 1911 census, the family were living in Cove, Hampshire, England. ^[3]

Her father was killed in action, in the First World War, in Ypres, Belgium, on 3 November 1914, and her mother remarried, on 27 June 1918 to Major Cecil Robert Bates.

Marriage

Eileen married, firstly, at St. George Hanover Square, London, in April 1931, Captain Colin Cokayne-Frith, ^[4]cricketer, son of Lieut.-Col. R.C. Cokayne-Frith, and Mrs Geoffrey Peto, of Kilmeston, Alresford, Hants. ^[1]

Her step-father died suddenly while salmon fishing on 5 March 1935, and Eileen and her husband attended the funeral three days later.^[5]

She and Captain Cokayne-Firth had one daughter, Penelope, born in 1936, before her husband, by then, Major Cokayne-Frith, was killed in action at the Battle of Asse, Belgium on 18 May 1940. ^[6]

She married, secondly, in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, in the first quarter of 1944, Angus A. Ferguson.^[7]

Death

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} British Newspaper Archive. The Tatler - Wednesday 10 September 1930. Retrieved from the BNA (Here;) Accessed 18 Apr 2023.
2. ↑ freeBMD Births Sep 1910 St.Geo. H. Sq. 1a 390 JAMES Eileen Alice
3. ↑ Eileen Alice James in household of George Millais James, Cove, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. England and Wales Census, 1911. FamilySearch Online Database, citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 20 Apr 2023.
4. ↑ Eileen A James and null, 1931 in England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005. FamilySearch Online Database, citing 1931, quarter 2, vol. 1A, p. 1042, St. George Hanover Square, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 20 Apr 2023.
5. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Leicester Daily Mercury - Saturday 09 March 1935. Retrieved from the BNA (Here;) Accessed 18 Apr 2023.
6. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Newcastle Evening Chronicle., Thursday 04 October 1984. Retrieved from the BNA (Here;) Accessed 20 Apr 2023.
7. ↑ Eileen A Cokayne-Frith and null, 1944 in England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005. FamilySearch Online Database, citing 1944, quarter 1, vol. 3B, p. 230, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 20 Apr 2023.