Elinor Mary (Cox) Maclachlan (1870 - 1949)

Born 15 Jul 1870 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of William Martins le Poer Trench — married 17 Apr 1891 (to 1904) in St Michael Cornhill, City of London, England

Wife of Sydney Trench — married 6 Nov 1905 (to 16 Dec 1905) in Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, England

Wife of Ronald Campbell Maclachlan DSO — married 7 Jan 1908 (to 1917) in London, England

Died 9 Oct 1949 at age 79 in Cherrywell Cottage, Upper Clatford, Andover, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Elinor was born in 1870. She was the daughter of Dr. James Charles Cox and Margaret Wharton McClellan.

England and Wales Census, 1891: Recorded in the household of her sister Lady Millicent Bertin in Uffington, Lincolnshire, England. Aged 20 and single. Also in the household was William Le Poer Trench.

At the age of 20 she married 24 year old William Martins Le Poer Trench (son of Colonel William Le Poer Trench and Harriet Maria Georgina Martins) on 17 April 1891 at St Michael Cornhill, City of London, England, by licence. The witnesses were Charles James Blomfield and Matthew Fisher.

They had one daughter, Beth. Her husband William died in 1904.

She married, secondly, Hon. Sydney Trench (the son of Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench and Lady Anne Le Poer Trench) on 6 November 1905 at Shipston On Stour, Warwickshire, England^[1].

Sadly her husband passed away soon after his marriage, on 16 December 1905 after contracting Pneumonia.

Her third marriage was to Brig.-Gen. Ronald Campbell Maclachlan on 7 January 1908 at St. George Hanover Square, London, England^[2].

They had no children together.

In 1911 she was living with her husband Ronald, 9 year old daughter Beth Le Pour Trench and six servants in Elmthorpe Pile Road, Cowley, Oxon Oxfordshire, England. She was aged 39.

Her husband Ronald died in 1917, killed in action in the 1st World War.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register she was recorded in the household of Elsie Batt at St Vincent, Anna Valley, Andover, Hampshire.^[3]

Occupation: Private Means

She died in 1949 at the age of about 79^[4]. Her will was proved on 17 March 1950 at London to Philip Beaumont Frere, solicitor attorney of Richard Elles Solly Flood. Effects: £31132 13s. 10d.

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:267T-JB1 : 13 December 2014), Sydney Trench, 1905; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,”
2. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DXR-Q9Y : 13 December 2014), Elinor Mary Trench, 1908; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1908, quarter 1, vol. 1A, p. 629, St. George Hanover Square, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
3. ↑ 1939 England and Wales Register for Elinor M Maclachlan The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/2366J. Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. Accessed on ancestry.com, June 2021.
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4. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCS-PV73 : 4 September 2014), Elinor M Maclachlan, 1949; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Andover, Hampshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

• NSW, Australia BDM Historical Birth Records: Registration No: 2045/1870 | Family Name: COX | Given Name(s): ELINOR MARY | Parents: JAMES CHARLES & MARGARET | District: SYDNEY | https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search

• Debrett, John, C. F. J. Hankinson, and Arthur G. M. Hesilrige. Debretts peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage ...: comprises information concerning persons bearing hereditary or courtesy titles, privy councillors, knights, companions of the various orders, and the collateral branches of all peers and baronets. London: Odhams Press, 1947.

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Census Records

• "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WRXX-WT2 : 1 March 2021), Elenor M Cox in household of Montague Lord Bertin, Uffington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Lincolnshire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.