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Name | Thelma Elizabeth PATTINSON [98] | Birth | Female; 1912 | Death | 1994, age about 82 | Residence | UK |
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Name | Robin Edmund BROOKE SUMNER [98] | Birth | Male; 23 March 1909; Johannesburg, South Africa | Death | 3 July 1956, age 47 | Burial | Ashes at St Martin's Church, Bergvliet, South Africa | Education | 1918+: Diocesan Preparatory College (Bishops) in Cape Town 1923+: Dover College, Dover, Kent UK | Occupation | Accountant for Mitchell Cotts, Johannesburg, South Africa Accountant for Shell Oil, Rhodesia, later Shell Oil, Capetown, South Africa | Military | WWII: Tank Commander in the Armoured Corps | Residence | UK | Father | Jocelin Brooke SUMNER (1876 - 1944) | Mother | Nellie UPTON (1885 - ) |
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Marriage |
18 Dec 1935, Bulawayo, Rhodesia [98] |
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Children: | Living children not displayed | | | |
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Notes for Robin Edmund BROOKE SUMNER Why did this generation double the surname? The Brooke and Sumner
connection is, I believe, an administrative error. Jocelin Brooke SUMNER
and my grandmother Nellie UPTON were divorced in 1916 after the birth of
my father, Robin Edmund, in 1909, in Johannesburg South Africa. The
divorce notice gives Jocelin's surname as BROOKE SUMNER (he had left South
Africa) and this, in a nutshell, is how the name came about. [98]
During September 1922, his father, together with his mother and step-
father, travelled to England on the
Balmoral Castle presumably to take Robin to
Dover
College , Kent which he attended from 1923. [98]
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Sources 98. | Email, Brian Brooke-Sumner, 16 December 2013 |
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