Dorothea (Big Dora) Frances Alan Stevenson 1850 - 1931
Dorothea (Big Dora) Frances Alan Stevenson , she became R.C. Converts to Rome : a biographical list of the more notable converts to the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom during the last sixty years" W.GORDON GORMAN. Fowke, Mrs Dora, widow of Richardson Fowke, of Singapore. (1904) Dedicated to her: To D.F. I watched you saunder down the sand: Serene and large, the golden weather Flowed radiant round your peacock feather, And glistened from your jewelled hand. Your tawny hair, turned strand on strand And bound with blue ribands together, Streaked the rough tartan, green like heather, That round your lissome shoulder spanned. Your grace was quick my sense to seize: The quaint looped hat, the twisted tresses, The close-drawn scarf, and under these The flowing, flapping draperies-- My thought an outline still caresses, Enchanting, comic, Japanese! From Bric-a-Brac, a series of poems written between 1877 and 1888 By William Ernest Henley. This one is thought to have been written at Margate. Of Private means (1911). There is record of Fowke Mrs. Dorothea as a passenegr bound for Bombay, married aged 47 ((10 years out), country of last residence England, Country of intended residence India, travelling 1st class on the Kashmir P&OSN & Co.) dep. 1st October 1920 from the Port of London. Also with her was Veronica (Fowke?) aged 5.
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Sources
Census
- 1851 census (lodger - 55 Bridge of Allan, Logie, Perths., , Scotland)
- 1861 census (lodger - Yeats, Portland, Dorset, , England)
- 1871 census (daughter - Eastfield House, Duddingston, Midlothian, , Scotland)
- 1901 census (head of household - 16 Flanders Rd., Chiswick, London, , , England)
- 1911 census (boarder -
No address )
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Timeline
| 5th Jun 1850 | Born (birth) Edinburgh, Scotland | | 31st Mar 1851 | Lodger in 1851 census (census) Logie, Perths., Scotland | | 1861 | Lodger in 1861 census (census) Portland, Dorset, England | | 1871 | Daughter in 1871 census (census) Duddingston, Midlothian, Scotland | | 20th Sep 1876 | Married Richardson William Fowke
(Bird , Stevenson , Dahl ) 1847 - 1899 (marriage) Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) | | 24th Aug 1893 | MARR/ROLE WITN Ootacamund, Madras, India | | Sep 1893 | Became an heir of Robert Lewis (Louis) Balfour Stevenson
(Van de Grift ) 1850 - 1894 (will) | | 1897 | Divorced Richardson William Fowke
(Bird , Stevenson , Dahl ) 1847 - 1899 (divorce) | | 31st Mar 1901 | Head of household in 1901 census (census) London, England | | 2nd Apr 1911 | Boarder in 1911 census (census) Frensham, Surrey, England | | 19th Feb 1931 | Died (death) Brussels, Belgium |
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