Wednesday, August 04, 2021

honore bowlby-gledhill

Firstly, will the real Mrs Honore Bowlby-Gledhill please stand up. 
Oakland Tribune 30 October 1933 p. 3

Spokane Spokesman-Review 22 November 1933 p. 3
San Berdanino County Sun 18 November 1933 p. 1

Oakland Tribune, 8 January 1934, p. 4

Secondly, yes we all know she was born in 1907 in Newfoundland, and that her parents were Alfred Wyndham Paget and Alpina Viti (MacGregor) Paget, and that both her parents died in 1918 within weeks of each other after which she was a Ward in Chancery, whatever that is, and that she was married firstly to Vivian Russell Salvin Bowlby between around 1928 and 1930, then Ralph Gledhill.

And then, as we all know, she was trying to divorce Ralph Gledhill in 1934 and then still trying to divorce him in 1946 and not doing great at it. 

Siskiyou Daily News 15 February 1946 p. 5

But then what happened?! 

Hopefully one day in the next hundred years some random from Sweden (or anywhere else in the world) will let me know. Because I am pretty sure that this blog post will now rise close to the top of the pile in hits if anyone goes looking for Honore Bowlby-Gledhill (talvez alguns de seus filhos octogenerianos no Brasil leiam isso) and it will catch some more up-to-date information. 

(Cool news update 14 August 2021: searching on her maiden name I discovered that on 11 November 1952 she married François Hurault de Vibraye, Comte, and they were divorced in 1957.)

1 comment:

Lewis Shepherd said...

Sweet Bohemia! I do hope you receive an update from Sweden or any other. spot about this fascinating life.

what a relief

 From Farrago 21 March 1958 p. 3. A few weeks later (11 April) Farrago reported that the bas-relief was removed ('and smashed in the pro...