Alison Emily Vully de Candole (1903–2002)
This is a Vully de Candole WebSite, for people of that family, and their wives and daughters; each man has his own Page. Curiously, there have (until recently) been VERY few girls born to the Vully de Candole family; from the time of the earliest de Candole records (Jean Gaspard Vully b. 1665) Alison is only the third de Candole girl –
Louisa Mary, b 1811
Corrine, b. 1899
Alison, b. 1903
- until the sudden surge that followed WW2 !
So Alison gets a Page of her own . . .
Alison was born on 15 February 1903 in Samford, Suffolk, the first-born and only daughter of Rev. James Alexander Corry Vully de Candole and Mary Paterson..
Her father - known as Alex - died on 3rd May 1917, when Alison was only 14. With a teen-age daughter and three younger sons (aged from 12 down to 4) , Alison's somewhat dour Scots mother, needed to be strict. Alison was always a "wild child", and wanted to leave home as soon as she could - in those days, 21 was the "age of consent".
A month before her 21st birthday, on 17 January 1924, Alison was married, in Caxton, Cambridgeshire, to Rev. Arthur le Blanc Grant Morris (18 March 1899 – January 1981), then two months short of 25.
As was usual then, she almost immediatley fell pregnant, and her first son,
John Anthony Grant Morris was born on 28 December 1924, his birth registered in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father had been posted. Anthony died in Troy, New York on 7 November 2016
Her second son,
Michael Francis Grant Morris, was born on 26 September 1926, his birth also registered in Mansfield. Michael died in Feb 2000 in Arizona.
Her third and last child,
Adrian Grant Morris, was born on 18 May 1929, but his birth was registered in St. George's, Hanover Square, London. Adrian died on 6 December 2004 in London.
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Alison's husband, and her three boys, are Grant Morris, not Vully de Candole, so for more information you need to look elsewhere.
When she was 90, Alison started to write a Memoir; but Alas ! she only managed to report on her life as far as the outbreak of the Second World War. However, this has been expanded from contributed memories of others - more contributions would be very welcome !
in Q4 1955, in Cardiff, Alison was married secondly, as his second wife, to Patrick John MacDonald (6 March 1910-November 1990).
In Q3 1939 in Penistone, Patrick had married Alice Dundas, and they had had two daughters, Ann V. (Q2 1940 in York) and Mary (Q3 1942 in Penistone).
Alison and Patrick lived in Sussex until Patrick died in 1990, then Alison moved to Brighton, where she died in 2002.
Alison died in 2002 in Brighton.
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