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Hi

I see it's nearly eleven years since your posting.  I wonder if you're still looking for information. 

During the 70s and 80s I used to live a mile from Higher Downs Road in Babbacombe, Torquay at a time when I bought two artworks by Donald Maynard Carter from a gallery in Totnes.  I took one off the wall last night to have another look at it and then, on a whim, decided to do a Google search of his name - that's how I came across your post.

Strangely, I had no idea that I was living so close to him or that he even lived in Devon!

He exhibited between 1934 and 1940.  He was a wood engraver and at one time lived at 44 Arodene Road, Brixton Hill, London.  (1934) Kensington (1940).  Exhibited with the New English Art Club (2), Royal Academy (1) and Royal Society of British Artists (5).  (This was taken from a book at the time of purchasing the prints - sorry I can't tell you more about this).

I attach two images of the wood engravings that I have - not good quality images as they were shot with my phone.  There's some shadowing over them caused by my arm!  The christmas tree image is about 10cm high and the other one 12cm high.

I think they are quite lovely - both very charming and skilled.  Bottom left of each image are his initials - DMC.

I hope this is of some help - I too am a keen genealogist.

Best wishes
Vanessa Griffith

Hi

It's many years since your posting so I can only hope that you are still interested in the St Johnston family.  I have been researching my family for many years now and have recently started looking into my ex-husband's family as he and our sons are interested to know more.  Charles, my former husband, is the grandson of Lilian Louise Crisp (nee St Johnston) (1883 - 1970s).  She was always known as Queenie.   In 1908 in Toxteth Park, Liverpool she married Clifford Boulton Crisp (Abt. 1884 - 06.05.1917) by whom she had two children - Clifford Manning Crisp (b.1910) and Gwyneth Crisp (b.1912).  Clifford married Enid Mary Jones in Surrey in December 1938 and they had three sons - Thomas Crisp (b.1940), Charles Manning Crisp (my former husband, born on 22.01.1945.) and Robert Kendrick Crisp (b.1948).  Clifford died in 1987 and his wife Enid died in 1989 both in Devon.  Gwyneth was born in 1912 and died in the 1980s in Surrey.  She never married and died without issue.

I believe that Lilian Louise St Johnston remarried, maybe twice.  At the end of her life, her husband was an English speaking Portuguese gentleman whom I met many times, but currently, I have been unable to trace his details online.  Lilian may also have married for the second time shortly after the death of her first husband in 1917 - a Leonard Lownes.  Does this mean anything to you?

If you, or any readers have any more information or photographs of the family, I should be delighted to hear from them. 

Best wishes Vanessa