Robert Stevens photographer

[BettyBoops]

Greenwood Avenue, Hull

[sparrett]

No, not the chap I found

 Sue

[sparrett]

Now, here is another stab 
A marriage.
I don't know what date the arrival of Lorna was but....

Marriages June Qu. 1948   

SEALE  Lorna E.
MADDOCK Ernest H
Finsbury  5c/ 1183

Middle names from the Electoral Roll are Elizabeth and Henry.

Sue

[BettyBoops]

Hmm. I suspect that must be another Lorna, as our Lorna was with Grant family until October 1948, at least, and attended a school to learn Stenographer abilities in order to gain a profession.

[sparrett]

Mmmm....
My stabs are not good today
Sue

[majm]

    I cannot get Lorna from India to England  my armchair online index says it is "All UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960" .... but I cannot find her there under the name Lorna SEALE.     

JM

[BettyBoops]

JM- I'll double check later, but I'm sure it was in April that she made her way there.
Have sent an email to the researcher in the UK. Fingers crossed that she has the time, want and the documents are "easy" to locate. And the planets align and give us some rewarding news!!!!!! 

[BettyBoops]

Letter by RP Grant to the High Commissioner for India, India House, London. Dated 30 March 1948
QUOTE (in part):.. an 18 year old daughter, Lorna, is staying at my house at the moment. Up to February 18 of this year she was attending the Girls High School (La Martiniere) at Luchnow. On that date she sailed in the "SS Empire Brent" from Bombay, arriving in Liverpool on March 8th."
It goes into detail about the arrangements for travel being made a Mr Webb, Evacuee and Repatriation Officer for the European Assoc. Lorna hadn't heard from her father in two years. She contacted Mr Grant a week before sailing. then he goes on imploring the HC for assistance in finding Colin. He also asks if there was a scheme where Lorna s"could be assisted in any way fitting herself out for a career."                                                                             
In a letter (21 April 1948) to the Commonwealth Relations Office, Downing Street, from the Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, she was advised that Lorna's brother was contributing to her maintenance.
In a letter from the Lady Principal of Martiniere School, she mentions that Grant is a cousin. In the merchant navy. Lorna had been in touch with the Principal mentioning that she "is taking a course in Stenography with a view to taking up work as soon as she is equipped to do so."
By May 1948 Colin had been traced to Sergeant B Seale (a brother of Lorna's according to a letter by RP Grant) in married quarters Burniston Barracks, Scarborough. E Yorks.     Cheers, Betty

[sparrett]

Well, even though many mysteries remain, the fact that R. P. GRANT is mentioned to be a cousin, makes a good firm connection between this Colin SEALE and the GRANT family.

R.P. GRANT, it seems, was the son of Lorna's aunt Hilda GRANT (nee SEALE).

Sue