Whatever happened to Leslie Durrell. Gerald Durrell writes about Leslie in such a compelling way in the Corfu trilogy that it is impossible not to wonder what happened to the hunting, shooting and fishing mad brother who so kindly built young Gerry a boat on Corfu.
Although all the other three Durrell siblings – even Margaret – wrote about their lives, Leslie did not, and never sought the public spotlight and one can imagine he would be surprised at the interest in his life.
Leslie is actually the only Durrell sibling that Lawrence mentions in his Corfu memoir, Prospero’s Cell, and Margo mentions him many times in her own, considerably less famous memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?
Born in 1918, Leslie was the second-eldest Durrell sibling. When the Durrells moved from India to England after the death of their father, Leslie went to an English school but was apparently not happy there (neither were his brothers). On Corfu, though, Leslie felt at home, drank with the local peasants and hunted local game.
Leslie returned to England with his mother, Gerald, Margaret and the family’s Corfiot maid, Maria Kondos when the Second World War broke out. (Margaret, of course, soon afterwards went back ‘home’ to Corfu.) The Durrells settled in Bournemouth and Leslie tried to enlist in the army but was rejected on the grounds of ill-health, something that was a setback for him. Instead, he spent the war working in an RAF factory.
Shortly after the family returned to England, Leslie had a brief romance with the family’s Corfiot friend and live-in maid, Maria Kondos, that produced a son, Anthony. However, the romance was short-lived.
While living at home he had an affair with his mother’s Greek maid, Maria Kondos, who was ten years older. He was already dating Doris Hall, the young manageress of the off-licence where his mother bought her gin. In September 1945, Maria had a baby by Leslie, in whom he took no interest. The decision would shatter the life of Anthony Kondos, as the boy was named, who grew up knowing nothing about his father. ‘My main regret in life is that I never knew my father,’ he once said. ‘For many years I felt extreme animosity towards him and the rest of the family . . Now I have only sadness that I was not one of them, the family . . . And oddly enough, I am proud of being a Durrell, albeit nameless.’
Leslie, meanwhile, married Doris Hall, from the off-licence, in 1952, and they moved to Kenya to run a hunting reserve.
Lawrence also cut Leslie out of his life: on one occasion Leslie went to visit his brother, but Lawrence’s wife refused him entry, fearing he wanted to borrow money.
In 1968, Leslie and Doris returned to England from Africa, penniless, and ended up working as caretakers for a block of flats near Marble Arch. By the time he died in 1983, while drinking in a Notting Hill pub aged 65, he still hadn’t reunited with his siblings and none attended his funeral.
Though Margo’s life was also far from glamorous, she remained closest to Leslie and married twice, first to Gerry Breeze, a pilot with whom she travelled round Africa and had two sons. Her second brief marriage was to a trombonist called Max Duncan.
Twice divorced and with two young children, she used her small inheritance to open a boarding house in Bournemouth, where ‘lodgers would mark my life like milestones’. These included jazz trumpeters, a battered wife and a Maltese transsexual. She later wrote: ‘My dream of wealth accumulating in the bank was forgotten as I came face to face with reality.’ She remained in Bournemouth until her death, aged 87, in 2007.
Leslie also had the Durrell artistic streak – he was a painter. This is how Margo describes him in her memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?:
Leslie, that squat, Rabelaisian figure lavishing oils on canvas or sunk deep in the intricacies of guns, boats, beer and women
Margo refers to Leslie as having “the hint of an entrepreneur”, and he certainly tried his hand several businesses, but had bad luck. When he came of age and received the inheritance his father left him, he used it to set up a boat business, spending all his money on a fishing boat that sadly sank before its maiden voyage out of Poole Harbour, accordintg to Margo.
Leslie and Margo were close, with Margo recalling several of their childhood antics in her memoir. Leslie was a generous brother – Margo also tells the tale of how he saved a puppy from being put to sleep and brought it to live with Margo.
In 1952, Leslie married his long-term girlfriend, Doris Maire Hall* (see note below on Doris Irene Wheeler 1905-1990) b.30 Jun 1930 d. 5 Jan 2015, whose family ran an off-license in Bournemouth. Doris, 'big-hearted, big-voiced, laughing', was older than Leslie, and the relationship was a happy one. Soon after the couple married, they left England to start a new life in Kenya, where they wanted to run a farm. Sadly, though, that business did not work out and Leslie and Doris were forced to return to England in 1968.
Leslie got work in London as a concierge in a smart Marble Arch hotel. In 1983, he died of heart failure while in a Notting Hill pub. It is rather tragic that none of Leslie’s siblings attended his funeral.
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Find A Grave contributor, Purrpuss has made the following suggested edit:
It seems as if the exact location of his death was the Carnarvon Castle in Portobello Road, W.10. This is the transcript of a conversation on the Born in W.10 Facebook page. "
Talking of old pubs in Notting Hill, would anyone know which one was where Gerald Durrell's brother Leslie died. It was about 1980 he had a heart attack in one of them but I have never been able to locate it.
Did he have 2 sons called Clifford and Paul and a daughter?
I know a man had a heart attack and passed away around that time in the canarvan castle on portobello rd at the junction of goldborne rd. Big pub on the corner its called something else now but still there. Not sure If it's the same person as I didn't know his name but remember his family and wife. 2 sons and a daughter
· According to Wikipedia his wife was Doris. The names of his children are private. It was 1983 he died.
I think it is the same man. I knew one of his sons Paul. His dad died in the pub had a heart attack. Doris worked in the veg shop on gold born Rd in the late early 90s. They lived in St Charles Sq not sure where they lived before that. Not sure of her maiden name may have been Phipps
Jan 10th 2019 Contributor: Purrpuss (49835496)
Dates corrected – Suggested By: Chris mbr#48059020 13 May 2019
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Doris Hall
Known As: "Doris Maire Durrell"* see note below
b. June 30, 1930
d. January 05, 2015 (84)
Wife of Leslie Stuart Durrell
https://durrelllibrarycorfu.wordpress.com/adaptations/
*•July 22nd 2019
Contributor: Chris Goddard (48059020) • The Doris Hall who married Leslie in 1952 was not the Doris Maire Hall, born in 1930. Leslie's wife was born Doris Irene Wheeler, born 8 May 1905 in Bournemouth. In 1928 she married Clement Walter Reginald Hall who died in 1985. At some point between 1928 and 1952, Doris and Clement were divorced but she kept the surname Hall. When she married Leslie in 1952 the surnames Wheeler and Hall were both registered. She died in 1990.
Although all the other three Durrell siblings – even Margaret – wrote about their lives, Leslie did not, and never sought the public spotlight and one can imagine he would be surprised at the interest in his life.
Leslie is actually the only Durrell sibling that Lawrence mentions in his Corfu memoir, Prospero’s Cell, and Margo mentions him many times in her own, considerably less famous memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?
Born in 1918, Leslie was the second-eldest Durrell sibling. When the Durrells moved from India to England after the death of their father, Leslie went to an English school but was apparently not happy there (neither were his brothers). On Corfu, though, Leslie felt at home, drank with the local peasants and hunted local game.
Leslie returned to England with his mother, Gerald, Margaret and the family’s Corfiot maid, Maria Kondos when the Second World War broke out. (Margaret, of course, soon afterwards went back ‘home’ to Corfu.) The Durrells settled in Bournemouth and Leslie tried to enlist in the army but was rejected on the grounds of ill-health, something that was a setback for him. Instead, he spent the war working in an RAF factory.
Shortly after the family returned to England, Leslie had a brief romance with the family’s Corfiot friend and live-in maid, Maria Kondos, that produced a son, Anthony. However, the romance was short-lived.
While living at home he had an affair with his mother’s Greek maid, Maria Kondos, who was ten years older. He was already dating Doris Hall, the young manageress of the off-licence where his mother bought her gin. In September 1945, Maria had a baby by Leslie, in whom he took no interest. The decision would shatter the life of Anthony Kondos, as the boy was named, who grew up knowing nothing about his father. ‘My main regret in life is that I never knew my father,’ he once said. ‘For many years I felt extreme animosity towards him and the rest of the family . . Now I have only sadness that I was not one of them, the family . . . And oddly enough, I am proud of being a Durrell, albeit nameless.’
Leslie, meanwhile, married Doris Hall, from the off-licence, in 1952, and they moved to Kenya to run a hunting reserve.
Lawrence also cut Leslie out of his life: on one occasion Leslie went to visit his brother, but Lawrence’s wife refused him entry, fearing he wanted to borrow money.
In 1968, Leslie and Doris returned to England from Africa, penniless, and ended up working as caretakers for a block of flats near Marble Arch. By the time he died in 1983, while drinking in a Notting Hill pub aged 65, he still hadn’t reunited with his siblings and none attended his funeral.
Though Margo’s life was also far from glamorous, she remained closest to Leslie and married twice, first to Gerry Breeze, a pilot with whom she travelled round Africa and had two sons. Her second brief marriage was to a trombonist called Max Duncan.
Twice divorced and with two young children, she used her small inheritance to open a boarding house in Bournemouth, where ‘lodgers would mark my life like milestones’. These included jazz trumpeters, a battered wife and a Maltese transsexual. She later wrote: ‘My dream of wealth accumulating in the bank was forgotten as I came face to face with reality.’ She remained in Bournemouth until her death, aged 87, in 2007.
Leslie also had the Durrell artistic streak – he was a painter. This is how Margo describes him in her memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?:
Leslie, that squat, Rabelaisian figure lavishing oils on canvas or sunk deep in the intricacies of guns, boats, beer and women
Margo refers to Leslie as having “the hint of an entrepreneur”, and he certainly tried his hand several businesses, but had bad luck. When he came of age and received the inheritance his father left him, he used it to set up a boat business, spending all his money on a fishing boat that sadly sank before its maiden voyage out of Poole Harbour, accordintg to Margo.
Leslie and Margo were close, with Margo recalling several of their childhood antics in her memoir. Leslie was a generous brother – Margo also tells the tale of how he saved a puppy from being put to sleep and brought it to live with Margo.
In 1952, Leslie married his long-term girlfriend, Doris Maire Hall* (see note below on Doris Irene Wheeler 1905-1990) b.30 Jun 1930 d. 5 Jan 2015, whose family ran an off-license in Bournemouth. Doris, 'big-hearted, big-voiced, laughing', was older than Leslie, and the relationship was a happy one. Soon after the couple married, they left England to start a new life in Kenya, where they wanted to run a farm. Sadly, though, that business did not work out and Leslie and Doris were forced to return to England in 1968.
Leslie got work in London as a concierge in a smart Marble Arch hotel. In 1983, he died of heart failure while in a Notting Hill pub. It is rather tragic that none of Leslie’s siblings attended his funeral.
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Find A Grave contributor, Purrpuss has made the following suggested edit:
It seems as if the exact location of his death was the Carnarvon Castle in Portobello Road, W.10. This is the transcript of a conversation on the Born in W.10 Facebook page. "
Talking of old pubs in Notting Hill, would anyone know which one was where Gerald Durrell's brother Leslie died. It was about 1980 he had a heart attack in one of them but I have never been able to locate it.
Did he have 2 sons called Clifford and Paul and a daughter?
I know a man had a heart attack and passed away around that time in the canarvan castle on portobello rd at the junction of goldborne rd. Big pub on the corner its called something else now but still there. Not sure If it's the same person as I didn't know his name but remember his family and wife. 2 sons and a daughter
· According to Wikipedia his wife was Doris. The names of his children are private. It was 1983 he died.
I think it is the same man. I knew one of his sons Paul. His dad died in the pub had a heart attack. Doris worked in the veg shop on gold born Rd in the late early 90s. They lived in St Charles Sq not sure where they lived before that. Not sure of her maiden name may have been Phipps
Jan 10th 2019 Contributor: Purrpuss (49835496)
Dates corrected – Suggested By: Chris mbr#48059020 13 May 2019
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Doris Hall
Known As: "Doris Maire Durrell"* see note below
b. June 30, 1930
d. January 05, 2015 (84)
Wife of Leslie Stuart Durrell
https://durrelllibrarycorfu.wordpress.com/adaptations/
*•July 22nd 2019
Contributor: Chris Goddard (48059020) • The Doris Hall who married Leslie in 1952 was not the Doris Maire Hall, born in 1930. Leslie's wife was born Doris Irene Wheeler, born 8 May 1905 in Bournemouth. In 1928 she married Clement Walter Reginald Hall who died in 1985. At some point between 1928 and 1952, Doris and Clement were divorced but she kept the surname Hall. When she married Leslie in 1952 the surnames Wheeler and Hall were both registered. She died in 1990.
Whatever happened to Leslie Durrell. Gerald Durrell writes about Leslie in such a compelling way in the Corfu trilogy that it is impossible not to wonder what happened to the hunting, shooting and fishing mad brother who so kindly built young Gerry a boat on Corfu.
Although all the other three Durrell siblings – even Margaret – wrote about their lives, Leslie did not, and never sought the public spotlight and one can imagine he would be surprised at the interest in his life.
Leslie is actually the only Durrell sibling that Lawrence mentions in his Corfu memoir, Prospero’s Cell, and Margo mentions him many times in her own, considerably less famous memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?
Born in 1918, Leslie was the second-eldest Durrell sibling. When the Durrells moved from India to England after the death of their father, Leslie went to an English school but was apparently not happy there (neither were his brothers). On Corfu, though, Leslie felt at home, drank with the local peasants and hunted local game.
Leslie returned to England with his mother, Gerald, Margaret and the family’s Corfiot maid, Maria Kondos when the Second World War broke out. (Margaret, of course, soon afterwards went back ‘home’ to Corfu.) The Durrells settled in Bournemouth and Leslie tried to enlist in the army but was rejected on the grounds of ill-health, something that was a setback for him. Instead, he spent the war working in an RAF factory.
Shortly after the family returned to England, Leslie had a brief romance with the family’s Corfiot friend and live-in maid, Maria Kondos, that produced a son, Anthony. However, the romance was short-lived.
While living at home he had an affair with his mother’s Greek maid, Maria Kondos, who was ten years older. He was already dating Doris Hall, the young manageress of the off-licence where his mother bought her gin. In September 1945, Maria had a baby by Leslie, in whom he took no interest. The decision would shatter the life of Anthony Kondos, as the boy was named, who grew up knowing nothing about his father. ‘My main regret in life is that I never knew my father,’ he once said. ‘For many years I felt extreme animosity towards him and the rest of the family . . Now I have only sadness that I was not one of them, the family . . . And oddly enough, I am proud of being a Durrell, albeit nameless.’
Leslie, meanwhile, married Doris Hall, from the off-licence, in 1952, and they moved to Kenya to run a hunting reserve.
Lawrence also cut Leslie out of his life: on one occasion Leslie went to visit his brother, but Lawrence’s wife refused him entry, fearing he wanted to borrow money.
In 1968, Leslie and Doris returned to England from Africa, penniless, and ended up working as caretakers for a block of flats near Marble Arch. By the time he died in 1983, while drinking in a Notting Hill pub aged 65, he still hadn’t reunited with his siblings and none attended his funeral.
Though Margo’s life was also far from glamorous, she remained closest to Leslie and married twice, first to Gerry Breeze, a pilot with whom she travelled round Africa and had two sons. Her second brief marriage was to a trombonist called Max Duncan.
Twice divorced and with two young children, she used her small inheritance to open a boarding house in Bournemouth, where ‘lodgers would mark my life like milestones’. These included jazz trumpeters, a battered wife and a Maltese transsexual. She later wrote: ‘My dream of wealth accumulating in the bank was forgotten as I came face to face with reality.’ She remained in Bournemouth until her death, aged 87, in 2007.
Leslie also had the Durrell artistic streak – he was a painter. This is how Margo describes him in her memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?:
Leslie, that squat, Rabelaisian figure lavishing oils on canvas or sunk deep in the intricacies of guns, boats, beer and women
Margo refers to Leslie as having “the hint of an entrepreneur”, and he certainly tried his hand several businesses, but had bad luck. When he came of age and received the inheritance his father left him, he used it to set up a boat business, spending all his money on a fishing boat that sadly sank before its maiden voyage out of Poole Harbour, accordintg to Margo.
Leslie and Margo were close, with Margo recalling several of their childhood antics in her memoir. Leslie was a generous brother – Margo also tells the tale of how he saved a puppy from being put to sleep and brought it to live with Margo.
In 1952, Leslie married his long-term girlfriend, Doris Maire Hall* (see note below on Doris Irene Wheeler 1905-1990) b.30 Jun 1930 d. 5 Jan 2015, whose family ran an off-license in Bournemouth. Doris, 'big-hearted, big-voiced, laughing', was older than Leslie, and the relationship was a happy one. Soon after the couple married, they left England to start a new life in Kenya, where they wanted to run a farm. Sadly, though, that business did not work out and Leslie and Doris were forced to return to England in 1968.
Leslie got work in London as a concierge in a smart Marble Arch hotel. In 1983, he died of heart failure while in a Notting Hill pub. It is rather tragic that none of Leslie’s siblings attended his funeral.
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Find A Grave contributor, Purrpuss has made the following suggested edit:
It seems as if the exact location of his death was the Carnarvon Castle in Portobello Road, W.10. This is the transcript of a conversation on the Born in W.10 Facebook page. "
Talking of old pubs in Notting Hill, would anyone know which one was where Gerald Durrell's brother Leslie died. It was about 1980 he had a heart attack in one of them but I have never been able to locate it.
Did he have 2 sons called Clifford and Paul and a daughter?
I know a man had a heart attack and passed away around that time in the canarvan castle on portobello rd at the junction of goldborne rd. Big pub on the corner its called something else now but still there. Not sure If it's the same person as I didn't know his name but remember his family and wife. 2 sons and a daughter
· According to Wikipedia his wife was Doris. The names of his children are private. It was 1983 he died.
I think it is the same man. I knew one of his sons Paul. His dad died in the pub had a heart attack. Doris worked in the veg shop on gold born Rd in the late early 90s. They lived in St Charles Sq not sure where they lived before that. Not sure of her maiden name may have been Phipps
Jan 10th 2019 Contributor: Purrpuss (49835496)
Dates corrected – Suggested By: Chris mbr#48059020 13 May 2019
---------
Doris Hall
Known As: "Doris Maire Durrell"* see note below
b. June 30, 1930
d. January 05, 2015 (84)
Wife of Leslie Stuart Durrell
https://durrelllibrarycorfu.wordpress.com/adaptations/
*•July 22nd 2019
Contributor: Chris Goddard (48059020) • The Doris Hall who married Leslie in 1952 was not the Doris Maire Hall, born in 1930. Leslie's wife was born Doris Irene Wheeler, born 8 May 1905 in Bournemouth. In 1928 she married Clement Walter Reginald Hall who died in 1985. At some point between 1928 and 1952, Doris and Clement were divorced but she kept the surname Hall. When she married Leslie in 1952 the surnames Wheeler and Hall were both registered. She died in 1990.
Although all the other three Durrell siblings – even Margaret – wrote about their lives, Leslie did not, and never sought the public spotlight and one can imagine he would be surprised at the interest in his life.
Leslie is actually the only Durrell sibling that Lawrence mentions in his Corfu memoir, Prospero’s Cell, and Margo mentions him many times in her own, considerably less famous memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?
Born in 1918, Leslie was the second-eldest Durrell sibling. When the Durrells moved from India to England after the death of their father, Leslie went to an English school but was apparently not happy there (neither were his brothers). On Corfu, though, Leslie felt at home, drank with the local peasants and hunted local game.
Leslie returned to England with his mother, Gerald, Margaret and the family’s Corfiot maid, Maria Kondos when the Second World War broke out. (Margaret, of course, soon afterwards went back ‘home’ to Corfu.) The Durrells settled in Bournemouth and Leslie tried to enlist in the army but was rejected on the grounds of ill-health, something that was a setback for him. Instead, he spent the war working in an RAF factory.
Shortly after the family returned to England, Leslie had a brief romance with the family’s Corfiot friend and live-in maid, Maria Kondos, that produced a son, Anthony. However, the romance was short-lived.
While living at home he had an affair with his mother’s Greek maid, Maria Kondos, who was ten years older. He was already dating Doris Hall, the young manageress of the off-licence where his mother bought her gin. In September 1945, Maria had a baby by Leslie, in whom he took no interest. The decision would shatter the life of Anthony Kondos, as the boy was named, who grew up knowing nothing about his father. ‘My main regret in life is that I never knew my father,’ he once said. ‘For many years I felt extreme animosity towards him and the rest of the family . . Now I have only sadness that I was not one of them, the family . . . And oddly enough, I am proud of being a Durrell, albeit nameless.’
Leslie, meanwhile, married Doris Hall, from the off-licence, in 1952, and they moved to Kenya to run a hunting reserve.
Lawrence also cut Leslie out of his life: on one occasion Leslie went to visit his brother, but Lawrence’s wife refused him entry, fearing he wanted to borrow money.
In 1968, Leslie and Doris returned to England from Africa, penniless, and ended up working as caretakers for a block of flats near Marble Arch. By the time he died in 1983, while drinking in a Notting Hill pub aged 65, he still hadn’t reunited with his siblings and none attended his funeral.
Though Margo’s life was also far from glamorous, she remained closest to Leslie and married twice, first to Gerry Breeze, a pilot with whom she travelled round Africa and had two sons. Her second brief marriage was to a trombonist called Max Duncan.
Twice divorced and with two young children, she used her small inheritance to open a boarding house in Bournemouth, where ‘lodgers would mark my life like milestones’. These included jazz trumpeters, a battered wife and a Maltese transsexual. She later wrote: ‘My dream of wealth accumulating in the bank was forgotten as I came face to face with reality.’ She remained in Bournemouth until her death, aged 87, in 2007.
Leslie also had the Durrell artistic streak – he was a painter. This is how Margo describes him in her memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?:
Leslie, that squat, Rabelaisian figure lavishing oils on canvas or sunk deep in the intricacies of guns, boats, beer and women
Margo refers to Leslie as having “the hint of an entrepreneur”, and he certainly tried his hand several businesses, but had bad luck. When he came of age and received the inheritance his father left him, he used it to set up a boat business, spending all his money on a fishing boat that sadly sank before its maiden voyage out of Poole Harbour, accordintg to Margo.
Leslie and Margo were close, with Margo recalling several of their childhood antics in her memoir. Leslie was a generous brother – Margo also tells the tale of how he saved a puppy from being put to sleep and brought it to live with Margo.
In 1952, Leslie married his long-term girlfriend, Doris Maire Hall* (see note below on Doris Irene Wheeler 1905-1990) b.30 Jun 1930 d. 5 Jan 2015, whose family ran an off-license in Bournemouth. Doris, 'big-hearted, big-voiced, laughing', was older than Leslie, and the relationship was a happy one. Soon after the couple married, they left England to start a new life in Kenya, where they wanted to run a farm. Sadly, though, that business did not work out and Leslie and Doris were forced to return to England in 1968.
Leslie got work in London as a concierge in a smart Marble Arch hotel. In 1983, he died of heart failure while in a Notting Hill pub. It is rather tragic that none of Leslie’s siblings attended his funeral.
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Find A Grave contributor, Purrpuss has made the following suggested edit:
It seems as if the exact location of his death was the Carnarvon Castle in Portobello Road, W.10. This is the transcript of a conversation on the Born in W.10 Facebook page. "
Talking of old pubs in Notting Hill, would anyone know which one was where Gerald Durrell's brother Leslie died. It was about 1980 he had a heart attack in one of them but I have never been able to locate it.
Did he have 2 sons called Clifford and Paul and a daughter?
I know a man had a heart attack and passed away around that time in the canarvan castle on portobello rd at the junction of goldborne rd. Big pub on the corner its called something else now but still there. Not sure If it's the same person as I didn't know his name but remember his family and wife. 2 sons and a daughter
· According to Wikipedia his wife was Doris. The names of his children are private. It was 1983 he died.
I think it is the same man. I knew one of his sons Paul. His dad died in the pub had a heart attack. Doris worked in the veg shop on gold born Rd in the late early 90s. They lived in St Charles Sq not sure where they lived before that. Not sure of her maiden name may have been Phipps
Jan 10th 2019 Contributor: Purrpuss (49835496)
Dates corrected – Suggested By: Chris mbr#48059020 13 May 2019
---------
Doris Hall
Known As: "Doris Maire Durrell"* see note below
b. June 30, 1930
d. January 05, 2015 (84)
Wife of Leslie Stuart Durrell
https://durrelllibrarycorfu.wordpress.com/adaptations/
*•July 22nd 2019
Contributor: Chris Goddard (48059020) • The Doris Hall who married Leslie in 1952 was not the Doris Maire Hall, born in 1930. Leslie's wife was born Doris Irene Wheeler, born 8 May 1905 in Bournemouth. In 1928 she married Clement Walter Reginald Hall who died in 1985. At some point between 1928 and 1952, Doris and Clement were divorced but she kept the surname Hall. When she married Leslie in 1952 the surnames Wheeler and Hall were both registered. She died in 1990.
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