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H [dec at 59] Absalom Harry Edwards
W [dec at 67] Lady Caroline Lucy Montagu

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D1 [dec at 20] Phoebe Sophia Edwards
D2 [51] Frances Lydia Edwards
S1 [dec at 27] Jonathan Luke Edwards
S2 [dec at 28] Simon Anthony Edwards
D3 [dec at 32] Joan Eliza Edwards
S3 [dec at 24] Roger Nathaniel Edwards

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Paramour [59] Louis Albert di Laurentis

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D2 [51] Frances Lydia Edwards
H [dec at 58] Robert Butch Ravenswood

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S [28] Jack Harvey Ravenswood
D [dec at 6] Amelia Belle Ravenswood
S [dec at 20] William Frank Ravenswood

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S [23] Peter Tom Ravenswood
- Fiancée [20] Sophie Genevieve Anderson

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D [dec at 12] Louise Mae Ravenswood
S [dec at 5] Archie Fred Ravenswood

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D [21] Daisy Dora Ravenswood
- H [21] Victor Everett Castellano

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D [19] Alice Georgina Ravenswood
- exFiancé [19] Leslie Willis Livingstone

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S [16] Hugo Joseph Ravenswood
D [15] Josephine Louisa Ravenswood
D [dec at 9] Sylvia Sarah Ravenswood

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H [70] Eli Marshall Cavendish

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S2 [dec at 28] Simon Anthony Edwards
ExFiancée [dec at 27] Violet Grace Le Fay

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D [dec at 24] Minnie Kate Edwards
- exH [25] Adriel Edwards
- Mistress [41] Augusta Flora Snow

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ExW [39] Norah Mattie Rosewood

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D [22] Elsie Pearl Edwards
- H [22] Percy Rufus Winter

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D [22] Nellie Myrtle Edwards
- Fiancé [26] Virgil Silas Huxley

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D [20] Alma Jennie Edwards
- H [23] Jasper Noah Middleton

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D3 [dec at 32] Joan Eliza Edwards
H [dec at 32] Harvey Lee Hastings

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D [18] Lydia Christine Hastings
D [16] Antonia Rebecca Hastings
S [16] Richard Maurice Hastings
S [dec at 14] Leopold Edgar Hastings

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Paramour [42] Adam Théodore Monet

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Alice breaks off her engagement with Leslie. She told him early on that she would only marry him when they both turned 18 - ostensibly so they could both finish their education. However, as the date of her 18th birthday drew closer, she realised that she was filled with dread at the prospect - not because she disliked Leslie, but because she could not see herself as his wife. The broken engagement made things rather awkward with her family, all of whom have come to rather like Leslie.

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Minnie catches Adriel in flagrante with his mistress, their landlord's wife, and is furious, even as Adriel explains that was it not for their close relationship, Augusta would not have convinced her husband to lower their rent, thus allowing them to afford their comfortable, if not glamorous flat. Seeing that she will not yield, he agrees to divorce her.

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The Ravenswood family is devastated when their patriarch, Robert, dies when a ship sailing to America hits an iceberg. Another passenger was his nephew Leopold, who, despite being only 14, was fascinated by travel and wanted to see the country where his uncle spent his childhood. Robert is mourned deeply by his loving wife of 28 years, and their 6 surviving children out of the 11 they had, to whom he had always been a doting father. Leopold's death hits his siblings and his guardian, Adam, close. By sheer coincidence, Minnie, whom they had never met, was on the ship too, and died as well. Her funeral is attended by her aunt, Frances, and the three half-sisters she never met: Elsie, Nellie, and Alma.

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A year after her husband's death, Frances marries Eli Cavendish, an American man 19 years her senior who lost his wife, daughter, son-in-law, and three grandsons on the very samed ship where Robert, Minnie, and Leopold died. There is no passion between them, and they are happy to keep their union a mariage blanc - they find each other good companions who can understand what the other went through and who simply do not want to die alone.

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Elsie marries her fiancé, Percy, as soon as they save enough to purchase a small, but respectable flat. Peter gets engaged to a rosy-cheeked shorthand typist. While their backgrounds are rather different, Peter having grown up in relative wealth and Sophie being one of five children in a lower middle-class family, a happier match was never made, and Peter seems absolutely smitten with Sophie. Nellie gets engaged to a bewhiskered solicitor named Virgil, who introduces Alma, whom he gets along with splendidly, to his cousin. Alma and Jasper quickly fall for each other and marry.

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masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080

This message was edited 5/10/2022, 1:45 AM