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De Selvier Family p.6

And so to Hastings:

Edward De Selvier -Listed in the Court Directory of Pike’s Directory at Mar Lodge, Boscobel Road St Leonards, from 1897 - 1906

In 1902 we have Edward in St :Leonards –

Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 28 Jun 1902

EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM

Edward De Selvier, of Mar Lodge. The Exhibition also embraces an interesting series of portraits and autographs of former English Sovereigns, including Queen Elizabeth, James 1, Charles 1., Charles 11., and George 11. ……

The Directory shows in 1931 - DE SELVIER, Misses. ‘Ellsworth’, no.10 De Cham Rd, St Leonards-on-Sea

And Martha:

Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 3 Feb 1900

Hastings. WANTED,

Mrs. De Selvier, Mar Lodge, The Highlands, St. Leonards. WANTED, good GENERAL or Plain Cook, or good Kitchenmaid. good Plain Cook; willing, early riser; Kitchenmaid kept; country place.—

1911 Census - Martha De Selvier. BIRTH: about 1859 - Southampton, Gosport
RESIDENCE: 2 Apr 1911 - Eastbourne, Sussex, England

On 28 Jun 1912 a piece of building land with a newly erected tenement called Milton House, 8 Milton Street, in Eastbourne was leased by Victor Christian William, the Duke of Devonshire, by the direction of Llewellyn Polhill Newman, builder, to Mrs Martha de Selvier, widow. Both the lease and counterpart lease are endorsed with a memorandum of the conveyance of the freehold reversion to George Herbert Boxall on 24 Nov 1971. - amsg/AMS5578/3 1912

DE SELVIER, Martha . 8, Milton Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, Widow. 6th January, 1951.

Death - DE SELVIER, Violet Rose Cecile.  55 Magdalen Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, Spinster. 17th June 1966.

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