Thomas Ptolemy Frederick Hutchins
(1894-1958)
Dorothy May (Dolly) Hoskins
(1897-1954)
Anthony (Tony) Leighton
(1933-1975)
Rita Yvonne Potter
(1934-2008)
Linda May Leighton
(1954-)

 

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Linda May Leighton

  • Born: 1954 79

  Research Notes:

Linda Rumble notes:
My Mother, Rita Yvonne Leighton nee.POTTER, became a Missing Person when I was three months old and her parents Mr & Mrs POTTER nee.WALKER never wanted any contact with me or my Father - known as Anthony LEIGHTON, born Anthony SARGENT. There was a great deal of Name confusion and falsification which has made tracing my paternal blood line extremely difficult.
My paternal grandmother, Dorothy May Leighton, formerly Sargent nee.HOSKINS, had died soon after I was conceived and My Father, a long distance lorry driver, could not look after me, so I was brought up in the family house at 46 Wellington Gardens where 7 adults lived who were all working, some were on Night Work, so I could be looked after during the day and during school holidays:
My paternal Grandfather known as Tom LEIGHTON, but born as Thomas Ptolemy Frederick HUTCHINS.
His Lodger - Bill Wynn - William Albert Wynn - no relation, but often looked after me after school.
Uncle Jack - John Arthur Joseph SARGENT.
Uncle Tom - known as Thomas Sargent LEIGHTON, but GRO Registered at Birth as Thomas SARGENT.
My Dad - known as 'Tony' - Anthony LEIGHTON, but GRO Registered at Birth as Anthony SARGENT.
'Mum' - Dad's half-sister Valerie Elsie CHURCHILL nee.SARGENT who I grew up to call 'Mum'.
'Unc' - William Samuel CHURCHILL married to Valerie and always like a Father to me.
I was never legally adopted and did not meet my mother until I was 25 and after my father had died.
Rita, my mother, had also ran away from her parents, so my maternal grandparents reacted badly on her return and told her that if she wanted to forge a relationship with me, then they never wanted to see her again, so this led to another 25 year separation from my mother, who could not see me until after they had both died by which time I was in my 50s... in fact Rita & I only met 6 times before she died unexpectedly. Consequently, no contact at all with my mother's side of the family resulted in me knowing nothing about them. As a child, Rita was estranged from her parents and sent to Boarding School as a child, so had very little knowledge to pass on about my maternal line; furthermore my father & I both had the fictitious LEIGHTON surname

The Leighton surname that I've had since birth has now lost its relevance, as my grandfather was actually born HUTCHINS!!! This was quite a shock in my 50s - my maiden name is fictitious!
Despite many hours, days and months of searching, I still do not know WHY the whole family changed their name from HUTCHINS to LEIGHTON and this is still very much a mystery to me & my sister Paula.

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. 79 Linda May Leighton's links to me through Robert are as follows:
Linda May Leighton (1954)
Her father was Anthony Leighton (1933)
His father was Thomas Hutchins (1894) who was partners with Dorothy Hoskins (1897)
Her father was Arthur Hoskins (1870) who married Elizabeth Boast (1872)
Her father was William Boast (1827)
His father was George Boast (1797) who married Hannah Aldous (1800)
Her father was William Aldous (1767)
His father was John Aldous (1739)
His father was James Aldous (1708)
His father was Thomas Aldous (1679)
His father was Stephen Aldous (1636) & he also had John Aldous (1681)
He had William Aldous (1712)
He had William Aldous (1751)
He had Zephaniah Aldous (1778)
He had Amelia Aldous (1818) who married James Peck (1820)
They had Charlotte Peck (1843) who married James Dawes (1843)
They had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred (1920)
He had Robert Arthur (1947) who married me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)


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