Olga Beatrice LEIGHTON

Olga Beatrice LEIGHTON

Female 1889 - 1980  (90 years)

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  • Name Olga Beatrice LEIGHTON 
    Born 28 Jul 1889  Fulham reg district Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Census 5 Apr 1891  4 Tyneside?Terrace, Fulham, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 31 Mar 1901  Wynnstay Bank, Hornsey, Edmonton, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Pupil
    Census 2 Apr 1911  Manor House, Halford, Shipton on Stour, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Visitor staying at the Freake household, living on private means
    Emigration 19 Jan 1920  Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Departed from Southampton onboard the Mauretania on the 19th January 1920, destined for Miami Florida.
      Travelling alone as far as can be identiied, aged 30 years 5 months and single.
      Next of kin given as her father Capt F Leighton of 40 Brompton Square, London.
    Emigration 15 Apr 1922  Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Sailed on the Mauretania departing from Southampton (15th April 1922) and arriving in New York (21st Apr 1922).
      Address in USA given as Leamington Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
    Died 8 Feb 1980  Lausanne, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I5637  Chap 08 Eyrecourt
    Last Modified 29 May 2013 

    Father Edward William Forester LEIGHTON,   b. 1840,   d. 17 Oct 1932, Kensington reg district Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years) 
    Mother Beatrice Jane EYRE,   b. 1862, Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1940, Kensington reg district Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 28 Aug 1886  [4
    Family ID F64  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Frank Jay MACKEY,   b. 20 Mar 1852, Gilboa, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Feb 1927, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Married 14 Dec 1920  Monte Carlo Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Last Modified 27 Jul 2012 
    Family ID F415  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Alphonso DE PORTAGO,   d. 1942 
    Married 1927 
    Children 
     1. Alphonso DE PORTAGO,   b. 11 Oct 1928, Marylebone reg district Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 May 1957, Giudizzolo, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years)
     2. Solidad DE PORTAGO
    Last Modified 13 Jul 2014 
    Family ID F417  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Isidro MARTIN-MONTIS 
    Last Modified 27 Jul 2012 
    Family ID F418  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • On the death of her first husband Frank she inherited a controlling interest in Household Financial Corporation which at the time of her son Alphonso's death in 1957 was worth $550,000,000

  • Sources 
    1. [S280] GRO Index.

    2. [S286] Passport application.

    3. [S289] Newspaper Obituary.

    4. [S1] Eyre Notes & Queries, Rev A S Hartigan, (Rev Allen Stewart Hartigan. MA, TCD,, Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh. Glos., 1911-1918), Page 118 (Reliability: 3).