Violet Maton Wienholt Stark

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Violet Maton Wienholt Stark

Also Known As: "Fox (or Aunt Vi)"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wantage, Oxfordshire, Beckett House, England (United Kingdom)
Death: November 29, 1961 (76)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, St Mary's Convent, 86 Hatherley Road, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Dr Mark Dugald Stark and Mary Helene Henrietta Stark
Wife of John Kenneth Macmeikan and Claude Reginald Powell
Mother of Katherine Ann Stringer
Sister of Helene Agatha Wienholt Stark; John Dugald Wienholt Stark; Robert Gordon Wienholt Stark; Mary Gladys Wienholt Veevers-Carter (Stark) and Mark Arnold Napier Stark

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About Violet Maton Wienholt Stark

Vi, known by the family nickname of Fox, had polio as a child.

In 1908 she was living at Noke.

At the time of the 1911 census, Violet's husband Kenneth Macmeikan (31) (who died the following year of TB) was in the household of his parents and grandmother in Sandwich, Kent. (Violet was perhaps absent at a relation's house). She was very close to the Macmeikan family and their two boarders, Una (20) and Florence (18) Mackenzie. Florence, known as Fonnie, was a close friend of the STARK siblings. regarding them almost as her brothers and sisters.

In January 1912, Una was killed in a riding accident, aged just 21. Less than two months later, Vi's husband Ken (Kenneth Macmeikan) succumbed at last to TB. As a distraction from all that grief, a short time later Vi & her sister Gladys went to visit their Stark relations in Canada. Their brother Jack, writing to his brother Gordon, anticipated the sisters' departure as another bereavement for him. He hoped his brother would come and stay with him at the Macmeikans' house in Sandwich at Easter, as a paying guest.

In 1917 Violet was living at 33 Alfred Place West, SW London.

Witnesses at her wedding to Claude Powell were M.B. Powell, J.D.W. Stark and W.R. Powell.

Died in St. Mary's Convent, 86 Hatherley Road, Cheltenham. Witnesses were: John A.W. Stark, John Alexander Macmeikan, John Burden Sanderson Haldane.

Daughter KA Stringer registered death.

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Violet Maton Wienholt Stark's Timeline

1885
May 13, 1885
Wantage, Oxfordshire, Beckett House, England (United Kingdom)
1918
January 22, 1918
England (United Kingdom)
1961
November 29, 1961
Age 76
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, St Mary's Convent, 86 Hatherley Road, England (United Kingdom)
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