Francis Charles Millington

Francis C Millington Possible father of Gaynor Millington, mother of Minnie Driver

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915

• Name: Francis Charles Millington
• Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1888
• Registration District: Stoke upon Trent
• Inferred County: Staffordshire
• Volume: 6b
• Page: 21

He went to college in York (http://www.yorkhistory.org.uk/node/38) and trained to be a teacher. He seems to have gone to teach in China but World War One intervened - Lieutenant. He returned to teaching in China and perhaps married there, having 2 daughters.

The Straits Times, 30 January 1917, Page 6

"An interesting wedding of semi-military nature took place at St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, on January 20, when Miss Arabella V Henderson M A an assistant mistress at Belilios School, was married to Lieut. Francis C Millington R G A who came to Hong Kong from Shanghai with the forces at the outbreak of the War. The bride is the elder daughter of the late Mr. James Henderson, Invergordon, N B who was one of the foremost agriculturists in Easter Ross. Her brother, Lieut James Henderson, an assistant professor of the Aberdeen University before the war, recently won the SCM. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. Francis T Millington of Hanley, Staffs"

Some time between 1926 and 1932 he seems to have changed his career to go into advertising,and started travelling , spending a lot of time in North America. Minnie Driver's grandmother was apparently Constance. His second family, 3 girls, including Minnie's mother Gaynor Millington were perhaps born in the East. He continued to travel as an advertising agent and publisher into the 1960s.