Gertrude Mary Robinson Yackjee

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Vivien’s mother, Gertrude Mary nee Yackjee was born in Darjeeling in 1888. Gertrude’s father Michael John Yackjee, formerly a Station Master but at the time of his death a landed proprietor, died when she was only 5 years of age. Agnes Mary, the next surviving sister was 15 years of age and likely to have still been in education at the time of their father’s death and therefore less of a worry to their widowed mother Mary Teresa Yackjee. Gertrude and Agnes’s eldest sister Mary Patricia was 14 years older having been born in 1874, she married in 1894 a year after their father’s death to Percy Feilmann. It was quite a common occurrence within Armenian families in India to take care of a recently bereaved parent, particularly if there were young children to be cared for; India was a harsh place to live if you didn’t have a family support network. It is quite likely that the newly married Mary Patricia Feilmann played a big part in comforting and supporting her recently widowed mother and the young girls. Percy Feilmann had a growing successful business, one that would fund a very lavish lifestyle as the years went on, they were in a position to help and support financially the widowed Mary Yackjee and her young family and I’m in no doubt the Feilmann’s would have played an important role in the survival of the Yackjee family and the young sisters, Agnes and Gertrude.

Gertrude had met Ernest Hartley in Calcutta, but they married in Kensington, London on the 9 April 1912.