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About Jean Elizabeth Doyle
Jean Elizabeth Leckie (14 March 1874 - 27 June 1940), daughter of James Blythe Leckie and Selina Bousfield, was the second wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They married on 18 september 1907, but Conan Doyle was in love with her since 1897, a platonic love until the death of his first wife in 1906. They installed in Crowborough (Sussex), where she gave him 3 children (Denis in 1909, Adrian in 1910, Lena Jean in 1912).
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From Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 5 2017, 23:51:27 UTC
[The second Lady Conan Doyle] was the Second wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. She was an intellectual, a horsewoman, a lyric vocalist, and met Conan Doyle on March 15, 1897, and though he was then married to Louise Hawkins they both fell in love. However they agreed to maintain a platonic romance and not to do anything that could affect Louise, who was ill with tuberculosis. Louise died in July 1906, and Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle married 14 months later, in September 1907. The couple had three children. The marriage was a happy one and lasted until Conan Doyle's death in 1930. Jean Conan Doyle died 10 years later and is interred with her husband.
- https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Jean_Elizabeth_L...
- https://annajroberts.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/the-further-madness-o...
- Residence: 1881 - 4 The Avenue, Eltham, London, England
- Reference: 1881 England & Wales Census - SmartCopy: Jan 6 2017, 0:03:51 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 5 2017, 23:26:03 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 5 2017, 23:59:27 UTC
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 6 2017, 0:17:47 UTC
- Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 6 2017, 0:26:09 UTC
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Jean Elizabeth Doyle's Timeline
| 1874 |
March 4, 1874
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Kidbrook, Kent, England, United Kingdom
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| 1909 |
March 17, 1909
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Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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| 1910 |
November 19, 1910
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Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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| 1912 |
December 21, 1912
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Crowborough, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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| 1940 |
June 27, 1940
Age 66
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London, County London, England, United Kingdom
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All Saints Churchyard (Plot: Under an oak tree with husband), Minstead, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
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