Dorothy Rose CONSTABLE CURTIS [493]

  General Notes:

Dorothy (Dossie) nursed with Olive Fenn in France in WW I, she met her husband Alston Fenn as a result. Her ashes are buried in St James Churchyard Nayland her headstone reads "Dorothy R Constable Fenn 1890 - 1980 of Alston Court".

Marriages.
The marriage arranged between Major A A Fenn, DSO only son of the late Col E H Fenn CIE, and Mrs Fenn of 10 St Albans Mansions Kensington, and Dorothy Rose Constable, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Constable Curtis, the Manor House, Ganarew, Monmouth, will take place on Thursday, January 25 at St Marys Church, Monmouth at 2 o'clock.
The Times January 31, 1923

Fenn on 22nd of December peacefully at home in Nayland, Dorothy Rose Constable, wife of the late Col Alston Fenn DSO and beloved mother of Alison Redman and Angela Wilson. Service of Thanksgiving in Nayland Parish Church on Monday, December 29 at 12 noon. No flowers.
The Times 24 December 1980

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, Ross HEF. Dorothy Rose is recorded as a daughter aged 1 born Ross HEF

2. Census: England, 31 Mar 1901, Merevale Ross HEF. Dorothy R C is recorded as a daughter aged 11 born Ross HEF

3. Dorothy (Dossie) Fenn nee Constable Curtis: Letter to Margot Fenn in NZ, 22 Feb 1969, Nayland.
Timbers Nayland
Colchester
February 22
My dear Margo
I was so relieved and delighted to get your letter and so glad you are better - I know only too well how long it takes to get over shingles in head & eye, I had it for 2 or 3 months with a bandaged eye! And even now my forehead and eye are weather profets (sic)! Yes we are having a very trying cold winter three weeks of snow and ice but the thaw set in yesterday and today there is not much snow left and the sun is out and birds singing, we were lucky here only about 5 inches, the main road was kept clear, now we expect floods! I am so lucky with this house it is so warm, oil central heating all through, when the sun shines I get it all! If the weather holds I am going to Angela in Gloucestershire on March 6 then we go on 15th to Eton as Angela's boy Peter is being confirmed that day at Eton. Alison came down for two nights which was lovely, Angela has been too. But I am so lucky having Nora Marsh living with me she is so charming and copes with me when I get bad headaches. There has been a very nice chapel made on the North side of the church after the organ was moved to the West End, its dedicated to St Francis and I have given the altar rails in memory of my Kim, it's really really very lovely and improved the church a lot, I wonder when Kay will get married? how exciting Edward and Joan to have another child I am so pleased.
With my love and I do remember you in my prayers.
Yours
Dossie.
Written on an Air Letter

4. Dorothy (Dossie) Fenn nee Constable Curtis: Some images from her life.

Dorothy married Lt Col Arthur Alston FENN D S O [492] [MRIN: 141], son of Col Ernest Harrold FENN M.R.C.S. C.I.E. [15] and Bertha Alison JOBSON [16], on 25 Jan 1923 in Monmouth Parish Church. (Lt Col Arthur Alston FENN D S O [492] was born on 13 May 1887 in Churchill Worcester, died on 25 Aug 1966 in Nayland and was buried in Nayland Churchyard SFK.)