Ivan James DeLano STEVENSON- HAMILTON [23609]

  General Notes:

Stevenson- Hamilton = Abbay. On February 15, 1946, at St Andrews, Framlingham Earl, Norfolk, by the Rector, the Rev E P Walker, Maj Ivan James Delano Stevenson-Hamilton, DSO, the Essex Regiment, only son of Major and Mrs S D Stevenson-Hamilton of Hannam Court, Leicester, to Lorna, eldest daughter of Col B N Abbay CB, of Meru Kenya, and Mrs L B L Hughes of Kinangop, Kenya.
Statesman 12 March 1946.

Stevenson-Hamilton,
Ivan James Delano
Son of Maj. Samuel Delano Stevenson-Hamilton (1886-1964), The Black Watch, and Bertha Gwladys Robinson Seaton (1880-1959).
Married 1st (15.02.1946; divorced) Bryony Lorna Abbay (? - 04.04.1980), daughter (with one brother, Capt. John Richard Abbay, The Essex Regiment Army_officers_A01.html) of Col. Bryan Norman Abbay, CB (1881-1947), and Etty Maud Julius (1891-1983) [divorced; she remarried L.B.L. Hughes], of East Soham, Suffolk, and Meru, Kenya..
Married 2nd (12.1980) Marjorie, widow of Brig. John Turnbull, CBE, DSO.
Born 16 Oct 1916.
Died 23 Feb 1998 buried at Newton Abbot

29.01.1938 commissioned, The Essex Regiment
2nd Lt.29.01.1938 [65836]
T/Lt. Col01.07.1944- to 01.1946
Lt.Col.05.07.1962 (retd 16.10.1971)
DSO 24.02.1942 Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
MID24.02.1942
Ref: http://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_S02.html#Stevenson-Hamilton_IJD

Ivan married Marjorie [23613] [MRIN: 8468] in Dec 1980.

Ivan next married Bryony Lorna ABBAY [1225] [MRIN: 8466], daughter of Col Bryan Norman ABBAY [821] and Henrietta (Etty) Maud JULIUS [820], on 15 Feb 1946 in St Andrew Framlingham Earl NFK. The marriage ended in divorce. (Bryony Lorna ABBAY [1225] was born on 3 Sep 1914 in Williton SOM and died on 4 Apr 1980 in Tiverton DEV.)