| 1. | Catherine Daphne (Paul) Rodocanachi was born on 17 May 1920 in London, England UK; was christened on 04 Jul 1920 in St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK; died on 31 Jan 2011 in Kingham, Oxfordshire, England UK; was buried on 11 Feb 2011 in Cherington, Warwickshire, England UK. Notes:
A 1948 press report of her marriage describes her wearing a £3,000 necklace given to her by her 80 year-old 'aunt' [sic], Mrs Pantia Ralli. This was her cousin Arghyro Ralli (née Sechiari) born Sep 1868.
Helen Vlasto (1920-2001) refers to Daphne: they appear to have been presented at court as debutantes in the same year, 1939. Winner of Country Life horse trophy at Burley (sic).
Katherine D Rodocanachi [18 Princess Court, Bryanston Place] appears on the 1945 UK electoral register, St Marylebone parliamentary division, Tower Hamlets county/borough; 1946, 1947, 1948 St Marylebone/Westminster.
Katherine Daphne Waite, 33 Montagu Sq., London W.1., daughter Nicola Windsor Waite, 7, b. 31 Dec 1951 [an error] and Mary Melita Rodocanachi, b. 21 Mar 1896, same address, arrived Southampton, England from Durban, South Africa, 13 Feb 1959 aboard the Pendennis Castle.
Residence, England: 1975, 11 Gloucester Place Mews, W1, London; 1985, Shaftesbury, Dorset.
1921 Census Of England & Wales includes: Paul Harold Rodocanachi, b. 1893, Kensington, London; Mary Melita Rodocanachi, b. 1896, Paddington; Catherine Daphne Rodocanachi, b. 1920, Paddington; for a household in Paddington, London.
The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address Chyngton House, Seaford, Sussex, lists Katherine Rodocanachi, b. 17 May 1920, Single, Spinster.
Christened:
God-parents: Theodore and Aikaterini Sechiari.
Died:
Death of Katherine Daphne Waite reported in The Times [London], Feb. 10, 2011 and The Telegraph on-line.
Buried:
Funeral at the Church of St John the Baptist, Cherington on 11 Feb., 2.30 p.m.
Catherine married Capt. Nigel Windsor (Percival) Waite on 27 Nov 1948 in Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, Westminster, London, England UK. Capt. (son of Percival Clarence Windsor (Nuthaniel) Waite and Katherine Taylor Tait) was born on 25 Aug 1924 in Galashiels, Selkirk, Scotland UK; died on 17 Feb 1994 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1920 - 2011 (90 years)