Florence Edith Entwhistle PILE (née BOND) [1876-1969] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Florence Edith Entwhistle PILE (née BOND) [1876-1969]

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Submitted by Peter Flynn on Mon, 2018-10-01 04:35
Names
Given: 
Florence Edith Entwhistle
Family: 
Pile
Maiden: 
Bond
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1876-11-25
Birthplace (town, state): 
Rathgar, Dublin
Birthplace (country): 
Ireland
Death
Date: 
1969-09-10
Cause of death: 
Unknown

Married Arthur George Pile (Canonbury, London) 1903-08-22 and emigrated to Hong Kong. Left him and emigrated to Canada 1924 with their youngest son 

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Submitted by annpake on Sat, 2018-10-13 20:19.

When she crossed the border she gave her dob as 25 November 1887. She  crossed as Florence Edith Robillard nee Bond Pile

Submitted by Peter Flynn on Sun, 2018-10-14 03:30.

Yes, I have a copy of their several entries and re-entries (obviously well-travelled). She had remarried by this time: Wilfred Robbilard. 

The dob is interesting: her *baptismal* record was done on 11 April 1877 but her dob is given as 25 Nov 1876, which corresponds with the announcement in the newspaper and her gravestone. But her *birth* registration says 26 Nov 1876 and gives *no forenames* (apparently common at the time to delay naming). I have had that entry officially corrected in order to be able to get a certified copy of the birth entry. On her arrival form when she emigrated to Canada (1924-03-04) she gives her age as 39, which would have meant she was born in 1885! By 7 May 1942 when she re-entered the US at Detroit, the form says she was 54, which means 1888. Presumably she wasn't above docking a decade from her age to suit the occasion :-)

 

Submitted by Peter Flynn on Mon, 2018-12-10 03:21.

Newly-discovered scrapbook reveals she didn't exactly leave as we thought. It appears she may have met her second husband [Joseph?] Wilfred Robillard while still in HK, when he visited as a sailor in the British Navy around 1923/4, and then divorced her husband Arthur George Pile and married Robillard, and then left (alone, with her youngest son) for Vancouver, giving on her Canadian immigration docket her final destination of Lake Linden, IL (which was Robillard's birthplace). Quite what he, a US citizen, was doing as a member of the Royal Navy is unknown.