Born at 83 Boulevard du Bouscat, Bordeaux
Moved to England at start of the 1914-18 war
Lived briefly in Great Totham, Essex, then in London
Lived in Geneva Road, Brixton, London in 1920s
Worked as a French-English shorthand typist
Married in the church of St Matthew, Brixton
Lived at 2 Appach Road, Brixton from 1927
Left London for Bromley in Kent about 1959
(living in Sandford Road then in Park Farm Road)