Is Eileen Dunne still alive?

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  1. Emanuel1940

    Emanuel1940 Member

    Is Eileen Dunne - the young girl photographed by Cecil Beaton during the Blitz - still alive? She would be about 79 now if she was.

    Many thanks for answers in advance.

    Daniel.
     
  2. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Hi Daniel

    A little more info may be necessary to ascertain which Eileen Dunne (or possibly Aileen) you are referring to, after all she may have for example, married, which throws other factors into the system ;)

    TD
     
  3. Owen

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  4. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Thanks Owen

    2 births for 1936 (if thats correct)
    Eileen C Dunne Apr-May-Jun 1936 Liverpool South Lancashire

    Eileen M Dunne Jan-Feb-Mar 1936 Prescot Lancashire


    1 death for an Eileen Dunne born 1936 but never married
    Eileen Dunne 1936 Jul 1999 Liverpool Lancashire


    Don't know if more info is out there??
    TD
     
  5. Pete Wood

    Pete Wood Member

    Interesting one, this. If you scoure the web, this young victim is described as being Eileen Dunn, as well as Dunne. On some sites, she was injured up North, while other sites have her as being in Ormond Street Hospital (a victim of the London Blitz). Some give her age as 3 3/4, while others just say 3.

    I have checked my London air raid casualties - and there is no one by that name (or variant). The closest is Eileen Dunkin, injured in the V weapons campaign.

    So I checked the FreeBMD records. The ONLY one that stands out, to me, is Eileen Dunne, who had a Mother with the maiden name of Leahy. That leads to a marriage between Michael Dunne and Eileen M Leahy.

    In the 1939 Records, the family were living in Bootle, Liverpool. There are too many Eileen Dunne's, to work out a marriage, though.

    Here's the good news. Eileen has a younger sister, called Norah. She married a man called James P McShane. That is much easier to research. James is still living in the Merseyside area (postcode L10 7LY). I think contacting him, or Norah's children, is your best bet.

    Hope this is the right Eileen, and wishing you luck in finding her eileendunne.jpg
     
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  6. PaulSE7

    PaulSE7 New Member

    This description accompanied the photo in a 1986 exhibition of Cecil Beaton's photos at the Barbican. The description may also have accompanied the photo in Life magazine.

    It describes a "North England village". However, being wartime and potentially to help the propaganda, it may be that she lives in a city but a village has more impact.

    I'd love to know more about her and what happened to her.
     

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  8. ARPCDHG

    ARPCDHG Member

    Journalists often can get names wrong if the name is asked for and spoken phonetically - they still do. The other possibility is that this young girl's name is a pseudonym to protect her identity. She may also have moved abroad soon after the war, which would further hamper tracing her.
     
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