Eileen Teresa McNicholas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Film Extra
• Occupation: Headmistress
• Occupation: Interpreter
• Occupation: School Teacher
• Probate: 27 Sep 1987, Llandaff, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

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Died:
Eileen Teresa McNicholas was born on 18 April 1910 in Chester, England, eighth of nine children to Bridget and John McNicholas, a chandler.

After leaving school, she went to New York in 1929 during Prohibition and studied composition under American composer Aaron Copland at the Juillard. She returned to London and studied Drama at RADA. During that time she worked as a film extra at Denham Studios.

Subsequently, she trained to be a Montossori teacher in Hampstead. She then worked for the British council in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. After leaving Spain, she became a travelling companion and interpreter for Dr Montossori before taking up headship at Victoria College during the Second World War.

Subsequently, she married naval commander and civil engineer Franc Stewart Gumley and they lived in Bombay, Calcutta and Karachi. At the time of partition, she survived the murder trains between India and the newly formed Pakistan under the pseudonym of "Amiti Mulobhoy".

In 1954, she returned to England where she later gave birth to her daughter Frances. Finally she worked as a teacher at St Augustine's Priory teaching Music, English and History.

Eileen McNicholas died on 12 September 1987 aged 77.

Eileen married Franc Stewart Gumley on 5 Feb 1946 in Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. Franc (son of John Tait Gumley and Jane Gray Anderson) was born on 8 Oct 1900 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK; died on 8 Aug 1981 in Ealing, Middlesex, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Frances J. Gumley

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1911, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK; Dock Labourer

John married Bridget M. McNicholas in 1893 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK. Bridget was born in 1872 in Sligo, Ireland; died in 1964. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]