Talk:Darrell Fancourt

Name
While "David Levinson" sounds plausible, the "Memories" site is generally less reliable than the "Who Was Who" site. See also http://french.imdb.com/name/nm0266694/. -- Ssilvers 03:42, 12 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Since Ssilvers wrote the above, corroborative detail has come to light confirming what he says. As well as UK official records (census, birth, marriage and death certificates, and army records, detailed in the notes to the main article), "Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson" is also confirmed by The Times ("Latest Wills", 19 November 1953, p. 12) and the official British government journal, The London Gazette, (Issue 39863, 26 May 1953, p. 20). Sir Henry Wood, who taught both Fancourt and Fancourt's mother and was a friend of Fancourt's father, also gives the name as Leverson: see Wood (bibliographical details in the main article) pp. 114 and 378.


 * Do we think it is of any general interest that though Fancourt's parents were married in a synagogue (and Mrs Leverson's relations were big wheels in synagogue circles of the late 19th century) they nevertheless had the boy baptised in the Church of England five years after he was born? Fancourt also married in an Anglican church (with his widowed mother in attendance) but that is, perhaps, less remarkable. I have chapter and verse, if we think any of this worth adding. — Tim riley (talk) 17:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I think it is all relevant, including the baptism. Please do add the necessary info and refs. According to anecdotes at the Memories site and elsewhere, Fancourt obviously felt some connection to the Jewish faith in later years, but it would be news to many that he was a practicing Anglican. This all seems quite interesting, I think. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:05, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

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