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MAXIMILIAN FRANK SIMON Spouse: CORNELIA GEORGINA St. LEGER
Parent/s: Maximilian and Eleanor Serena (Engleheart) Simon. Parent/s: Captain and Mrs St. Leger of Berry Farm, Clayhanger, Tiverton, Devon.
Born: 30 January 1848, Lee, Kent.
Baptised 28 February 1848, St. Margaret, Lee, Kent.		 Born: May 1851, Paris, France.
Married: 6 August 1872, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Married: 6 August 1872, Spanish Town, Jamaica.
Died: 17 June 1902, buried Radipole, Weymouth, Dorset. Died: 19 May 1923, Spa House, Nottington, Dorset, buried Radipole, Weymouth, Dorset.
Occupation: Physician and Surgeon. Occupation:
Notes: 1881 census, Maximilian Frank, Cornelia Georgina and their son Maximilian St. Leger were with their widowed Grandmother Matilda Simon at 10 The Paragon, Blackheath, London.
1901 census, at 6 Alexandra Terrace, Madron, St. Peter's, Newlyn, Cornwall.

SEE BIOGRAPHY		 Notes: 1871 census, Cornelia was a French Governess at a Ladies' College (Principal Anne Sykes) at Cumberland Lodge, St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon.
It is recorded in the family notes that in about 1885 Cornelia adopted the Christian names of Constance Mainwaring, she appears on the 1901 census as Constance M.
Source: Family notes and Biography.
1881 RG11/0729 F4 P1.      1901 RG13/2253 F17 P25.		 Source: Family notes.
1871 RG10/2089 F41 P7.

Maximilian Frank and Cornelia Georgina had three sons and one daughter:-
SOURCE: Family notes, GRO, census as noted above and below.

The Sons:-

COL. MAXIMILIAN St. LEGER SIMON, C.B.E., born 20 March 1876, Malacca, Straits Settlements.
Baptised 28 March 1876, Malacca.     Died March qtr 1951, Westminster dist 5c 556.
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JOHN WELLESLEY SIMON M.R.C.S., born 30 January 1879, Singapore.
1881 census RG11/2170 F76 P5, with Aunt, Matilda Simon, at "Holwood", St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon.
1901 census, with parents, Unmarried, age 21, Medical Student.
John Wellesley died 1924, in Durban, South Africa.
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PERCY RALPH SIMON born 17 September 1887, Singapore.
1891 census RG12/1042 F103 P18, age 3, boarding with Percy and Maud Myatt at 3 Eden Villas, Denzil Road, Willesden, Middx.
1901 census RG13/46 F10 P11, School boarder, age 13, St. Paul's, Colet Court, Hammersmith.
1911 census RG14/34973 P1, Percy, age 23, Lieutenant R.M.A., on HMS Triumph in the mediterranean.
Percy married his first cousin  AVIS YARBOROUGH SIMON  September qtr 1916, Christchurch dist 2b 1380.
From the London Gazette 5 December 1916,
 "Capt. Percy Ralph Simon, super., is absorbed in estabt, vice Hudleston, promoted. 28th Nov. 1916"
Percy died March qtr 1946, Surrey N.E. dist 2a 191, aged 58.
Avis died April 1987, Yeovil, Somerset, dist 23 1505, aged 94.

The Daughter:-

ELEANOR BEATRICE SIMON born 13 October 1877, Singapore.
1881 census RG11/2170 F76 P5, with Aunt, Matilda Simon, at "Holwood", St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon.
1891 census G12/1359 F98 P28, age 13, pupil at Essex House Ladies' School, High Road, Woodford, Essex.
1901 census, with parents, Unmarried, age 23.
Married June 1902, St. George, Hanover Square, London, to Captain CHARLETON WILLIAM GORDON
14th West Yorkshire Regiment, Chinese Regiment and 5th Northumberland Fusiliers.
After becoming a Brigade Major, Charleton Gordon was killed in France in 1914.
There was one son, Charleton Lochinvar Gordon, born 17 April 1905, Kensington, London,
who died in December 1993 at Weymouth, Dorset.  Charleton Lochinvar had taken the surname of Gordon-Steward.

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