Glimpses of the past

Reggie DeVaulle had a life on the fringes of London and New York High society. I imagine that his relatively well to do background and education would have allowed him a degree of access which perhaps he craved. However when his fall from grace came he appears to have fallen out of the public record all together.

There are however some intriguing glimpses of his life through the census records for 1891 as a child in Guernsey Then in the 1901 and 1911 censuses as a young man in London.

The 1891 census of the Channel Islands sees Reggie 'aged 10' living in the wonderfully named 'Sans Ennui',St. Aubin, Jersey with his Maternal Grandmother Betsey Devaulle aged 83 and Aunt Elise Manual aged 43. Both women were widowed and 'living on her own means'.

It appears the house still existed in 1912 when it was rented to Arthur Hellyer, a well known Jersey Horticulturalist until the outbreak of the war.

St. Aubin Early 20th Century

I don't yet know why Reggie was separated from his family at this time. Perhaps his father had returned to foreign service and Reggie was to be schooled at home in Jersey.