Notes for: Patience Isabel Pingo Bucknall
In 2016 Simon Galpin wrote:
Regarding my Grandmother PIP as we called her, she moved to Cambridge along with my aunt Angelica in the early 70's from London. They bought a house in Hartington Grove off the Cherry Hinton Road and lived there happily till my grandmother passed away in 1974. She was buried in Trumpington churchyard principally because it was the local church of her niece Hermione Wright (nee Jones) and her husband Graham F Wright. He was a prominent eye surgeon at Addenbrookes and had died of cancer several years before PIP moved to Cambridge. He was already buried in Trumpington church yard so she felt it would be nice when her time came to be buried in the same place as him. Her wishes to be buried there were carried out and there she is to this day. I do manage to get up to Cambridge to tend her grave from time to time and have had some restoration done to it recently.
My grandmothers second marriage was to Wing Commander Harold Featherstone Luck on 30th April 1935 at Valletta, Malta. The Bucknall family has had relations living in Malta for many years and I think my grandmother was visiting them when Harold and she met. He was posted there during the war as a Squadron Leader and indeed it may have been there that he was awarded his OBE. Anyway, I don't think PIP was out there too long with the fight that was going on for Malta. He survived and returned to England a Wing Commander and they settled down in London for a few years. I don't know the details but the marriage did not work out and they must have divorced at some point. I have no information about the end of his career either. I didn't really know my grandmother or aunt till I was about fourteen so I am a little sketchy on the 50's and early 60's. I do remember meeting Harold a few times in London so I think their separation was amicable