Emma Datlen - Source 2
Extracted from "Discourse on the origin and history of the name Datlen”
in what appears to be the fourth page of the Robert Terry Family Tree.
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His[1] sister Emma, a teacher, went to Paris after a broken love affair, and entered the service of the Grand Duke Paul of Russia[2] and was Governess Tutor to his childen - was seen by writer[3] as a boy of 11 years when she came on holiday to Dover 1911, and told stories of life in St. Petersburg in palace of 300 servants, the huge Siberian estates of the family, and her travels on the Great Trans-Siberian Railway. The estates were overrun by Bolsheviks in the October 1917 revolution, and it was in 1921 that she was landed from a cargo boat from Russia, at Newcastle, her sufferings impaired her mind, but she could say was of Dover, and the police brought her to Rober Elgar (her brother's) house in Limekiln Street, and unable to take care of her due to her mental state went to St. Augustine's Hosptital and died there in 1921.
Great Aunt Emma did relate some stories of her sufferings to her niece Emma Jane Datlen (Stevens) the high cost of soap in Russia and huge number of roubles to purhase it, etc.
About 1930 I met prince Obolensky (Wiaskemski family) who also knew my father before me on the channel boats - later he told me nothing was known after the estates were overrun. the mother of Prince was Princess Wiaskemski and when crossing channel prior to 1914 was always cared for by my father. Prince Oblenski was in French Air Force 1914-1918.
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References:
[1] Robert Elgar Datlen's
[2] Uncle of the Tsar Nicholas II
[3] Robert Terry Datlen | Frederick | Robert Elgar
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