Olive Vivian Trainor was a tall, slim woman with auburn hair, a beauty spot meticulously placed on her right cheek and an air of authority that was inbred from her Irish and, at times, fiery background, born on the 22nd of September 1896 in Teddington, Middlesex.
Little is known of her father; Patrick Edward Trainor ( "THE WALMER SHOOTING CASE", ) he was of Irish origin, her mother was Marion Shum, grand-daughter of George Shum Storey of Arcot Hall, Northumberland.
The Trainor's appear to have provided a privileged upbringing for their children, Olive went to school at Roedean, Brighton.

They had five daughters, Constance (Chloe), Emily, Phyllys, Cecil and Olive. Olive being the youngest was affectionately nicknamed baby.

Cecil; was the most amiable, wandering through life with a gentle disposition.

Phyllys; She married a Major Dixon who spent the 1939/45 war years sitting on German unexploded bombs in London defusing them.

Chloe; thrived in the London social circuit mixing with high society, she took to the stage where she used the name Chloe O'Hara.

Olive went to Roedean school, Brighton where she was educated and fully prepared for her future as the wife of Henry Keddey Fletcher whom she married when she was 17yrs. Keddey was a successful businessman, his family owned the ship repair company; Fletcher Son and Fearnall Ltd, Union Docks, Limehouse.

The Fletchers had two daughters followed; Patricia (Pat) Marion Collingwood Fletcher in 1917 and Barbara Pamela Fletcher in 1920, Olive doted on her daughters, she was a loving dutiful wife and mother.
 

Olive.

Pat and Barbara.

Olive and her daughters on the
beach at Hove.

By 1924/5 Olive had met Wilfred H.J Wreford who went by the name of Anthony (Tony) Joynson-Wreford they started an affair which ultimately ended their respective marriages.

Olive took her daughters with her to live in London but later she was to lose custody of them and it seems she never saw them again, although she kept a keen eye on them from a distance.
Olive's photograph album contained a photograph of Pat's marriage to Edward Asa Thomas in 1940 and one of Pat with her baby daughter Antonia born in 1943.



Pat and Edward Asa Thomas.
Pat with baby daughter Antonia.

Olive was captivated with Tony he was dashing, exciting and well connected socially. Tony was involved in aviation, car racing and also owned race horses.
They married in 1926 in Paris at the British Consulate.
The marriage was not a success, in 1927 a son was born: Anthony Patrick (Pat) Joynson-Wreford, shortly after they separated and later divorced, Olive left for America taking her son with her and letters of introduction from friends in England, she intended to take Hollywood by storm. When they ship arrived in New York, Olive was not allowed to disembark as she had no Immigration Visa, she was unable to return to England as she did not have sufficient funds to purchase a ticket, they were deported to the nearest British Protectorate; Bermuda.

Eventually Olive and Pat were able to enter America, where they remained until 1938 only returning to London when the threat of War was looming with Germany.

Olive received a monthly income from Keddey as part of of her divorce settlement, on her return to London she negotiated to have this paid as a one off payment and with this she opened a beauty salon in Knightsbridge; "Madame Olive."
Olive met Major. George Stephenson shortly after her return to London, she did not want to marry again but agreed to change her name by deed poll to Olive Stephenson, they set up home in a rented house on the Thames at Church Island, Staines.

Olive in South Africa.
 Over the next four decades Olive was to travel the Globe, she opened a Marriage Bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was joined by Pat who was to find success on the stage in South Africa followed with a career on Zambian /Rhodesian television.

Pat settled in Glasgow working for Scottish Television.
Olive followed him there and she settled in to retirement in Glasgow where she was to remain until her death in August
1980 aged 84yrs.
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Olive at the entrance to St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.


Olive(aged 82yrs) and Pat at Lomond Castle in 1978.