Louisa (Ryall) Stratton

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1. Louisa Ryall's husband Francis Ryall died before she married John Stratton.

   After the death of her husband, Francis Ryall, she married the manager of her Limbe Hotel, John Stratton. They built a new establishment, Ryall's Blantyre Hotel, which opened in 1922.

2. Telegraph 14 Aug 2002: Rosemary's grandmother Louisa Stratton ran Ryall's hotel (identity = Louise/Louisa Ryall after remarriage).

   She was born Rosemary Jean Kirkcaldy on January 15 1929 at Blantyre in Nyasaland (now Malawi), where her grandmother, Louisa Stratton, ran the famous hotel, Ryall's

3. Named as daughter of Louise Ryall in My Better Half and Me (2009) — mother locked as louisa-ryall-stratton 2026-10-14.

   Rosemary's grandmother, Louise Ryall, had left England in 1898, the first white woman to travel alone to Nyasaland ... After the First World War, her daughter Phyllis married Robert Hunter Kirkcaldy, a Scottish soldier, who had served in Africa. He became a successful businessman ... They had three children, Robert, Catherine and Rosemary Jean, who, on 15 January 1929, was born into a world ...

4. Phyllis Nyasa Ryall's own 1922 marriage register (LMA, St Laurence Brondesbury p.121 entry 242) names her father Francis Edward Ryall, builder and contractor; mother Louise Ryall per Ackland 2009 (already locked).

   Entry 242, St Laurence Brondesbury, 7 Aug 1922: Robert Hunter Kirkcaldy, 26, Bachelor, Commercial Agent; Father's Name and Surname: Robert Taylor Kirkcaldy; Rank or Profession of Father: Baker and Confectioner. Phyllis Nyasa Ryall, 22, Spinster; Father's Name and Surname: Francis Edward Ryall; Rank or Profession of Father: Builder and Contractor.

5. Louisa Ryall's husband Francis Ryall died before she married John Stratton.

   After the death of her husband, Francis Ryall, she married the manager of her Limbe Hotel, John Stratton.