Annie Gertrude Elin

.Research by Laurence Rostron

Miss Annie Gertrude Elin – owner of Gracefield – 1911 to 1942

Miss Elin was born in 1859 in St. John’s Wood, then in Middlesex. Her father was John Elin who appears to have been born in Jamaica and described himself as a West India Merchant. They lived in 12 Cavendish Road, Marylebone and his family consisted of himself, his wife, 2 sons and 2 daughters. They had 4 servants – a cook, a housemaid, a nurse maid and an under nursemaid

Miss Elin outside Gracefield with a man thought to be her brother