By Anon
When Lawrence and and his first wife Nancy moved to Corfu, Louisa and the whole family followed them.
Lawrence was a writer.
Lawrence divorced Nancy in 1947 and married Eve Cohen.
Their daughter Sapho killed herself in 1985.
Sappho’s journals relate that Sapho had a sexual relationship with her father.
Lawrence was married four times.
Gerald Durrell
Leslie was the one who loved guns and hunting.
He had a baby with his mother’s Greek maid.
The maid was dumped in a home for fallen women.
The child never got to know his father.
Leslie bought a fishing boat, which sank in Poole harbour before its maiden voyage.
Later, Leslie was involved in various ‘semi-criminal enterprises’.
None of Lelie’s siblings attended his funeral.
Gerald Durrell surrounded by kids, on the Island of Jersey.
In 1951, aged 26, Gerald married Jacquie Wolfenden, whom he met while dating three different ballerinas.
In 1964, Gerald opened the Durrell Wildlife Park on the island of Jersey, an island linked to child abuse rings.
By 1978, Gerald and Jacquie were divorced.
Gerald married Lee McGeorge, a 27-year-old zoology student from Memphis.
Lee could not stop Gerald from drinking, and he died, aged 70.
Gerald Durrell.
Gerald’s great grandmother was Mahala Tye from Suffolk.
After the suicide of her first husband, William Durrell, Mahala gave birth to ‘an illegitimate son’.
The biological father of this illegitimate son was Samuel Stearne.
Gerald, the auther of My Family and Other Animals, was thus descended from Samuel Stearne.
Gerald Durrell – The New York Times.