YOUNG, Pamela Cameron

1905 - ?

Pamela Louise Cameron Young was born at Ipswich on 3 February 1905, elder daughter of Dr Alister Cameron Young (1879-18 January 1956), M.R.C.S., and his wife Gertrude Septima Devey (1889-24 January 1952), daughter of Septimus Devey, an ironmonger of Market Harborough, who married at St Mark's Church, South Audley Street, London on 5 January 1904. As Pamela Cameron Young, she exhibited at the Ipswich Art Club from 'Brightwell', 1 Rushmere Road/Woodbridge Road, Ipswich in 1927, 'Pencil Sketches', at that time her father had his clinic at 89 Berners Street, Ipswich. Pamela married at Ipswich in 1928, Sydney Leo Gregory Pope (27 March 1897-3 November 1980), then a flight-lieutenant in the RAF, and their daughter Felicity Mary was born at Ipswich in 1929 and a son Michael A E was born at Andover in 1933. In 1939, Pamela was living at The Old Vicarage, Hungerford, Berkshire with her younger sister Miss Mollie G Cameron Young (14 May 1907-) and in 1947, together with children Felicity Mary 17 and Michael 14, they were staying with organic farming pioneer Lady Eve Balfour (16 July 1898-16 January 1990) at Edinburgh House, Theberton, near Aldeburgh, Suffolk before they sailed for Canada. Her husband served his working life in the Royal Air Force and was decorated for gallantry before retiring with the rank of Air Commodore in 1946. Sometimes her maiden name is hyphenated Cameron-Young