![]() Her husband died of a brain tumour in 1928 in Dalhousie, India, when she was 42, and Louisa decided to move her family to England. She did not conform to the views of her time regarding the segregation of social groups. She was unusual for mingling with Indians, more than many colonials, to learn of local spirits and cuisine. Louisa was actively interested in spiritualism and cookery. Louisa was described as an anxious mother, shunning social contact just to be with her children during their formative years. The surviving children were Lawrence (Larry), Leslie, Margaret (Margo), and Gerald (Gerry). Their second child, Margery Ruth, was born in November 1915 and died from diphtheria in April 1916. ![]() ![]() They had three sons and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Together, they travelled all over India for Lawrence's engineering work. In India, she met and married Lawrence Samuel Durrell, an English engineer also born in India. ![]() Her father, George Dixie, was the head clerk and accountant of the Ganges Canal Foundry. Louisa Florence Dixie was born in 1886 to an Anglo-Irish Protestant family in Roorkee, India, where her family were colonials in the years of the British Raj. She was featured in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical Corfu trilogy, which tells about the Durrells' years in Corfu from 1935 to 1939 in a somewhat fictionalized way. She was the mother of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell. Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie 16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was an Anglo-Irish woman born in India during the British Raj. ![]()
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