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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3641199" data-attributes="member: 24811">Some discussion [<a href="https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1144755" target="_blank">here</a>] -- may be of interest...?(This suggests in any case that one Iris Dorrie Moreton married one Rupert Edward Darnton [born (von) Schunck -- his father John Edward had the name of the family changed in Darnton in 1915], from whom she had at least two daughters, one of them also named Iris.)Iris Sheila Darnton published her books (<a href="https://pictures.abebooks.com/CARDENBOOKS/22392578839.jpg" target="_blank">An Illustrated guide to the Flowers of Saudi Arabia, 1985</a>; <a href="https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/384/969/869969384.0.x.jpg" target="_blank">Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia, 1999</a>) under the name "Sheila Collenette"; this is also how she is called in her obituary. (Use of the middle name would not be unusual if she shared her first name with her mother.) She is referred in botanical nomenclature as 'Collen.'; plants named after her are called sheilae, collenetteae or collenetteana. Nothing suggests that she would have used 'Iris', or 'Darnton'. She was admittedly presented as 'Miss Darnton' in Flora Malesiana in 1958, despite being said to have married Collenette already, but this may be justified by the fact that, when she collected the specimens that are listed there (1954), she was still single. (These specimens were presumably deposited in the British Museum Herbarium under her maiden name.)The obituary says that she spent some time in Ceylon with her parents after WW2. On the other hand, it doesn't say a single word about birds or ornithology, and certainly nothing about 'her' roller.I think there is a good chance that Mike is right.</blockquote>

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