Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
In 1948 she started the Carol Bateman school of dancing, which is still in business today: http://www.carolbatemanschool.com/about-the-school.html
There are a couple of threads about her on the Stanley Camp discussion list:
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1947
1940s
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Lily Carolyn Howell/Bateman/nee/?King 16 Dec 1900 - 9 Dec 1986
Marriage Lily Carolyn King 22 to Robert Wallace Bateman 28 19 Dec 1922 Chorlton
Passenger List London to Hong Kong
Mrs Lily Bateman age 22 address in UK 22 Wilton Road Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Passenger List 1934 Southampton to New York
Lily C Bateman 34 married born London Last known residence Shanghai
Previous marriage?
Marriage Robert Wallace Bateman to Dorothy Mary Opie 1936
Passenger List November 1945
Carolyn Howell 44 address in UK 153 Windmill Lane Greenford Middlesex
Passenger List April 1946 Southampton to Hong Kong
Hargreaves Howell 45 Engineer Army Officer address in UK 153 Windmill Lane Greenford Middlesex
Lily Carolyn Howell 45 housewife
Probate Calendar 1987
HOWELL Lily Caroline otherwise Carolyn otherwise Lily Carolyn of 42 Head Lane Walton Norwich died 9 December 1986
1945 Stanley Camp Mention
Carol Bateman was a dance teacher in Shanghai before coming to Hong Kong. She taught Greek dancing and Russian style ballet originally, but when she heard about the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) system, which began in the 1920s, she changed to that. She was interned in Stanley Camp during the war.
She gets a mention in The Yip Family of Amah Rock during her time in Stanley Camp when mention is made of the British sense of humour and determination to make the best of things during the war and keep folk cheerful:
"Carol Bateman wrote and produced a ballet. Tears of mirth ran down the cheeks of camp audiences as big-framed Europeans solemnly pirouetted in tutus contrived from mosquito netting."
After the war Carol Bateman set up her Dance School in 1948.