Ellen Kathleen Symonds (née Johnson)

Born: 30 December 1903 in Redruth, Cornwall, England.

Died:  Unknown.

Ellen Kathleen Johnson, better known as "Johnnie," was a teacher at a private school on the South Coast when she first met Vernon Symonds in the 1930s. They were married on 21 November 1935 and it was around this time that the couple purchased Netherwood with the intention of turning it into a guesthouse and residential hotel.

In 1975 "Johnnie" related the following story about Crowley to Rodney Davies:

"Kenneth Grant and I went for a bus ride around Hastings once when he visited,’ she said, ‘and he told me all about Crowley and all the things that he’d learned from him. He said Crowley had told him he could call up the elements. He was then staying in the cottage in the grounds, and Crowley said 'If you come, I’ll show you'. And Crowley had a board, and on it were a piece of metal, a piece of stone, and other different things. I don’t know what happened but Crowley said, 'I’ll call up the elements', and he called up the wind. And it blew right through the cottage and banged all the doors!"