Neville recalls that when he was about seven years old in Barbados, a strange elderly Englishwoman living on a pension in a remote, sea-battered part of the island told his fortune: she said he would leave Barbados and not return except to visit, that he would be the first in his family to marry, and that he would have two children. He offers this, together with the story of his own naming (told to him later by his mother), as evidence that his life's course was foreseen before he lived it.
Date (happened)
c. 1912
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
The woman is unnamed.
Reasoning
Circa 1912 is a transparent age-based estimate from the complete first-person account, not a publication date; no month or day is asserted.
c. 1912
estimated · possible
Reasoning
In this passage Neville states he was born 'in 1905 the 19th of February' (corroborated by his mother's account of the birth, told to him later) and says the Barbados seer episode happened 'when I was a boy of about seven' -- 1905 + 7 = circa 1912. Confidence is possible because 'about seven' is an approximate age recalled decades later in a 1970 lecture, not a stated calendar date.
Told / reported
1970
estimated
Reasoning
nid 1036 carries two doubtful legacy catalog claims (1957 and 1968-05-10) already flagged by a prior lane as inconsistent with the transcript, which twice names 1970 as the present year and discusses Bertrand Russell's death (Feb 1970) as recent; that internal, certain claim is used for the told date rather than either superseded catalog claim. (Same lecture already dated this way for hist_event 5957, a different passage in the same transcript.)