RootsChat.Com

General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Jo New on Wednesday 23 January 08 10:47 GMT (UK)

Title: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: Jo New on Wednesday 23 January 08 10:47 GMT (UK)
help !!





ive found that Charles Rufus Marshall Workman was a pretty important person and was residant commisioner to the british solomon islands 1917 -1921,before that he was at Nauru

he died 1942 where i have no idea, any suggestions, he was 68 when he died

any suggestions to where he could be he was Married to Kate

rgds & ta Jo
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: stanmapstone on Wednesday 23 January 08 10:53 GMT (UK)
According to his obit. in The Times, he died on June 28th 1942, aged 65, at Owmby, Grasby, Lincolnshire. He retired in 1931.

Stan
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: Jo New on Wednesday 23 January 08 10:57 GMT (UK)
WOW !!!!!!! ;D

Thank You Stan for that , thats excellent , there was i thinking he would of retired off to Australia or somewhere, but back to Lincoln where his wife was from

ooh happy now

Best Wishes Jo ;)
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: stanmapstone on Wednesday 23 January 08 11:00 GMT (UK)
He was educated at the Leys School and Christ Church Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1900, and then joined the colonial service. He was in the South Seas for many years , and was in charge of the Australian Expedition which took possesion of the isand of Nauru in WW1. For ten years he acted as Colonial Secretary of the Gambia, and he was awarded the C.B.E. in 1927.

Stan
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: Jo New on Thursday 21 February 08 13:20 GMT (UK)
thanks stan ;)
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: Giles Peace on Sunday 06 August 17 11:23 BST (UK)
Quote from: stanmapstone on Wednesday 23 January 08 11:00 GMT (UK)
He was educated at the Leys School and Christ Church Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1900, and then joined the colonial service. He was in the South Seas for many years , and was in charge of the Australian Expedition which took possesion of the isand of Nauru in WW1. For ten years he acted as Colonial Secretary of the Gambia, and he was awarded the C.B.E. in 1927.

Stan


Hi Stanmapstone,


I wish to thank you for information about Charles Rufus Marshall Workman.

fyi I had been using this website since 2012 as Lourdes96 but lost access to such account thereafter.

I am continuing my research on Charles Rufus Marshall Workman, hence I would appreciate if you could assist me please.

Thank you.
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: Flattybasher9 on Sunday 06 August 17 11:59 BST (UK)
Original thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=401719.0

Regards

Malky
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: silvery on Sunday 06 August 17 12:03 BST (UK)
Quote from: Flattybasher9 on Sunday 06 August 17 11:59 BST (UK)
Original thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=401719.0

Regards

Malky

What brought this about - 9 years later !!      Oh I see, the other thread's been resurrected.  Wow.  After so long.
Title: Re: any help plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Post by: Giles Peace on Sunday 06 August 17 22:30 BST (UK)
Quote from: silvery on Sunday 06 August 17 12:03 BST (UK)
Quote from: Flattybasher9 on Sunday 06 August 17 11:59 BST (UK)
Original thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=401719.0

Regards

Malky

What brought this about - 9 years later !!      Oh I see, the other thread's been resurrected.  Wow.  After so long.


I lost access to my Lourdes96 account and back in 2012, computer and especially internet were new technologies!