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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Farelf on Friday 04 March 22 18:54 GMT (UK)
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Currently researching Edith Wentworth Dunbar, out of curiosity.
I am intrigued that at the time of death she was living near Munich, and died in Paris, and probably buried in the United Kingdom
Unable to access ancestry, but would be interested in a copy of;
Divorce Court File: 7057. Appellant: Edith Wentworth Dunbar. Respondent: Charles Gordon...
Any help appreciated.
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Is this her?
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wentworth-2465
You can access Ancestry at most local libraries - check that yours has access
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Yes
Can not get to the library during opening times
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The divorce case was covered in many newspapers at the time. Edith was seeking 'a judicial separation on the grounds of alleged adultery, the Venerable Archdeacon Charles Gordon ...'
Snip attached (courtesy of Ancestry)
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If anyone is interested, the link below will take you to a caricature of Charles Gordon Dunbar
https://www.prints-online.com/caricature-archdeacon-dunbar-anglican-clergyman-14310688.html
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Thank you much appreciated
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Edith is in more than 200 trees on Ancestry, one of them might have some useful facts. Have you considered a trial membership of Ancestry? One tree links to her death in France, from a Paris, France, births, marriages and deaths site. Do not know if Ancestry has exclusive access to it, or how good your French is.
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There is also a probate entry for her
How does she connect to your family history?
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Sorry for the delay, Edith isn't connected to my family, she has a connection to someone buried in Shorncliliffe. Would take ages to find out who and what the connection was now.
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I see from previous threads you are researching Shorncliffe cemetary
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Whoever posted the Cornish Telegraph piece - please could you tell me how I can access the entire article? My grandmother's grandmother, Beatrix, was Edith and Charles' daughter. I am writing a kind of family history. Thank you so much for any help. Lucy Weir
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Is this her?
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wentworth-2465
You can access Ancestry at most local libraries - check that yours has access
Is this her?
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wentworth-2465
You can access Ancestry at most local libraries - check that yours has access
I think that my tree may be distantly linked to names in the link that Carol posted
Fisher, Cox, Reeve.
My GP in Windsor in the 1960s was a Dunbar, as was our neighbour when we used to live next door to New Lodge on the Drift Road in the 1960.
Also links with Wallingford.
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Whoever posted the Cornish Telegraph piece - please could you tell me how I can access the entire article? My grandmother's grandmother, Beatrix, was Edith and Charles' daughter. I am writing a kind of family history. Thank you so much for any help. Lucy Weir
Welcome to Rootschat.
You can see lots of reports in different newspapers at the British Newspaper Archive
If you register, you can have three free downloads. After that it requires a sub.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01te7/
Also related to the divorce proceedings someone was accused of perjury (but found not guilty)
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18810502-467
Daughter Sues Father
Daily Mirror
23 March 1909. And other papers
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I see from previous threads you are researching Shorncliffe cemetary
Yes, I have managed to put a name to each grave, there are over 2,000 graves.