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Other Countries / Re: Ivy Power birth India - Look up
« on: Tuesday 27 August 13 14:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jennie
Ira Alfred Banks – Death Registered in 1896, Aged 28 (Page 344 Army Returns 1896-1900)
Ira Alfred Banks posted to Madras station, India with the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment arriving on 16 November 1887.  Promoted to acting lance corporal by 31 July 1888 and a lance sergeant (corporal acting as sergeant) at the time of his marriage in 1895.  He had been promoted to sergeant at the time of his death on 9 December 1896.  He died of an abscess of the liver and dysentery at the Station Hospital, Madras. 
Florence and Ira had only the one daughter, Ellen Florence Banks.
My great grandfather, Frederick George Saunders, married Charlotte Kirk, Florence's sister, and was a witness to the marriage of Ira and Florence.
I have a lovely photo of Ira and Florence, probably taken on their wedding day.
Glad that the information was useful.
Lindsey

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Other Countries / Re: Ivy Power birth India - Look up
« on: Tuesday 17 July 12 15:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi
Ivy Ellen Power was the daughter of William Power and Ellen Florence Banks.  Ellen Florence  Banks married William Power on 6 February 1915 in Rawalpindi, Bengal.  Ellen Florence Banks  b 6 October 1896 Madras, was the daughter of Florence Kirk and Ira Alfred Banks.   Ira, unfortunately, died a year after his marriage to Florence Kirk, and she later remarried John Richard Gower again in Madras.  My great grandfather, married Florence Kirk's sister, Charlotte in India.  Florence and Charlotte Kirk, along with a number of other siblings were the children of David Kirk, originally of Lochrutton, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Ellen Rigby, who had been born in India in 1839.
Would love to know of your connection to the family?  According to what I have found I think Ellen Florence and William Power died in the Okehampton, Devon area - is that the case?
Lindsey

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