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Messages - peterwimsey

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Kent / Re: Birth look up please , Arthur Hurley born c1882.
« on: Saturday 25 May 19 16:32 BST (UK)  »
others may disagree but I would take him to be the Arthur Hurley on the 1891 census at Copenhagen Place, Limehouse with siblings and parents Benjamin Hurley and Jane (nee Gilbert).

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One Name Studies: T to Z / Re: TWYNAM, All
« on: Sunday 12 May 19 18:00 BST (UK)  »
I am related to a Walter Twynam who emigrated to New Providence Island, Bahamas sometime in the 1870's and married Helena Mary Claridge in about 1878, probably in Nassau - though I would love to know the exact date and location.  Walter died at Nassau, 1917, aged 66.  He farmed land at the eastern end of the island so this could be the origin of the "Twynam Heights" area.

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Inverness / Re: Mary Hughes Green
« on: Friday 22 February 19 07:48 GMT (UK)  »
Mary Hughes Gowenlock married Charles Gibbon Green at Inverness, 30 April 1889.  Charles died in Mexico, 30 July 1899, aged 40.  Mary was a nurse in WW1.  1916 newspapers relate a dangerous escape she and other nurses had from occupied Serbia.  In 1922 Mary married a William Allan in Edinburgh, but as Mary Hughes Gowenlock.  I know nothing about William.  Mary is on the 1939 register, living in Sussex with her spinster sisters Emma and Wiliamina Gowenlock.  Mary died in Chichester, West Sussex in 1957 aged 89 as Mary Hughes Allan.

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Shropshire / Re: Samuel Haynes
« on: Friday 19 August 16 11:17 BST (UK)  »
I expect you will have seen a William Haynes baptised Bitterley 1793, parents Richard & Mary

and a Richard (Richd) HAINS baptised 1787 Bitterley, parents William & Ann

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Armed Forces / Re: 83rd Regiment - Lt Col William Geddes
« on: Thursday 07 April 16 13:05 BST (UK)  »
don't know if this is going to work, but this is the inscription I have been talking about (top of the page)


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Armed Forces / Re: 83rd Regiment - Lt Col William Geddes
« on: Thursday 07 April 16 12:14 BST (UK)  »
thank you for that.  I think this means that either the information on the Ceylon church monument is wrong or there were two William Geddes's in the 83rd Regiment.

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Armed Forces / Re: 83rd Regiment - Lt Col William Geddes
« on: Thursday 07 April 16 08:45 BST (UK)  »
Hello - I was just wondering if anyone had got any further with research of this man.  I believe he died 3 October 1821 at Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).  I think the 83rd were in Ceylon approximately 1817-27.  Apparently there's an inscription to him at St Peter's Church, "Fort" (not sure where that is).  The inscription is reproduced in a book of Ceylon Memorials by John Penry Lewis and gives a tiny bit more biography.  It says he was 58 years old at death, which I have a problem with because it also says he married a daughter of Thomas Summerfield (1767-1833, also of the 83rd regiment).  This would make William older than his father-in-law which seems a bit unlikely to me.  I would think either William was perhaps 48 years old at death or alternatively married a sister of Thomas Summerfield, rather than a daughter.

If William's sister was Jean Geddes (the mother of Andrew Geddes Bain), she married in 1792 in Thurso.

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Armed Forces / Re: Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-80
« on: Tuesday 11 August 15 13:21 BST (UK)  »
oh thanks for that - I have him marrying Naomi Seaward - I suppose if the divorce had gone through she would have reverted to her maiden name, something for me to investigate.  They weren't married for very long.  Naomi died in 1911 aged 42 and Humphrey died in 1913 aged 55.

Thanks again.

later update - a bit of confusion now about Naomi's age.  On the 1911 census Humphrey says she is 42.  At her death later that year she is said to be 49 - and now I find that she married Earnest Erbsloh in 1877 when she would have been only 15 (if born 1862).

further update - I now think she was born in 1859 according to the 1891 census, so the 1911 census is 10 years adrift

none of which has anything to do with the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War !!

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Armed Forces / Re: Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-80
« on: Tuesday 11 August 15 12:58 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for that Garen - no I don't know anything about a scandal.  1903 was the year he married.  Anything at all you can tell me about Humphrey will be most appreciated.  I believe he distinguished himself in the Boer War too.

Many thanks

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