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Hi Gonzalo

Seems they are unrelated. Sorry. I now know that:

Edgar William Frederick Ripley was the son of Edgar Hue Ripley and Bella Maud Davies. He was born on 14 April 1890 and baptised on 29 July 1891.

At the time of his son’s baptism, Edgar Hue Ripley was employed as a cable operator at Chorrillos. By 1894, however, he had moved to Santa Elena on the coast of south western Ecuador.

Thanks for getting back to me, and good luck with your research

William

Susan please check your Private Messages - I will let you have my email address there - and then we can correspond privately off-forum.

Cheers
William

Just to bring the story up to date ...

Edgar Hue RIPLEY was born in Clapham in 1864. He was employed as a cable operator in Chorrillos in Chile when his son was christened in 1891. He died, aged 29 years, in Liverpool, “the day after his arrival from South America”, on 23 February 1894.  He was married [where/when?] to Bella Maud DAVIES (she was born in Birmingham in Warwickshire in 1868. She was married [2] in Chile on 9 June 1895 to William Sydney Bartlett. When the national census of England was taken at the end of March 1901, she was living at No. 65, Cecile Road, Hornsey in Middlesex with her second husband, three children and a domestic servant.)

Edgar Hue and Bella had a son:

Edgar William Frederick RIPLEY, born in Chile, South America on 14 April 1890 and christened on 29 July 1891 ... see Revista del Instituto peruano de investigaciones genealógicas.

William

The Dentists Act was passed in 1921.  It permitted unqualified dentists to register, provided they were over the age of 23 years, and that dentistry had been their principal means of livelihood in five out of the last seven years.

Leonard Charter Starte was registered under the new Act on 11 July 1922.  He was issued with certificate of registration no. 15075. The description and date of his qualification were given simply as “Dentist, 1921”. His address was again shown as “203, Wells Road, Knowle, Bristol.”

A subsequent debate in the Irish Free State parliament gave some background:

In "1921 steps were taken by the British Government to try and regularise the position in regard to persons practising dentistry, and that a register was then compiled of persons then termed “non-qualified,” or persons who had not got the necessary degrees and who had not passed an examination in a university or recognised college for dentistry.  Every person who could prove that for a number of years he had been engaged in the practice of dentistry was admitted to the register. Such persons were entitled, because of their qualifications through the practice of dentistry, although they had not the necessary degrees, to go on the register in 1921." (http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0010/S.0010.192803140006.html)

William

Thanks, Loo

I have sent them an enquiry.  If and when I hear from them I will let you know.

William