Ilminster Surgeon & GP

[Forfarian]

Thank you. I was not aware of bathbmd. Much appreciated.

[DRH123]

I am pretty sure that the younger Eleanor, Margaret Wyllie and Editha are the daughters of William Francis' brother John by his wife Eleanor Martha Wyllie, who died in 1845.

All were baptised at Ilchester by John Bondfield and Eleanor Martha FRANCIS, as well as a second Margaret in 1845. Eleanor is recorded as born in Paris.

http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/SearchResults.pl?RecordType=Baptisms&RecordID=4879086
http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/SearchResults.pl?RecordType=Baptisms&RecordID=4879133
http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/SearchResults.pl?RecordType=Baptisms&RecordID=4879195
http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/SearchResults.pl?RecordType=Baptisms&RecordID=4879216

David

[Forfarian]

Thank you very much, David.

[Dave Jones]

Editha, second daughter of late Dr John Francis, Ilchester, Somerset, married Thomas Greene, only son of John Greene of Millbrook, County Kildare, on 15th April 1865 in Dublin.

[Forfarian]

Wow! Thank you, Dave Jones.

Armed with that one snippet and an itchy mouse finger, I now know that Editha had four of a family, died in 1876 and was buried in Dublin. Her widower remarried in 1884 and died in 1901, also buried in Dublin.

Their eldest son John Francis Greene, died in New South Wales in 1899; their daughter Editha Greene studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin from 1885 to 1890, and eventually died unmarried in Norwich in 1936; their son Thomas Westland Green inherited his father's estate and was still unmarried in 1911; and their son Arthur became an ophthalmic surgeon and practised in Norwich. He married Wilhelmina Webb Winslow and they had a son and a daughter; the latter married Cecil E V Ryan in Norwich in 1935. Wilhelmina died in Norwich in 1962.

I have yet to find death details from Thomas Westland Greene or Arthur Greene. I wish I could still access the Irish Times online!