Hello Sandra
Herbert Rowland Hamilton was born on the 3rd Sept, 1892 in Walworth, Surrey (south London) the
third of seven sons to Arthur Ainslie Hamilton and Ada Jane Rogers. Arthur was a compositor (printer).
The family lived around the area until just after 1900 when they returned to Hove Sussex where
Arthur had been born and reared. Another child a girl was born in 1904 and Ada then died followed
by the child. The boys were scattered and 4 ended up with a Maskell family where the householder
was a China and Glass repairer (master). Herbert Rowland Hamilton was apprenticed to him and
became a Master. He was still in the area of Hastings Sussex in 1921 with his wife Alice Phyllis Burleigh. He had lost a business due to ill health and went to prison for passing a cheque when he
had no funds but was busking on Brighton Beach to raise them. He then disappears along with Alice.
His brother Lesley Arthur was sent to Canada as a child migrant, fought in WW1 and then brought
back a wife and migrated to the USA where he ended up in Salem, Oregon. He had two uncles in
the US. William Herbert Wentworth Hamilton was a Mining Engineer and registered inventor, who
lived in Parker, Baker, Oregon, California, and Sulpher Springs, Arizona. He had three wives and
at least five children. I have the details of these three people, but I do not have any cemetery
details. I have found about three possible death notices for William H. W. and sent for one but
it was not correct. I can't find the families (other than Lesley) on immigrations material.
Any information gratefully received. Jill in Oz
