Robert FREW globetrotting priest

[AlanBoyd]

The link posted in reply #5 is about a painting bequeathed to a gallery in Christchurch, NZ. Here I summarize the salient facts that are given there.

Kathleen Muriel Kay (1904-1949) was born in Wellington NZ, parents Rev Thomas Kay and Fanny Buckley (married 1902)

Family moved to London in ~1906

Kathleen married George F Gee (1st cousin) in 1936 in Peshawar, later divorced.

Kathleen married AAW in London in 1947.

Kathleen died, Windsor 2 years later.

AAW remarried, and died in 1988.

His intention that the painting should be given to Christchurch in memory of Kathleen was honoured following the death of his second wife in 2012.

[AlanBoyd]

@ reply #44

In the probate, Ada Whiteley’s address is 72 West Cromwell Road, the same address as Albert Adair Whiteley in the 1939 register. (She was not recorded in the register at that address.)

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@ reply #44

In the probate, Ada Whiteley’s address is 72 West Cromwell Road, the same address as Albert Adair Whiteley in the 1939 register. (She was not recorded in the register at that address.)

She is recorded at that address from 1946-50 with Albert Adair and by herself in 1951, then she dies.

John

added, she is possibly in Hertfordshire as Whitely with a dob 22.10.1863, a widow living on private means. Her birth

WHITELEY, ADA  ELLA     mmn SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1863  D Quarter in OF YORK  Volume 09D  Page 8

She was baptised 18th Nov 1863 York.

[brigidmac]

I really want to order the will before JC goes back to Gothenburg but have forgotten how to do it . Can someone remind me please

[AlanBoyd]

Looking at Ada Ella Whiteley’s baptism I see another child being baptised on that day by the same parents – Alice Mary. Her birth is registered in the same quarter as Ada. So Ada was a twin.

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I really want to order the will before JC goes back to Gothenburg but have forgotten how to do it . Can someone remind me please

I think this is the link.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results

John

[MonicaL]

Brigid, given the room for possible confusion on at least the two Robert Frews mentioned (born 1857 in Irvine and 1866 in Glasgow) and mention of Glasgow University, can I make a suggestion?

You could contact the archivists at the University and make enquiries on any records they may have for Robert born 1866. See www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/archivespecialcollections/contact/ancestor/

They used to have these bios online on their site that you could search and view, but that section doesn't seem to be available now which is a pity.

Monica

[brigidmac]

Thanks Monica
JC that's more homework for you

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Brigidmac, are you planning on ordering both will's, Robert's and Ada Ella's. If so please do let us know the outcome. This post has a touch of a John Le Carre' novel about it.

John