Tuesday, October 22, 2019

William Cameron and Margaret Robertson

William Cameron (1790-1850?) and Margaret Robertson (1797-1869)


William Cameron (30) married Margaret Robertson (23) on 19 December 1820 in the parish of Kingussie and Insch, Inverness, Scotland.

Willam and Margaret Cameron's children were Isabella Cameron (b. 1825), James Cameron (b. 1828), Margaret Cameron (b. 1831), Annie Cameron (b. 1833), John Robertson Cameron (b. 1835), Sarah Cameron (b. 1837) and Christina Cameron (b. 1838). 

On the 1841 census, William (44) and Margaret (40) and six of their eight children, James (11), Margaret (9), Ann (7), John (5), Christian and Sarah (2) were living at Lynchat Village in the parish of Alvie in Invernessshire

On 20 December 1848 their eldest daughter Isabella married James McIntosh in the parish of Kingussie and Insch, Inverness.

On the 1851 census, Margaret (54) widow and her four younger children were living at Lynchat Village. It would seem William Cameron passed away by 1851 and he was survived by his wife Margaret, two sons and five daughters. 

Soon after Margaret and her children decided to migrate to Tasmania where Margaret's four brothers and sister had emigrated previously. In 1822, Margaret's brothers John Robertson (27) and William Robertson (24) traveled aboard the passenger ship Regalia to Hobart, Van Diemens Land (later Tasmania) where they were granted 1400 acres near Campbell Town and also took up a large cattle run. Their younger brother James Robertson had arrived earlier and Daniel Robertson joined the Robertson Brothers business by 1833. Their sister Christiana Robertson had arrived too.

In 1855 Margaret's elder brother Duncan Robertson, wife Margaret and eight children were ten of the 360 immigrants that sailed aboard the clipper ship Storm Cloud from Glasgow to Hobart Town, a journey of seventy-one days.

Margaret's brothers, William and John Robertson, were influential in setting up the Port Phillip Association which was established to explore and open up new grazing land around Port Phillip Bay with John Batman leading the first expedition. By the early 1840s William Robertson had taken up land around Lake Colac and by the 1860s had built 'The Hill', a splendid mansion overlooking the lake. [ref: Brothers on farms by Malcolm Robertson]

1854 was a year for weddings in the family! Margaret's second eldest daughter Margaret Cameron married Thomas Henry Chapman at St. James Church, Melbourne on 14 September 1854. Her third eldest daughter Annie Cameron married David Mackay in Victoria and her eldest son James Cameron married Jane McDonald at Collingwood on 19 December 1854.

Margaret's youngest daughter, Christina Cameron married William Bedford Nolan at Melbourne on 18 March 1856 however they were only together for three years when William Nolan, aged 29, sadly died 3 October 1859.

Margaret's second youngest daughter, Sarah Cameron married Thomas Dudley on 9 April 1856 at Kalkallo. Sarah Dudley nee Cameron would reside at Kilmore for the rest of her life.

Sadly, Margaret's younger son, John Robertson Cameron, aged 21, died from severe injuries received by a fall from his horse at the Friend-in-Hand on 5 November 1856.

Margaret had moved to Kilmore by 1861 where she hosted the wedding of Christina to her second husband Louis Magloire Le Nepveu on 10 September 1861.

Margaret's eldest daughter, Isabella McIntosh nee Cameron, died 2 September 1861, aged 36 and was buried at Lancefield Cemetery, Macedon Ranges shire survived by her husband James McIntosh and six of their seven children.

Margaret moved from Kilmore to Bylands, about midway between Wallan and Kilmore, to a house named Swinton.

Sadly in 1869, Margaret's eldest and last surviving son, James Cameron, died 7 April aged 41 years at his residence Spring Vale, Merri Creek.

Margaret Cameron nee Robertson was 72 years old when she died 24 November 1869 at Swinton. She was buried at the Melbourne General Cemetery on 27 November 1869. The funeral notice advised the funeral procession would move from her late residence, Swinton, Bylands, about 9 a.m. passing through Wallan Wallan and Donnybrook to Craigieburn and then at 2 p.m. through Campbellfield and Pentridge to the Melbourne General Cemetery, around a 50 km journey.

Margaret was survived by her daughters Margaret Chapman, Sarah Dudley and Christina Le Nepveu and grandchildren.

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND MARGARET CAMERON
Isabella Cameron (1825-1861) married James McIntosh, 1848, Alvie, Inverness-shire.
James Cameron (1828-1869) married Jane McDonald, 1854, Collingwood, Victoria.
Margaret Cameron (1831-1888) married Thomas Henry Chapman, 1854, Melbourne, Victoria.
Annie Cameron (1833-1869) married David Mackay, 1854, Victoria.
John Robertson Cameron (1835-1856)
Sarah Cameron (1837-1921) married Thomas Dudley, 1856, Kalkallo, Victoria.
Christina Cameron (1838-1906) married 1) William Bedford Nolan, 1856, Melbourne, Victoria. 2) Louis Magloire Le Nepveu, 1861, Kilmore, Victoria.

REFERENCES:
Brothers on farms by Malcolm Robertson, 1 October 2011
https://www.portrait.gov.au/magazines/41/brothers-on-farms

William Robertson (1798-1874) pastoralist
Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1976, by J. Ann Hone.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/robertson-william-4491

Parish of Alvie
https://www.scottish-places.info/parishes/parhistory349.html 

ship Regalia - immigrant ship in 1822
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~tcowley/family/Ships.htm#Regalia

Ship Arrivals from England:
Per Regalia, 70 in number viz. James Ross, Esq., L.L.D. and family, F.J. Lampriere, Esq., Mr Fletcher and family, Mr Smith and family, Miss S A Gresley, Mr Gill, Mr Danvers, Mr Atkinson, Mr Curling and family, Mr Shennan, Mr J Robertson, Mr W Robertson, Mr Evans and family, Mr Seal, Mrs S Presnell and family, Mr Barker, Mr Browning, Mr Westley, Mr Bainton, Mr Casper, Mr Lancester, Mr Perriman, Mr & Mrs Field, and Mr Martinger. [Source: Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser Sat 4 Jan 1823, p. 2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1089828]

SHIP NEWS. On Monday last arrived from England with merchandize, the ship Lusitania, Captain Langdon. This vessel left England some few days before the Malabar, now lying in this port ; and brings 37 passengers, among whom are, John Campbell, Esq. Lady and family, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald McLeod and family, Mrs. Langdon, Mr. George Purcell, Mr. John Rotton, Mr. and Mrs. George Ranken, and Mr. James L. Robertson. 
[source: Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, Sat 3 Nov 1821 p. 2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1089570

Arrival of the Storm Cloud. [Captain James Campbell] This splendid clipper ship arrived from Glasgow on Sunday afternoon, with 360 immigrants, after an unprecedented run of SEVENTY ONE days. 
source: The Tasmanian Daily News (Hobart Town) Wed 29 Aug 1855 p. 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203385237

Monday, October 7, 2019

David White and Elizabeth Gould Tucker

David White (1730-1797) and Elizabeth Gould Tucker (1754-1793)

David White (45) married Elizabeth Gould Tucker (21) on 9 May 1775 at New Jersey, North America.

From his burial memorial, David White was a Scotsman born 1730. He may have been baptised 11 October 1730 at Sorn, Ayrshire to Georg White and Lanet Langwill. Another son Georg White was also baptised at Sorn on 8 June 1840 to Georg White and Janet Langwell. No further details about Georg and Janet have yet been found. A search of White/Langwill burials at the Sorn Churchyard Cemetery found Jean Longwell Thomson 10 Apr 1859 and Thomas White 6 Nov 1874 but no connection has yet been found.

From her burial memorial, Elizabeth Gould Tucker was born 24 December 1754 at New Jersey, North America.

Elizabeth Gould Tucker had inherited from her father's estate, a house and garden in Trenton, New Jersey and £2000 Sterling and at the time of her marriage to David White, the inherited property and money passed to her husband's control. Unfortunately Elizabeth's father's name has not been recorded in the documents so far found.

David and Elizabeth married in May 1775 and they were living in the County of Somerset in New Jersey when Britain's thirteen colonies in North America made their Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776.

Their first son, James Clayton White was born in 1776, probably in New Jersey because David would later give testimony that on 8 December 1776 he went to Trenton and joined the British Army. David would have been caught up in the Battle of Trenton which occurred on Christmas night 1776 when General George Washington led his men against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton.

David was taken prisoner into Morris Town by the American Army and held for six days when he was released on parole. He made his way to New York and departed in January 1777 for Jamaica to a plantation he had purchased in March 1776 from Cornelius Lowe leaving the title deeds and mortgage documents with Mr Skelton in New York. The original mortgage was to Delpratt.

For the next five years (Feb 1777-Feb 1783) David and Elizabeth lived at White Hall, Trelawny, Negril, Jamaica and their family increased with the arrival of George White (1778), John Gould White (18 Jul 1779), David White (1780) and their first daughter Mary White on 4 July 1781.

In February 1783, David and Elizabeth were on passage to England from Jamaica when their ship was intercepted by two Danish frigates and some of their belongings (containing papers and letters) were thrown into the sea. David presented his case to the Royal Commission on the Losses and Services of American Loyalists on 7 October 1783 and gave his address as Stoke Bishop, Westbury parish, near the city of Bristol.

It would seem Elizabeth and David stayed at Stoke Bishop till May 1784 and during that time their baby son, David White, died. On 26 May 1784, their two youngest children John Gould White, aged 4 and Mary White, aged 2, were baptised at St Augustine the less, Bristol, Gloucester, England.

Elizabeth was back at White Hall when their second daughter, Frances White, was born in 1784, followed two years later by Elizabeth Gould White in 1786.

In October 1787 Elizabeth received a bequest from the will of her aunt, Elizabeth Tucker nee Gould (1729-1787) of Trenton. Also named in this will as a niece was Sarah Phillips Margatroyd. Were Elizabeth Gould White nee Tucker and Sarah Phillips Margatroyd sisters?

By October 1788, Elizabeth and David were back in Trenton when their fourth daughter (and eighth child) Sarah White was baptised at St Michaels Church, Trenton, New Jersey. 

Historical events were evolving in newly-constituted United States and by this time, New Jersey had become the third state to ratify the Constitution. It is probable that David and Elizabeth were making plans to leave Jamaica permanently and settle back in England.

In January 1789, Elizabeth and David received a small bequest from the will of Elizabeth's uncle, Samuel Tucker (1721-1789).

Their youngest daughter, Catherine Longville White was born at White Hall, Trelawny, Negril, Jamaica in 1790 and their youngest son, William White, was born in 1791 probably back in England because Catherine and William were baptised at St Augustine the Less, Bristol on 29 January 1792 as can be seen in the entry below (note the clergyman's spelling of Longville as Longueville). On David White's will [Prob11/1299 signed 18.10.1797] is written Catherina Longville White. It is possible the middle name was Longwill after David White's mother's maiden name.



Baptismal record for Catherine Longville White and William White, 29 January 1792.
St Augustine the Less, Church of England, Bristol.

Note the clergyman's spelling of Longville as Longueville.
Source: Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812. Via Ancestry.

However it would not be a long settled family residency in Bristol for Elizabeth who died 4 June 1793, aged 38 years, 5 months and 11 days. She was survived by her husband David (63) and nine children James (17), George (15), John (14), Mary (12), Frances (9), Elizabeth (7), Sarah (5), Catherine (2) and baby William.

David and the children stayed on at their house in College-green, Bristol after Elizabeth's death, though his eldest son, James Clayton White would take over the reigns of the Trelawny plantation in Jamaica.

On 27 November 1797, aged 67, David White died at his house in College-green, Bristol. He was survived by his nine children: James Clayton White (21), George White (19), John Gould White (18), Mary White (16), Frances White (13), Elizabeth Gould White (11), Sarah White (9), Catherine Longville White (6) and William White (4).

A monument for David and Elizabeth was placed on the east wall of east cloister in Bristol Cathedral.




Bristol Cathedral. East wall of east cloister.  A female standing over an urn, resembling the Alleyne monument.  David is buried with his wife Elizabeth.  

"Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Gould White, a Native of New Jersey, North America, who departed this life June 4 1793, aged 38 years, 5 months, 11 days."

"Also Sacred to the memory of David White, Esq Husband of the said Elizabeth, a Native of Ayrshire in Scotland, many years resident in the Island of Jamaica but late of this City.  Who departed this life on the 27th day of November Anno Domini 1797 in the 67th year of his Age leaving behind him to lament his loss Nine Children.

DETAILS ABOUT CHILDREN OF DAVID AND ELIZABETH
James Clayton White (1776-1834) and Rosanna Richards lived at Jamaica.


George White (b. 1778). No further details known.

John Gould White (1779-1851). No further details known.

Mary White (1781-1819) married Edward Collins Wright on 26 December 1808 in Pitsford, Northamptonshire, England. Their second eldest son, William Gaven Wright (1813-1868) emigrated to Australia in December 1852 and was land officer at Rutherglen, Victoria where he died 23 June 1969 aged 55.

Frances White (1784-1827) married William Marlton in 1805 in Jamaica, when William was a Major in the 60th Foot. By 1814 he was Lieut Colonel, HM 1st Batt 60th Foot.

Elizabeth Gould White (1786-1808) died at Brighthelmstone, England on 23 September 1808, aged 22.

Sarah White (1788-1832) married William Gaven on 21 July 1806 at St Margaret, Leicester, England. Sarah died at Bodegroes, the home of her sister Catherine Griffiths and was buried in the Llannor Church cemetery.
Near this Tablet repose the remains of 
SARAH the wife of William Gaven Esqr of Park Square London
it pleased God to release her from her sufferings 
After an illness of many months. 
She died at Bodegroes on the 11th day of December 1832 
in the 44th year of her age. 
This monument is erected by her Afflicted Husband 
In grateful remembrance of her many virtues and amiable qualities.

Catherine Longville White (1790-1837) married William Glynne Griffith on 1 November 1810. Catherine and William lived at Bodegroes, Llannor, Caernarvon, North Wales. Their longest living son was James Glynne Griffith (1820-1887) who emigrated to Moreton Bay in 1854.


Plas Bodegroes, Gwennyd, North Wales.
Georgian, Grade II Listed Building.
Catherine and William's eldest daughter, Catherine died 30 May 1835, aged 23 and was buried in the Llannor Church Cemetery.

Catherine Longville Griffiths nee White died 3 April 1937, aged 47, survived by her husband William and six children. A Memorial to Catherine and her daughter Catherine was placed in Llannor Church.


Underneath 
Are interred the remains of 
CATHERINE ANN 
eldest daughter of William Glynne Griffith Esq re
 of Bodegroes
 and Catherine Longueville, his wife; 
She died on the 30th May 1835 aged 23 years. 
Her amiable disposition and moral excellence 
will ever be a source of soothing remembrance 
to her afflicted fond parents, 
and affectionate relatives and friends, 
whose pious hope is that she now dwells 
in heavenly joy, and moves in eternal glory.

William White (b. 1792). No further details known.

REFERENCE:
Memorial of David White. Read 7th October 1783. The Royal Commission on the Losses and Services of American Loyalists 1783 to 1785, being the notes of Mr Daniel Parker Coke, M.P. one of the commissioners during that period. Edited by Hugh Edward Egerton, Beit Professor of Colonial History in the University of Oxford. Oxford: The Rorburghe Club, 1915. page 6.

Memorials at Llannor Church. From: Gleanings from God's Acre: Within the Hundred of Lleyn and Commot of Eiffionydd. Via Ancestry.

Monday, April 22, 2019

Ray 1945 Dutch activities in the East

The following post relates to my academic research which is documented in my thesis:
Holmes, D. L. (2008). Old company records: The effect of custodial history on the arrangement and description of selected archival collections of business records. Thesis, Master of Science, School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, 2008.  Available at https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/23

If you would like further information about Frederick Charles Danvers and the records he investigated in the 1890s at the State Archives in The Hague, please email me on geniedonna @ yahoo.com.au






Dutch Activities in the East Seventeenth Century Being a "Report on the Records relating to the East in the State Archives in The Hague" with two appendices by Frederick Charles Danvers, Edited with an Introduction by Nihar-Ranjan Ray, University of Calcutta. 1945.

Transcript of the Introduction written by Ray, 1945.


On January 26, 1910, Messers Mackenzie Lyall & Co. of Calcutta held a public auction in which a large number of books, manuscripts and typescripts were put under the hammer.  A portion of the collection was purchased by Mr. Haridas Ganguli, a very keen student of history and a friend and collaborator of the late Mr. Rakhaldas Banerjee, archæologist and historian.  It transpired that the collection contained at least two books bearing the signature of F.C. Danvers, and more important, three typescripts of uniform foolscap size, paper, script and ink, the last two bearing on a slip of paper pasted on their covers their respective title, name of author and date.  They may be described as follows:

1. [63 pp.]  No pagination number.  On the first page at the top runs the title:  Report on the records relating to the East / in the State Archives in the Hague.  Text proper, 45 pp. Appendix I / List of important events in connection with the Dutch in India / during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries [45-55 pp.]  Appendix II / Governore General of Netherlands India [57-63 pp.].  Typing on one page (recto) only.  Writing faint on first and several other pages including the last.  Paper board cover, blank.  Thick cartridge paper bearing water-mark of A. Pirie & Sons / Ld. / Register.  Ink : violet.  No mention of authorship anywhere.

2. A slip of paper containing the title pasted on paper-board cover.  Report / on / India Office Records / by / F.C. Danvers/ - / Appendix / - / 1898 [42 pp.]  Content:  List of Manuscripts in the British Museum relating to India and the East.  On pages 4, 6 and 7 there are entries, one on each page, in inked handwriting, presumably of Danvers himself, that had evidently been indistinct.  Thick cartridge paper bearing watermark of A. Piri & Sons / Ld. / Register.  Ink:  violet.

3. A slip of paper containing the title pasted on paper-board cover.  Report / on / India Office Records / by / F.C. Danvers / - / Appendix / - / 1898 [6 pp.]  Contents:  Papers in the Public Record Office (Colonial Section) relating to India and the East, [p.1]; India, East, [p.2]; Admiralty Records, East India House, [p. 3]; Pepper Purchase and sale of, [p. 3]; Persia, [p. 4]; Correspondence, S. Helena, [p. 4]; Colonial Office Records [p. 6].  Clear writing.  Thick cartridge paper bearing water-mark of A. Pirie & Sons / Ltd / Register.  Ink: violet.

Mr. Ganguli was not slow to realise the importance of the typescripts, and he was persuaded by one of his friends to make a present of them along with some other books he had purchased from the auction to the public library of the Young Men’s Association of Vaidyabati, an old and flourishing village not very far from Calcutta.  There they stood on the shelves until 1920 when Mr. Prabhatchandra Ganguli, a scholar and publicist, then interested in the history of Dutch activities in Bengal, tried to utilise them ; but he eventually gave up the idea, and they again went to rest on the shelves.  In 1940, I happened to visit the Vaidyabati Library and examine its collections when the three typescripts fell to my hands.  The authorities of the Library were good enough to part with them on personal loan to me, and since then they have been lying with me.  It has been proposed that they will eventually be made over as a gift to the Manuscripts Department of Calcutta University Libraries for preservation and use.

A close preliminary study and examination of the typescripts convinced me that they were unpublished works of Danvers, and perhaps even unknown to and unutilised by scholars in the field ; indeed I did not find any reference anywhere to these documents, though it was well known that Danvers had been deputed to the Hague by the India Office for securing for their library transcripts of Dutch Records relating to India and the East, and presumably also to report on them.  True, the first typescript had nowhere any mention of its authorship, but it was clear from the text that there was nothing inherently improbable about Danvers being the author ; on the contrary, the first few paragraphs and the last of the Report left hardly any doubt in this respect.  But before deciding to publish the documents or part thereof I put myself in touch with Dr. S. N. Sen, Director of Archives of the Government on India and wanted to have some more definite information in respect of Danvers and the typescripts in my possession.  Here is the relevant portion of Dr. Sen’s letter, dated 8th July, 1941:

“F.C. Danvers was deputed by the India Office for securing for their library transcripts of Portuguese and Dutch Records on India.  These transcripts are now available in the India Office Library.  Danvers published a brief report on the Portuguese records and two volumes on the Portuguese in India (1894).  The typescript in your possession is unknown to me and so far as I am aware has not been published as yet.  You will however do well to write to Sir William Foster who is likely to be better informed.  Danvers was an official of the India Office and more is likely to be learnt about him at that end than at Delhi.  The transcripts of Dutch records brought by him are also in the India Office.  Eleven volumes of these transcripts were translated into English.  Sir William Foster however told me that these translations might not always be accurate because Danvers did not know Dutch, and the Dutch scholar who collaborated with him was not familiar with Indian history …”

Subsequently in a private letter Dr. Sen advised me to publish the documents for scrutiny by scholars.  But I deferred publication and wanted to contact the India Office and Sir William Foster before going to press.  This I did sometime towards the middle of 1942.  The Superintendent of Records on the India Office informed me with regret that after an exhaustive search no tract had been found of the Report by Mr. F.C. Danvers’ (letter dated 25th August, 1942).  Almost simultaneously came also Sir William’s reply which is all but fully quoted below:

“I know nothing of any report by Mr. Danvers (beyond interim ones) on his researches in the Dutch archives.  His assistant in that task (until 1895) never heard of anything of the kind ; the India Office can not trace one ; and I myself could hardly have been ignorant of such a document.  In any case I can not conceive that such a report be worth publishing.  It must be nearly half-a-century old and would be now quite out of date.  Moreover, Mr. Danvers knew no Dutch and was not well-informed on the subject of Dutch colonial history.

“There remains the mystery how anything written by him could have found its way to a small library in India.  Is it certain that the document really relates to Dutch archives?  Or, can it be the work of some Indian student in London, based upon Mr. Danvers’ general report on the India Office Records, issued in 1888 (can 1898 be a mistake for that date?).  This reports contains sections dealing with Dutch activities in Java, Sumatra and elsewhere.  In that case “State Archives” would refer, not to the Dutch but to the English official records.”

Even a casual reading of the Report published would show that it deals not with English but with Dutch official records in the State Archives in the Hague.  And since it is so, the Report is more concerned with Dutch colonial activities in the Archipelago than with India proper, and India in the Report more often than not stands for the Dutch colonies in the East in general but their colonial settlements in the Southern Seas in particular.  Certain Dutch publications relevant to the subject have also been utilised and largely drawn upon.  The documents examined and utilised are the most important ones in the Hague Rijksarchief and are mentioned in the very first few paragraphs of the Report.  Nor can it be the work of an Indian student in London based on any of Mr. Danvers’ general reports.  A reference to the first few paragraphs and the last one of the Report would show that it is the work of one who examined the Dutch Records locally in the State Archives in the Hague in 1893, 1894 and also in the year (1895?) when the Report was actually drawn up.  Mr. Danvers’ general “Report .. on the Records of the India Office” was issued in 1888 – a reference presumably to this report is made in f.n 2 of page 51 ; but the present Report has hardly any thing to do with either that Report or with the India Office Records.  It is interesting, however, to note that Typescripts 2 and 3 though described as Report on India Office Records : Appendix, contain, in fact, only lists of English official documents relating to Dutch activities in the East, in the British Museum, Public Record Office (Colonial Section), Colonial Office and elsewhere, in London.  I presume, they were intended to be treated as appendices to the main general report on the India Office Records issued in 1888.  This may or may not be true, but since the English official records are more or less well-known and have been utilised by various scholars I am not publishing these bar lists which are hardly of any use to-day.  

The Report on the Dutch official Records stands, it seems, on a different footing.  True, it is already about half-a-century old, and we are now fairly well-posted with facts and circumstances relating to Dutch activities in the East.  Even so, there are in this Report points of information, and in certain instances details of facts that are not yet available to English readers.  Such, for instance, is the details account of the relations between the English and the Dutch between the years 1617 and 1620 and of the selection of Jakatra as the seat of the Dutch Government in the East and its eventual transformation into what came to be known as “Batavia”, the head-quarters of the Dutch in the East.  New side-lights on Dutch policy are also available on many points of detail, especially in respect of Dutch relations with the Archipelago nationals, the Chinese, the French and the Spaniards besides the English and the Portuguese.  Of other interesting items mention may be made of the introduction of coffee plantation in Java.  But the value of the Report lies in its analysis of the “Articles of Instructions” issued from time to time, beginning from November, 1609, by the Netherlands Administration for the regulation of their eastern trade.  Mr. Danvers correctly points out that “these instructions are the embodiment of the principles on which the Dutch East Indian possessions were obtained, held and governed.  Without these it would be impossible fully to appreciate the continuity of policy pursued by the Dutch in the East, or properly to apportion the responsibility for their actions between the State, the Company and their Governors.  This is, I believe, the first instance of these important documents being made available excepting in the Dutch language.”  Reference to these “Instructions” are to be met with in recent publications in English, but Mr. Danvers’ claim that he makes available for the first time to English readers their detailed statement and draws attention of English readers to their importance is, I think, substantially correct even to-day.

The ‘mystery’ of how anything written by Mr. Danvers could find its way to a small library in India can easily be explained.  Instances are frequent of personal collections including manuscripts of scholars and bibliophiles in Europe being broken up after the death of their owners, their being auctioned locally and then shipped out – if they were of Indian interest – for sale in India.  More than one auction house in Calcutta within my knowledge used to and do even now hold periodical auctions of such books etc., and some of our important libraries have enriched their collections by purchase in lots from such sales.  Important old book-sellers also make a profitable trade in business of this kind.  It seems that Mr. Danvers’ collection after his death was similarly broken up and somehow or other part of it at least found its way to Calcutta where Messers Mackenzie Lyall & Co. put it under the hammer.  This assumption finds support in the fact that in the lot purchased by Mr. Ganguli there were at least two books which from the signatures on their title pages seem to have belonged to the collection of Mr. Danvers.  I am told by Sir Jadunath Sarkar that H. H. Shrimant Bala Sahib Pant Pratinidhi Raja Sahib of Aundh also has in his possession a small collection of typed papers of Mr. Danvers which, I understand, were purchased by H. H. the Raja Sahib from a London old book stall, and which relate themselves to Dutch activities in India and the Archipelago.

It is difficult to assess from this report the extent of Mr. Danvers’ knowledge of the Dutch language or that of help he received from his Dutch assistant.  The fact that he was deputed to the Hague to report on the Dutch Records in the State Archives perhaps shows that he was not altogether ignorant of Dutch and it is quite possible that he was materially helped by Dutch assistants.  In any case I have not been able to find in his Report anything that seriously contradicts facts known from English and Dutch publications on the subject or materially alters the course of events reconstructed from unpublished records in the State Archives in the Hague.  It is true, the Report is scrappy and inadequate even in respect of the seventeenth century which admittedly was the scope Mr. Danvers had set for himself ; but we must remember that it was not meant to be anything more than a preliminary sketch like his brief Report on the Portuguese Records … (1892) that seems to have later developed into two big volumes of History of the Portuguese in India (1894).  Had he lived for several years more the would perhaps have given us an equally valuable book on the Dutch in India.  His investigations in Dutch activities in the East seem to have begun sometime before 1888 when he issued his Report on the India Office Records, and continued till his death.  It is likely therefore that he had taken noted and drafted tentative reports that we have yet no knowledge of.  Sir William in his letter refers to such interim drafts ; in the present Report Danvers also speaks of one that was drawn up a year before (1894?).

Frederick Charles Danvers was for nearly fifteen years, from January, 1884 to 1898, Registrar and Superintendent of Records of the India Office.  In the India Office List for 1898, his career has been detailed as follows:

Educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and King’s College, London, and after a special training preparatory for Addiscombe, studied for two years for a civil and mechanical engineer ; East India House writer, old establishment, 26th January, 1853 ; junior clerk, Public and Ecclesiastical Department, India Office, September, 1858 ; Public Works Department, 1861 ; senior clerk, June 1867 ; assistant secretary in the Public Works Department, February, 1875 ; assistant secretary in the Revenue Department, 1877 ; Registrar and Superintendent of Records, January, 1884 ; in 1855 designed a salt-weighting machine, of which a number were manufactured in this country for the use of the Madras Government; in 1859 was deputed to Liverpool and Manchester to report on Traction engines, with a view to their being used in India ; deputed to Lisbon to examine the Portuguese records relating to India, 1891-92 [and at Evora relating to India ; India Office List, 1895] ; on similar duty to the Hague, 1893-95.  [On similar duty to the Hague, Sept., 1893 and again, Oct., 1894 ; India Office List, 1895] ; author of articles published in “Engineering” relative to public works in India, 1866-1875 ; of a design for carrying the East Indian Railway under the Hugli from Howray to Calcutta, transmitted to India by the Secretary of State in 1868 ; of “Statistical Papers relating India” (Parliamentary Paper 1869) ; of memoranda on Indian coal, coal-washing and artificial fuel 1867-69 ; of “Coal Economy”, 1872 ; of “A Century of Famines”, 1770-1870, 1877, of papers read before the Society of Arts, on “Agriculture in India”, 1878 (Society’s silver medal), “Famines in India”, 1886, and “The India Office Records”, 1889 (Society’s silver medal); of a “Report on the Records of the India Office”, 1887 ; “Chiefs, Agents, and Governors of Bengal”, 1888 ; of a “Report on the Portuguese Records relating to India”, 1892 ; and of a “History of the Portuguese in India”, 1894 ; elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Geographical Society of Lisbon, 1894, and of the International Colonial Institute, Brussels, 1895.

It will be seen from above that Mr. Danvers was deputed by the India Office to the Hague thrice, once every year, in 1893, 1894 and again in 1895, evidently to report on the Dutch Records on India in the State Archives in the Hague.  This is exactly what Mr. Danvers states in the last paragraph of his Report.  It is further clear that except an interim one in 1894 (p. 5), he did not issue any further report on those records before his death, though it appears that the present Report was actually drawn up in 1895.  The two appendices (not published) to the Report on the India Office Records were however prepared in 1898.  It is difficult to say why Danvers chose not to submit to the authorities his final Report on the Dutch Records which must have been the purpose for which he was deputed to the Hague.  In any case it is clear that he did prepare a Report which for some reason or other was not submitted to the proper authorities nor issued independently which explains why the India Office List has no entry, or why Danvers’ assistant (ill 1895) had no knowledge of any such report.  Absence of any knowledge on the part of the India Office and of Sir William Foster may also be explained in the same manner.

In the printing of the Report, Mr. Danvers’ typescript has been followed rather very scrupulously.  Nothing has been changed, not even the spelling of proper names.  I have however inserted certain punctuations to facilitate easier reading and understanding, but that too where it was found absolutely necessary.  Vingurla has been spelt in a least three different ways (Wingorla, Vengurla, Vingorla) ; Mataran occurs also as Mataram; Pondicherry as Pondichery, Negapatam as Nagapatam; Achin as Atchin; Coromandel as Coromandal; Macao as Mecao; and so on.  I have chosen not to interfere with such alternative forms of proper names.  There are however certain evident mistakes, perhaps typist’s errors, which have been rectified in “Notes and Corrections”, e.g. Pieter van den Broeck should certainly be Pieter van den Broecke.

There are very few comprehensive works in English relating to Dutch Activities in India and the East.  Prof. P. Geyl’s chapter on the “Dutch in India” in the Cambridge History of India, vol. V (1929), is certainly a competent and well-summarised narrative, but it is meagre.  K.M. Panikkar’s Malabar and the Dutch (1931) traces the history of the relations of the Dutch with the west coast of India which may be said to begin with the capture of Cochin from the Portuguese in 1663 and continued till the surrender of that place to Major Petrie in 1795.  In recent years Prof. D.G.E. Hall published two very interesting accounts relating to Dutch relations with Burma and Arakan (“Studies in Dutch relations with Arakan” and the “Daghregister of Batavia and Dutch Trade with Burma in the seventeenth century”, in the Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1936 and 1939).  Interesting studies on different aspects and phases of Dutch relations with Bengal, Ceylon and the eastern coast of India have in recent years been made by various scholars ; some of them have been published in the Annual Proceedings of the Indian Historical Records Commission, others in different Indian historical journals.  

But there is yet scope for a full and comprehensive account in English of Dutch activities in India and the East such as Mr. Danvers gave us in respect of Portuguese activities.  Original materials for such a study, in manuscripts and in printed form, are now easily available, in Dutch and in English translations; and a fairly comprehensive bibliography of such materials has been furnished by Prof. Geyl and Mr. Panikkar.  Besides, Prof. J. van Kan, a Dutch scholar who visited India in 1929-30, has given us a valuable catalogue entitled Compagniesbescheiden En Aanverwante Archivalia in Britisch-Indie En op Ceylon which gives us an inventory of the documents available in India and Ceylon.  There is also a small collection of Dutch records in the Bengal Record Room, but they deal mainly with revenue matters in Chinsurah.  Valuable secondary works in Dutch are also available and Prof. Geyl and Panikkar mention all important publications in this connection.  Attention may also be drawn to the necessity of consulting materials available in books and manuscripts in Indian languages, mainly in Malayalam, Sinhalese, Tamil, and Bengali where incidental references to the Dutch and their activities are not altogether rare.  It is true they are not mentioned as often as the Portuguese, but nevertheless such references furnish side-lights that are too interesting to be missed.

It remains for me to acknowledge my obligations.  I am very thankful to Mr. Haridas Ganguli and the authorities of the Vaidyabati Young Men’s Association who very kindly allowed me to keep the typescripts with me for such a long time, and gave me permission to edit and publish the Report.  I am also thankful to Dr. S.N. Sen, Director of Archives, Government on India, for having promptly replied to all the enquiries I addressed him from time to time.  Sir William Foster was also very prompt in replying to the queries I placed before him for clarification.  My young friend and pupil Mr. Sudhiranjan Das helped me in reading the proofs and preparing the Index.  To all of them I extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude.
N.R.
The University

Calcutta.
1945




REFERENCES
Dutch Activities in the East Seventeenth Century Being a "Report on the Records relating to the East in the State Archives in The Hague" with two appendices by Frederick Charles Danvers, Edited with an Introduction by Nihar-Ranjan Ray, University of Calcutta. 1945.

Holmes, D. L. (2008). Old company records: The effect of custodial history on the arrangement and description of selected archival collections of business records. Thesis, Master of Science, School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, 2008.  Available at https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/23

If you would like further information about Frederick Charles Danvers and the records he investigated in the 1890s at the State Archives in The Hague, please email me on geniedonna @ yahoo.com.au

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Frederick Waters' story

Frederick Waters' story
Frederick Waters was born 22 July 1843 at Helmsley Street, South Hackney district in the county of Middlesex, England, third son to Thomas Henry Waters, coachman, and Elizabeth Waters nee Morgan. By the 1861 census, Thomas and Elizabeth had five sons and two daughters and were residing at 7 Albion Square, Hackney and Frederick Water's occupation was a milkman.

In 1866, Fred Waters married Eliza Osborne and on 21 November 1867, Eliza gave birth to Eliza Louisa (Lily) Waters at their home at 23 Woodland Street, Dalston, Hackney, where Fred was working as a dairyman. Eliza and Fred's son, Frederick Thomas Osborne Waters, was born on 10 March 1869 at their home but sadly Eliza died of puerperal fever seven days after the confinement.

Now with two small children and a busy carrying business, Fred engaged a nanny, Frances Amies, to care for Lily and baby Frederick. Fred and Frances were married 21 September 1869 and on 2 October 1870, Fred (27), Frances (22), Lily (3) and Frederick (1) boarded the ship Light Brigade to emigrate as assisted passengers to Australia. Eight weeks into the voyage, Frances gave birth to their first son, Herbert Waters and the ship arrived at Moreton Bay on 11 January 1871. The master of the Light Brigade was H. Evans, the surgeon A.H. McLeod and matron Mrs Matilda Gaudin.

Fred and Frances found work at a sugar plantation called Ormeau, south of Brisbane. Sadly a double tragedy struck the family when little Frederick and three-month old Herbert died within two days of each other. They were buried together in a slab coffin next to the creek at Pimpama on 16 April 1871.

Fred and Frances moved to The Grange at Pimpama where their son George was born 17 March 1872 and the following year they moved to Brisbane where their daughter Annie Elizabeth was born 23 September 1874. Their family continued to grow with the arrival of Bertha (1877), Frederick Amies (1879), Dora Alice (1883) and Florence May (1885). Sadly little Dora succumbed to typhoid on 30 January 1886 and was buried at Toowong Cemetery.

A happy occasion for the family occurred on 14 November 1888 when their eldest daughter Lily married Sam Raby at the Christ Church, Milton. 

By 1895 Fred and Frances were living at Petrie Terrace beside their furniture shop and their family of ten was now complete - Lilly (28 and married), George (23), Annie (21), Bertha (18), Frederick (16), Florence (10), Lena (8), Thomas (4) and Edward (6 months).

Bertha Waters married Charles Edward Williams on 16 November 1896, George Waters married Laura Thornton on 22 December 1896 and Annie Elizabeth Waters married Ernest Gilchrist on 7 July 1897.

Fred and Frances' resilience was again called upon when a serious fire completely destroyed their furniture shop and residence at Petrie Terrace on 21 November 1899. The event was reported in the newspaper and further details can be read in an online article The Waters Family, Petrie Terrace [see link at bottom].

More sadness was to visit Fred and Frances when their 30-year-old daughter Annie [Mrs. E. Gilchrist] died 14 October 1904 in Rockhampton, survived by her grieving husband and three young children.

Happier times for the family occurred when Frederick Amies Waters married Jessie Sullivan on 21 March 1905, Florence May Waters married Bert Quaife on 16 November 1909, Lena Waters married George Wixon on 12 April 1910 and Thomas Arthur Waters married Tottie Cranley on 7 September 1912.

By 1913, Fred and Frances had moved Rockbourne Terrace, Paddington and left the running of their carrying business to their sons and son-in-law.  At the age of 74, Fred injured his back when he was thrown from a sulky on North Quay in July 1916.

An opportunity to have a family photo of four generations occurred in September 1919. In the photo below is Fred Waters (76), daughter Lily [Mrs. S. Raby] (52), granddaughter Elsie [Mrs. D. Goodwin] (28) and great granddaughter Gladys Goodwin (seven months).

FOUR GENERATIONS OF THE WATERS FAMILY
Black and white photo coloured using MyHeritage incolor site.



Handwriting of Fred Waters
King James Bible cover


Inscription on fly leaf of King James Bible dated August 9, 1920

From Great Grandfather F. Waters 
To his Great Granddaughter Gladys Merle Goodwin age 1 year & 6 months 
May God Bless You and forever keep you under the Shadow of His wing 
Love God and Keep His Commandments



Sadly in September 1920, Fred and Frances' second eldest son, Federick Amies Waters died aged 41, survived by his grieving wife, four daughters and one son.

Fred and Frances' youngest son Edward Harold Waters married Lottie Ann Nolan on 30 July 1921.

Fred and Frances had been married for 55 years when Fred, aged 82, died 28 August 1925, survived by his wife, seven of his twelve children and 34 of his 38 grandchildren.

After Fred's passing, Frances remained at the Waters family home at Rockbourne Terrace, Paddington and by the early 1940s, Frances' youngest daughter and family were living there. Frances died 10 September 1942, aged 94, and was buried beside Fred at the Toowong Cemetery.


Grandchildren of Frederick Waters (1843-1925) and 
Eliza Waters nee Osbourne (1843-1869)
1. George Alexander Raby (1889-1890)
2. Elsie Mary Frances Goodwin nee Raby (1891-1974) ...
3. Herbert Garnett Raby (1892-1978)
4. Eliza Louisa White nee Raby (1895-1981)
5. Juanita Law Lambert nee Raby (1898-2001)
6. Emily Elizabeth Harrup nee Raby (1900-1992)
7. Cecil Winston Raby (1903-1966)
8. Harold Albert Osmond Raby (1905-1981)
9. Dora Alice Currie nee Raby (1909-2006)


Grandchildren of Frederick Waters (1843-1925) and 
Frances Waters nee Amies (1848-1942)
1. George Frederick John Waters (1897-1964)
2. Charles George Williams (1897-1970)
3. Ernest John Gilchrist (1898-1969)
4. Howard Amies Waters (1899-1976)
5. John Joseph Williams (1899-1959)
6. Frances May Williams (1900-1901)
7. Frederick Howard Gilchrist (1901-1993)
8. Frederick Amies Waters (1902-1980)
9. Alice McCulloch nee Williams (1902-1977)
10. Annie Jessie Frances Rundle nee Gilchrist (1904-1983)
11. Isabel Frances Peel nee Waters (1905-1989)
12. Sidney Waters (1906-1930)
13. Joseph Waters (1908-1908)
14. Jessie Hinsbey nee Waters (1908-1990)
15. Olive May Boyd nee Waters (1910-1995)
16. Albert Edward Quaife (1910-1971)
17. Percival Thomas Waters (1911-1970)
18. George Edward Wixon (1911-1995)
19. William Amies Quaife (1912-1914)
20. Russell Waters (1913-1968)
21. Joseph Arthur Waters (1913-1960)
22. William Lawrence Waters (1913-1976)
23. Roy Allan Wixon (1913-1993)
24. Joyce Martin nee Waters (1915-1995)
25. Muriel Frances Sheridan nee Waters (1915-2002)
26. Leslie Harold Quaife (1915-2001)
27. Maureen Lucy Rose nee Waters (1916-1982)
28. Marjorie Cecilia Waters (1919-1960)
29. Colin Francis Quaife (1920-1989)
30. Thomas Jack Waters (1921-1984)
31. Brian Edward Waters (1921-1987)
32. John William Wixon (1922-1986)
33. Norman Eric Wixon (1924-2005)
34. Garvin Leon Waters (1924-1982)
35. Florence May Shuttlewood nee Quaife (1924-1996)
36. Fay Patricia Gee nee Waters (1926-2011)
37. Bevan Ronald Waters (1928-2013)
38. Frances Lavina Wixon (b. 1929)
39. Carmen Odellia Maher nee Waters (1938-2013)

References:
Black and white photo coloured using MyHeritage incolor site. 
https://www.myheritage.com/incolor

Register of Immigrants: Light Brigade, 1871-1873. 
Queensland State Archives digital image ID 38766 http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Image/DigitalImageDetails.aspx?ImageId=38766

Report of Magisterial Inquiry held at the residence of Mr. Waters, Pimpama. 
The Brisbane Courier Sat 15 Apr 1871 p. 5 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1311379

The Waters Family, Petrie Terrace. 
Your Brisbane: Past and Present. Brisbane's history in photographs. 
Posted online March 2011, accessed 26.1.2016
However it seems yourbrisbanepastandpresent is no longer active in Dec 2021 so the pages can be viewed from a snapshot taken by the Wayback machine Internet Archive

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Henry and Selina Hale

Henry and Selina Hale

Henry Ponting Hale (23) and Selina Gammon (16) were married on 4 April 1860 in Victoria.

Henry's middle name was from his paternal grandmother Mary Ponting (1769-1817) who married John Hale (1765-1853) in 1787 at Berkeley, Gloucestershire.  Henry's elder brother Alfred Hale (1823-1883) had emigrated to the United States in 1851, settling in Little Grant township, Wisconsin.

Henry and Selina's first child, Annis Amelia Hale was born 29 August 1861 at Duneed, Victoria. Sadly their next two children, Emily and Henry, died in infancy and both were buried at the Highton Cemetary, Barrabool Hills.

Three sons were born over the next four years - Charles Henry Hale (1866 at Gnarwarre), Alfred Richard Hale (1868 at Ceres) and William John Hale (1870 at Ceres). They were followed by four daughters born at Ceres - Annie Marie Hale (1872), Mary Martha Hale (1875), Emily Louisa Jane Hale (1878) and Florence Selina Hale (1880).

A year earlier, in 1879, their daughter Annis Amelia Hale (18) married William James Trigg (22).

Henry and Selina's eleventh (and last) child Lottie Margaret Hale was born in 1884 and the following year on 4 April Henry and Selina had been married for 25 years. 

Sadly the following year on 18 April 1886 at home at Barrabool Hills, Selina Hale nee Gammon died, aged just 42 years. Selina was survived by nine of her eleven children from her eldest Annis (aged 25 and married) to her youngest Lottie (aged 2). Selina was buried at Highton Cemetery, Barrabool Hills.

At the Hale family home at Barrabool Hills were Henry and his three elder sons, Charles (20), Alfred (18) and William (16) and five daughters, Annie (14), Mary (11), Emily (8), Florence (6) and Lottie (2).

Now in his early 50s, Henry clearly needed help on the home front and in 1888 he married Margaret Henry (43).

Henry's youngest daughter, Lottie, was just six years old when she died in June 1890 and was buried at Colac Cemetery.

In 1893, a happy occasion would have been celebrated at Bay View Farm, Barrabool Hills when Henry's eldest son, Charles Henry Hale (27) married Rachael Matthews (23). 

Sadly, the following year, Henry Ponting Hale died 15 January 1894, aged 57, and he was buried beside Selina at Highton Cemetery, Barrabool Hills.

Henry was remembered as a caring man as can be seen in the following verse placed in the Geelong Advertiser one year after his passing:

In sad and loving remembrance of my dear husband, Henry Ponting Hale, 
who died at Geelong, January 15th, 1894.
A precious one from us is gone, A voice we loved is still, 
A place is vacant in our home That never can be filled.
I miss him from his home, I miss him from his place; 
A shadow o'er my life is cast, I miss the sunshine of his face.
I miss his kind and willing hand, His fond and earnest care. 
Our home is dark without him, I miss him everywhere.
Inserted by his loving wife.

In 1895, Annie Maria Hale (23) married Samuel John Gugger (24).
In 1896, Mary Martha Hale (21) married Adam James McHarry (23).
On 16 March 1896 at Christ Church, Geelong, Emily Louisa Jane Hale (18) married Francis Phillip Matthews (22). [Phil Matthews was a sibling of Rachael Matthews.]
In 1897, Alfred Richard Hale (31) married Ann Stokes Beck (25).
In 1899, William John Hale (29) married Catherine Ellen Thomas (27).
On 4 April 1900, Florence Selina Hale (19) married Henry Edward Crook (30).

List of 49 grandchildren 
of Henry Ponting Hale (1837-1894) and Selina Gammon (1844-1886):

Edith Amelia Price nee Trigg (1880-1947)
Alfred James Earnest Albert Trigg (1881-1948)
Minnie Florence Ryan nee Trigg (1884-1948)
George William Trigg (1886-1959)
Selina Maud McDonald nee Trigg (1888-1965)
Elsie May Trigg (1889-1890)
Walter Oliver Trigg (1891-1941)
Ruby Hale Victoria Trigg (1893-1917)
William Henry Ernest Hale (1893-1894)
Ivy Olive Kelly Trigg (1895-1967)
Samuel Leonard Ponting Hale (1895-1966)
Alexander Samuel Henry Gugger (1896-1988)
William Henry Leslie Trigg (1897-1976)
Charles Rupert Hale (1897-1958)
Samuel John Gugger (1897-1983)
Mabel Selina McHarry (1897-1924)
Phillip Colcott Matthews (1897-1970)
Laura Alma Wilson nee Hale (1899-1991)
Alick Wilfred Percy Matthews (1899-1961)
Annis Rosina Isabel Mills nee Trigg (1900-1973)
Frederick Leslie Gugger (1900-1984)
Ina Florence May Dease nee Matthews (1900-1981)
Henry Evan Hale (1901-1909)
Ronald James McHarry (1901-1975)
William Hugh Matthews (1901-1960)
Gordon Victor Crook (1901-1959)
Ronald Colcott Hale (1902-1937)
Frances Mary Selina Anderson nee Gugger (1902-2001)
David Henry McHarry (1902-1987)
Cecil Clarence Edward Trigg (1903-1977)
Gladys Selina Langshaw nee Crook (1903-1976)
Herbert Roy Matthews (1904-1977) . . . 
Henry Stanley Roy Crook (1905-1928)
Winnie Weselman nee Hale (1906-1983)
Ernest Matthews (1906-1906)
Reginald James Alfred Hale (1907-1980)
Charles Henry Batrecor Matthews (1907-1980)
Harry William Charles Crook (1907-1930)
Myrtle Selina Hale Ison nee Hale (1908-1996)
Alma Downing nee Matthews (1908-1973)
Mary Margaret McHarry (1909-1909)
Doris Stones nee Matthews (1911-1967)
Mavis Selina Hart Atkinson nee Hale (1912-1997)
Pearl Polmear nee Matthews (1914-1987)
Ernest Lawrence (Jack) Matthews (1916-1967)
Colin Henry Crook (1916-1980)
Mabel Emily Wilkinson nee Matthews (1917-1994)
Hazel Jeanette Francis formerly Reid nee Matthews (b. 1921)
Leslie Wallace (Tom) Matthews (1924-1995)