The Rev Edward Walter & Mrs Sarah Nangle

[Read more on the Rev Edward Nangle in this article from Patrick Comerford]

The Nangle family are well represented in the photo album, starting with Edward Walter who married twice, his second wife was Sarah Fetherstonhaugh, daughter of the Rev Cuthbert & his wife Anne (neé Holmes) Fetherstonhaugh. There is an excellent article on Edward Nangle, his two wives and their fifteen children, the website lists the names of all of them, the four youngest are Sarah’s and who are featured in the album, along with Major William Nangle, one of their half-brothers and the wife and two children of another half-brother Major Henry Beresford Nangle.

As there are quite a few photos I’ll leave the article to tell you all about them, I’ve named all the photos so you shouldn’t have any trouble identifying each one, I’ve named them with exactly what is written in the album, anything in (brackets) is my thoughts on who they are.

As you can see a lot of the photos have not scanned very well at all, I’m not surprised as they can be up to 140 years old. It seems it depended on the photographer and the method they used, some from the same photographer have aged very badly, then again some of them you would have thought had been taken yesterday.

Their eldest daughter Katherine (Kate) & her husband Major Hallet George Batten, they had four children.

Second daughter Anne Fetherstonhaugh Nangle, she was the second wife of Rev John Henry Davidson and they had one son Douglas Nangle Fetherstonhaugh Davidson (Lieutenant-Colonel). Her two sisters were witnesses at her marriage. Strangely her photos are named as N F Davidson so perhaps she was known as Nancy or Nan which is a common nickname for Anne, I note her three siblings all had nicknames.

Third daughter Sarah Jane Nangle, known as Jennie, married Charles Henry Shephard (Colonel) and they had one son, Charles Edward Cuthbert Shephard.

Last child and their only son, Edward Cuthbert Nangle (Dr), known as Ted, married Dorothy Bolland Briscoe, they had two sons & one daughter, Edward Jocelyn, Hugh Cuthbert Milo & Dorothy Ismay Nangle.

I still have not worked out just who Lily is yet! It’s obviously a family nickname for her and although one of the photos names her as Lily Fetherstonhaugh I have not a clue as to her identity!

This next photo is of Rev Edward Nangle’s son William from his first marriage to Eliza neé Warner, Willie never married.

 

 

 

 

 

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Lastly we have these two family photos that are just named ‘Four Nangles’, the earlier one I think has mum Sarah in the middle with Ted, Jennie (sitting) and Kate, the next one I’ve named them in the order I think they are, you might have a different view!

This one may have been taken before 1884 as Jennie is not wearing a wedding ring and 1884 is the year she was married, that would make Ted less than 25 years old. Kate married in 1880 so maybe even before that as her lovely trim figure doesn’t look like she’s had any babies.

References: ancestry.com.au; The Peerage; patrickcomerford.com; Google

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the NANGLE family please do contact me, I’m in two minds as to whether I should keep the photographs and album intact or to remove them to pass on individually to descendant family members. In the meantime I will keep them until I’ve finished all the research and then we’ll see what happens. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora[at]kc.net.nz

Sarah Clibborn Fetherstonhaugh Eland

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+++ UPDATED 21 March 2016 (see below) +++

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The next group of photographs from the Fetherstonhaugh Family Album pertain to the ELAND family.

These four photos were all labelled - S C Eland - along with photos of her two daughters I was able to ascertain that she was Sarah Clibborn Fetherstonhaugh, daughter of Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh and Susan (Curtis) of Grouse Lodge, Moate, Co Westmeath, Ireland.

I originally had the wrong parents for Sarah Clibborn Fetherstonhaugh, she was the daughter of Cuthbert Holmes Fetherstonhaugh and Elizabeth (or Eliza) neé Hurst. At her birth she was probably just Sarah but on her marriage she is listed as Sarah Clibborn Fetherstonhaugh daughter of Cuthbert H Fetherstonhaugh. This now fits in with other photos in the album of a sister Emily Mabel who married a Perrin and after moving to New Zealand died here in 1916, and that is probably how the Album ended up in NZ. More on this family coming soon.

Sarah married Francis Simeon Eland on 6 Jun 1868 in St Peter’s Church in Dublin. As far as I can see they had five children, all born between 1869 & 1874, the first three hadn’t been named when their births were registered so I’ve added who I think they are in red:-

I do know the first one is Edith Rosa as there was this photograph of her grave in the album, sadly she died in her 12^th year.

In Loving Remembrance of

EDITH ROSA ELAND

Born 29^th June 1869 Died 6^th March 1881

Lovely and pleasant in her life

 

As you can see by the name on the cross above her headstone, Edith was known as Rosa, and here we have a few photos of her, all are named Rosa Eland. The last one looks like it was taken not long before she died.

 

On the 15 Dec 1877 mother Sarah filed for divorce in Salt Lake City, Utah, I presume there was a decree absolute as Francis Eland later remarried and had three more children with his second wife in the USA, he died in 1933.

These Irish are a well travelled lot, one of the photos of Sarah Clibborn was taken in Paris, she was born & married in Ireland, divorced in America, lived in Surrey in 1891, back living in Co Wicklow in 1923 before she died in England on 21 Oct 1927 aged 83, at 55 Belmont Rd, Southampton.

Next we have daughter Maude Charlotte, she married Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton in Dublin in 1903, Maude was living in Wexford in the 1911 census, Gerald wasn’t at home that night but Maude and their five children were, they’d been married for seven years, I don’t know if they had anymore children after 1911. (Note: the same chair in the second photo as the chair in the second photo of her sister Rosa, probably taken on the same day.)

Gerald was born in 1871 in India and after a very distinguised career he died in 1914 at age 42 in South Georgia Island, South America. In 1923, at the age of 50, Maude emigrated to Canada to make a new life for her & her children, on her immigration papers she gives her nearest relative as ‘Sarah Eland, mother’ who lived at Hollywood House, Glenealy, Co Wicklow, Ireland (if you want to see a beautiful house just google that address, I wonder if Sarah was staying with relatives there, something to keep in the back of my mind).

After 1923 she seems to have flitted around the world at various times, in 1932 from Canada she was going to stay at 55 Belmont Rd, Southampton, the same address her mother was living at five years previously when she died, in 1937 she departed from Gibraltar where she had been staying with son Frank at Retreat Farm, Fontainebleau, Johannesburg, South Africa, arriving in New York on her way to 6 Aynsley Court, Winnipeg, Canada. On the 14 Aug 1963 her death is registered as being in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, her address was Chisapi Estate, Karoi, Southern Rhodesia.

There are no photos in the album of Sarah’s sons, I don’t know about the unnamed son born 1870, possibly died young as did brother Arthur aged 2 in 1876, Francis died during the Boer War in Spelonken, South Africa on 6 Aug 1901 aged 28.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the ELAND family please do contact me, I’m in two minds as to whether I should keep the photographs and album intact or to remove them to pass on individually to descendant family members. In the meantime I will keep them until I’ve finished all the research and then we’ll see what happens. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora[at]kc.net.nz

Robert Vandeleur Kelly 1843-1913

This is the first group of photos I’ve been able to positively identify from the old Fetherstonhaugh Photograph Album in my possession.

Robert Vandeleur Kelly is quite well documented online and I found this biography of him which also includes his son Robert Hume Vandeleur Kelly:-

Robert Vandeleur Kelly (1843-1913), medical practitioner and army officer, and Robert Hume Vandeleur Kelly (1878-1951), army officer, were father and son. Kelly senior was born on 26 July 1843 at Glencara, Westmeath, Ireland, son of Robert Hume Kelly, barrister, and his wife Isabella Olivia, née Isdell. He was educated at Bonn, Prussia, and in 1855-60 at The King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales; the headmaster of the school, Rev. F. Armitage, was his brother-in-law.

Kelly studied medicine in Edinburgh (L.M., L.R.C.P., 1873) and worked as a dispensary medical officer for six months in Glasgow and four years in Ireland where he was also assistant surgeon to the Westmeath (Rifles) Militia. After his marriage on 13 June 1877 at Horseleap, Westmeath, to Anne Holmes Fetherstonhaugh according to the rites of the Church of Ireland, he moved to Warwickshire, England, as medical officer, Castle Bromwich District, Aston Union, and as surgeon to the Militia Medical Department. Appointed F.R.C.S. in 1880, he joined the South Staffordshire Regiment as surgeon in 1883. In 1885 he returned to Westmeath.

In 1889 Kelly migrated to Sydney. He established a city practice and for nearly five years was an 'outdoor' surgeon to Sydney Hospital; he often acted for Dr Paton, the government medical officer. He was commissioned as a partially paid surgeon captain in the Military Forces of New South Wales on 12 October 1889 and promoted surgeon major on 9 January 1896.

Kelly was a founder of the St John Ambulance Association in New South Wales in 1890 and later a Knight of Grace of the Order which he served strenuously all his life. In April 1894 he delivered a paper on army ambulance organization to the United Service Institution of New South Wales, proposing recruitment of a special force from civilian ambulance services, including surgeons, nurses and stretcher-bearers equipped with sprung, mule-drawn, covered wagons like 'those used for carrying Grand Pianos' and independent of Army Service Corps transport. The proposal was commended by Lieutenant-Colonel (Sir) William Williams and was probably the origin of the field ambulances which made the New South Wales Army Medical Corps impressively mobile in the South African War. It may also have been the origin of the Army Nursing Service Reserve which Kelly helped Williams, Colonel R. E. Roth and Miss E. J. Gould to organize.

With the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel Kelly commanded two contingents of the N.S.W.A.M.C., embarking with the Second Contingent on 17 January 1900 and with the Third Contingent on 17 March 1901. He served in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, including actions at Johannesburg, Pretoria, Diamond Hill and Bethlehem. He was mentioned in dispatches and appointed C.B. in 1902. A junior colleague described him as 'a fairly witty Irishman with a pretty taste in literature', and 'a gentlemanly, kindly figure-head [who] really knew nothing of actual management'.

After the war Kelly practised medicine at Auburn. He died of cerebral haemorrhage at Balmoral on 15 October 1913. Survived by his wife and their son and daughter, he was buried in the Anglican section of Thirlmere cemetery.

His son Robert was born at Erdington, Warwickshire, on 13 April 1878. Educated at Sydney Grammar School, he was commissioned second lieutenant, Mounted Rifles, Military Forces of New South Wales, on 21 March 1896 and left for South Africa with the First Mounted Rifles on the same day as his father, 17 January 1900. He served till April in the Orange River Colony in actions at Poplar Grove and Driefontein.

On 23 May 1900 Kelly obtained a commission as second lieutenant, Royal Artillery, British Regular Army; he was promoted lieutenant in 1907, captain in 1911 and major in 1914. He served with the Royal Artillery Ordnance Corps in World War I, from 14 February 1917, when he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, as assistant director of ordnance services. For eight months in 1917 he was attached to 1 Anzac Corps, Australian Imperial Force.

Twice mentioned in dispatches, he retired on 6 December 1922 and returned to Sydney. It is believed he never married. Kelly died at Cremorne on 23 January 1951 and was cremated.

As this photograph was taken in the same studio as the first one I presume this young child is Robert Hume Vandeleur Kelly, son of the above. There is also a photo named Mrs Goode neé Fan Kelly - Robert’s sister:-

     

Fan Kelly was Frances Mary Vandeleur Kelly, born 22 Dec 1883 at Bell Lane, Erdington, Warwickshire, daughter of Dr Robert Vandeleur Kelly and his wife Annie Holmes neé Fetherstonhaugh. Frances & her mother arrived in Australia from Cape Town on board the vessel ‘Nineveh’ in 1902, in 1910 she married Charles Lacy Good in Granville, New South Wales. The rest you can read about in the biography, father and son both had quite distinguished careers which I guess kept them away from home for long periods. They both died in Australia as did mother & daughter, Annie in 1926 and Frances Good in 1960.

Robert & Annie also had another son, Guy Arthur Vandeleur Kelly, born & baptised on 2 May 1880 in Erdington, Warwickshire, England, in the 3qtr 1880 his death was registered in Athlone, Ireland so I presume that is where he was buried. Annie was born in Ireland in 1845, the daughter of William Fetherstonhaugh of Grouse Lodge in Ireland and his wife Frances also a Fetherstonhaugh, Frances was the daughter of the Reverend Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh and his wife Anne Holmes, more on them later.

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* Note: The photographs in the album were mostly named but written on the album itself so in order to be able to scan them I’ve had to write the names on the backs of the photos to make sure I don’t mix them up! I’ve copied each one word for word, or in a lot of cases just initials.

References: ancestry.com.au; Australian Dictionary of Biography; The Peerage.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the KELLY family please do contact me, I’m in two minds as to whether I should keep the photographs and album intact or to remove them to pass on individually to descendant family members. In the meantime I will keep them until I’ve finished all the research and then we’ll see what happens. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora[at]kc.net.nz

The Beattie Family of Waimamaku

This postcard photograph was sent to my grandmother many years ago by the looks of the fashions. I’m not quite sure how I came by it but the Beatties don’t seem to be related to my family so they must have been friends of my grandparents. They lived in the same area of the Hokianga as my grandmother’s father’s sister & her husband, Elizabeth & Henry Fell. I’m sure there must be a descendant or two who would love to have it. It’s only a small photo which didn’t scan well but it could still become someone’s treasure.

Dad turned out to be Robert Beattie, his wife was Emma Elizabeth née Ostler and the three children are Lucy Jean born 1902, Herbert Reginald 1904 and Jessie Emma Elizabeth 1906.

Robert & Emma Elizabeth had at least four other children that I’ve found, they are:-

Robert Avon 1890-1916; Ernest Douglas 1891; Bertha Annetta 1894; Cyril Cicero Peter 1896-1919.

Robert & Cyril, known as Peter, both died in action in WWI, mentioned on the headstone of their parents’ grave in the Waimamaku Cemetery in Hokianga.

It’s been an interesting exercise to research this family as there are many ways you can spell BEATTIE, as proved by the above cemetery entry!

It seems that father Robert was born in the Upperby or Kingmoor area of Carlisle in Cumberland, England in 1858. In the 1861 census he was aged 3 yrs and on the passenger list of the ship ‘Canterbury’ that his family arrived in NZ on in 1864 he was aged 6 yrs.

Robert’s parents were John Beattie and Jane Trimble whom I have yet to find a marriage for. John Beattie was born about 1820 in Kirkpatrick, Dumfries-shire, Scotland according to the 1851 census of Scotland. Jane nee Trimble, was born about 1821, the daughter of Susannah Tremble or Trimble and an unknown father, Jane was baptised on the 21 Oct 1821 at Dalston, Cumberland. Susannah later married Robert Lawson about 1825, in the 1841 census Jane is living with her mother & step-father in Westward, Cumberland and living with Jane is a 1yr old Joseph Trimble, I presume Joseph is Jane’s son but as there are no relationships in that census it’s hard to say for sure, it certainly looks like it:-

The first backslash / on the left under Susanna’s name means that is the end of the first household at that address and the double backslash // is the end of the second household at the same address. That means that Jane & Joseph Trimble were living together, hence my presumption that they were mother & son. I was not able to find Joseph in the 1851 census but in 1861 a Joseph Trimble of the right age is living with Jane’s half brother, Lot Lawson, and his birthplace is given as Rosley, Cumberland which is where Jane & Joseph were living in 1841, again I presume the 1861 Joseph is the same person as the 1841 Joseph. After 1861 I can find no further mention of Joseph and as Jane had named another son Joseph in 1863 I presume the first one had died by then.

Sometime between Jun 1841 and 1846, when John & Jane Beattie’s first child was born, is possibly when they were married, but so far I have not found a marriage for them.

John & Jane’s children & their birthplaces are:-

John 1846 Upperby, Cumberland, England
Robert 1848-? Upperby, Cumberland (must have died before 1858)
Richard 1850 Hoddam Dumfries-shire, Scotland
Mary 1853 Carlisle, Cumberland
Jane 1855 Carlisle, Cumberland
Robert 1858 Upperby, Cumberland
William 1861-1862 Upperby, Cumberland
Joseph Young 1863 born at Sea on board the ship 'Canterbury'

The youngest Robert born 1848 was aged 3 yrs in the 1851 census when the family were living in Scotland, he possibly died in Scotland before the family moved back to Cumberland as there doesn’t seem to be a death registration for him in England.

I haven’t researched Robert’s wife’s line at all so can’t help with the Ostlers.

References: ancestry.com.au; FreeBMD; familysearch.org, NZBDM Online; Papers Past

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the BEATTIE or TRIMBLE families please do contact me, I would love to pass the photo onto a family member, even a distant one. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora[at]kc.net.nz