The Children
Of
Col Anthony
William Durnford and Barbara Brabazon
1. Edward William Durnford
2.
George Anthony Durnford
3. Catherine
Jemima Durnford
4. Arthur Gifford Durnford
5. Harriet
Barbara Durnford
1.Edward
William Durnford b
22 nd Oct 1803 in London and died 30 January 1889 in Hampshire
2.George Anthony Durnford b 18 Sept 1804 in Kent and died 8 Oct 1856 in Simla East Indies
3.Catherine Jemima Durnford b 3 Feb 1806 died 8 October 1820 in St John Marylebone
4.Arthur Gifford Durnford b 14 Jan 1809 Brockhill Surrey d 22 Dec 1886 Hindolveston
2.George Anthony Durnford b 18 Sept 1804 in Kent and died 8 Oct 1856 in Simla East Indies
3.Catherine Jemima Durnford b 3 Feb 1806 died 8 October 1820 in St John Marylebone
4.Arthur Gifford Durnford b 14 Jan 1809 Brockhill Surrey d 22 Dec 1886 Hindolveston
5.Harriet
Barbara Durnford b 9 May 1810 in London d
2nd May 1885 in York Ontario
1.
Edward William Durnford
He married
Elizabeth Rebecca Langley b 1804 in Sri Lanka, in 1829 at St Johns
Church Cardiff d 28 Jan 1894 in Southend.
Edward, like his father and uncles before him joined the Royal Engineers. In 1825 he was nominated a "Candidate for the Corps of Royal Engineers," and joined the Ordnance Survey at Cardiff. In August 1826, he was posted to Chatham and was gazetted 2nd-Lieutenant in Sept. of the same year. (a) He joined the Ordnance Survey of Ireland in 1827 and served there until 1842 when he transferred to the English Survey in which he served until 1844. (b) He was promoted 2nd-Captain in 1841. In 1845 he embarked for service in China. (c) In 1849 he served in Scotland until 1855 when he embarked for service in the Crimea. He was however, detained at Malta and served there until 1856, when he embarked for Ireland where he was employed upon district duties until 1857, being appointed Assistant Adjutant-General to the Royal Engineers serving there. In the meantime, he had been promoted to Brevet Major in July 1854 and Lieutenant-Colonel in December of the same year. Shortly after his promotion to full Colonel in 1860 he was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer in Ireland, which he held until 1866 when he again embarked for Malta as Commanding Royal Engineer and Colonel on the Staff. He remained at Malta until his promotion to the rank of Major-General in 1868. He was promoted Lieutenant-General in 1874, and in the same year he was gazetted to the rank of Colonel Commandant in the Corps. He was further promoted to the rank of General on Oct. 1, 1877. He died a the age of 85 on Jan. 30 1889. Elizabeth died January 1894 in Portsea, Hampshire. Lyttelton Times 10th June 1909 Military
and Naval Notes “Canterbury Times” It is
certainly very unusual, if not unique, for members of one family to serve
uninterruptedly in the same Corps for one hundred and fifty years, and we are
very glad to bring a remarkable instance of such long service to the notice of
our readers, believing that it will interest them (remarks”The Army and Navy
Gazette”). The family referred to i s
that of Durnford, and the corps the Royal Engineers. Elias Durnford obtained his first commission
int he corps in 1759, rose to the rank of colonel, and died on service in the
West Indies in 1794. His brother Andrew
entered the Royal Engineers in 1769, became a brevet major in 1795 and died in
Bermuda in 1798 Elias Walker Durnford,
son of the first named, was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1793, became
a lieutenant-general and colonel-commandant R.E and died in March, 1850. He had two sons in the corps – Elias Durnford,
who was appointed in 1822, and died on the passage to Ceylon in 1835, and Viney
Durnford, commissioned in 1830, who died at Portsmouth in 1836. Edward
William Durnford grandson of the Andrew – above mentioned entered the corps in
1826, became a General and Colonel-Commandant in the RE, and died in January
1889. Two of his sons served in the
Corps, Anthony William Durnford, who became a second lieutenant in 1848,
attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was killed in action at Isandlwana
in January 1879; and Arthur George Durnford who joined as a lieutenant in 1856,
and retired as a Colonel on September 1, 1894. Colonel
Durnford’s son is Captain Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford, R.E. now serving at
Gibraltar. It will be seen from the foregoing that the name of Durnford has
never been absent from the roll of the Corps of Royal Engineers since 1759, and
that for six years, no less than four members of the family were serving in it
at the same time, for twenty-nine years three members, for seventy-five years
two members, and for forty years one.
During this century and a half fifteen other member of the family have
served as officers in the Army. This is
a roll of which any family might be proud. They had 5 children 1.1 Anthony William Durnford 24 May 1830 Manor Hamilton Ireland 22 Jan 1879 South Africa 1.2. Edward Congreave Langley Durnford 8 May 1832 - 1927 1.3. Annabella Barbara Durnford 19 Mar 1834 Limerick Ireland - 1884 1.4 Catherine Jemima Durnford 16 Mar 1836 Killerhrandra Ireland d 1904 1.4. Arthur George Durnford 9 Aug 1838 -Westport Ireland 1912 1.5. Harriet Maria Boteler Durnford 1 Mar 1840 - 1916 Harriet did not marry and lived with her parents throughout her life Members of Elizabeth Langley's family were also involved in the British Military. She was the daughter of Captain John Langley b 1771 in London, and Annabella Claringbold. She was born 1778 and died August 1848 in Cardiff. Her father was the Captain and Paymaster in the Royal Glamorgan Militia. Elizabeth was one of 12 children. Among her brothers was General Sir George Colt Langley KCB, a General in the British Army. He attended Adam's Grammar School for his schooling. WJK: “General Sir George C. Langley served in the [British] operations on the north coast of Spain [during the First Carlist War].” He was “in command of a detachment of Royal Marines of H.M.S. Castor in 1834 and two following years, and was severely wounded on 9 June 1836, defending the Heights of Passages [what they?] against a very superior force of Carlists. For his conduct on this occasion, he was awarded the First Class of the Order of San Fernando. He served subsequently on the north coast of Spain in 1838 to 1840, and had the same order conferred on him a second time for his general services in Spain.” http://www.orange-tree-valley.co.uk |
He was the son of John Langley of St Peter's
Cornhill who was Alderman of London his daughter Elizabeth Langley who
married Fulke Rose in 1678 in Jamacia and Jane married Anthony Swymmer of Jamaica,
When Andrew died the Swymmer's inherited his estates.
John Langley was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653.
Langley was a merchant of the City of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He was one of the Court Assistants from 1643 to 1648 and from 1649 to 1650. He was elected alderman of the City of London for Langbourn ward in December 1649 or January 1650. From 1650 to 1652 he was on the Committee of the East India Company. In 1652 he was Commissioner for the Admiralty and Navy and also Prime Warden of the Fishmongers Company.[1]
In 1653, Langley was nominated as Member of Parliament for City of London in the Barebones Parliament. He was a member of the Committee of the East India Company from 1653 to 1655 and from 1656 to 1657. He was one of the Court Assistants from 1664 to 1671. He was Deputy-Governor of the Levant Company from 1671 to 1672 and was again one of the Court Assistants from 1672 to 1673.
Langley became poor in his old age and a pension of £20 per annum was granted to him by the Court of Common Council on 10 October 1679. Elizabeth's great grandfather Thomas died in 1790 in Jamaica.
John Langley was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653.
Langley was a merchant of the City of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He was one of the Court Assistants from 1643 to 1648 and from 1649 to 1650. He was elected alderman of the City of London for Langbourn ward in December 1649 or January 1650. From 1650 to 1652 he was on the Committee of the East India Company. In 1652 he was Commissioner for the Admiralty and Navy and also Prime Warden of the Fishmongers Company.[1]
In 1653, Langley was nominated as Member of Parliament for City of London in the Barebones Parliament. He was a member of the Committee of the East India Company from 1653 to 1655 and from 1656 to 1657. He was one of the Court Assistants from 1664 to 1671. He was Deputy-Governor of the Levant Company from 1671 to 1672 and was again one of the Court Assistants from 1672 to 1673.
Langley became poor in his old age and a pension of £20 per annum was granted to him by the Court of Common Council on 10 October 1679. Elizabeth's great grandfather Thomas died in 1790 in Jamaica.
2.
George Anthony Durnford
Was a Captain in command of 27th Foot went to assist British garrison besieged by Dutch trekboers Port Natal 1842. At Congella They were boarded Conch in Algoa Bay under Capt William Bell and it took 2 weeks to reach Natal.
The result of this conflict was the end of the Boer Republic of Natalia and the final annexation by Britain of Natal to the Cape Colony followed in 1844.
At the time of Langalibalele's birth, European settlements in Southern Africa were confined to Cape Colony and to Portuguese fortress of Lourenço Marques.In 1824 Fynn established a small British settlement at Port Natal (later to become Durban) but the British Government declined to take possession of the port.
From 1834 onwards, the Voortrekkers (Dutch-speaking farmers) started to migrate from the Cape Colony in large numbers and in 1837 crossed the Drakensberg into KwaZulu-Natal where, after the murder of one of their leaders, Piet Retief, in the massacre at Weenen they defeated Shaka's successor Dingane at the Battle of Blood River, put Mpanda on the Zulu throne and established the republic of Natalia.
Friction between the Voortrekkers and the Pondo, a tribe whose territory lay between Natalia and the Cape Colony led to the British occupying Port Natal, the subsequent Battle of Congella followed by the siege and relief of the port. After the port had been relieved, the Voortrekkers withdrew from KwaZulu-Natal into the interior and the British established the Colony of Natal.
"Narrative of the Entrance of the 'Conch' at Port Natal" by Capt. William Douglas Bell, printed by the Natal Mercury, Durban 1869.
Was a Captain in command of 27th Foot went to assist British garrison besieged by Dutch trekboers Port Natal 1842. At Congella They were boarded Conch in Algoa Bay under Capt William Bell and it took 2 weeks to reach Natal.
The result of this conflict was the end of the Boer Republic of Natalia and the final annexation by Britain of Natal to the Cape Colony followed in 1844.
At the time of Langalibalele's birth, European settlements in Southern Africa were confined to Cape Colony and to Portuguese fortress of Lourenço Marques.In 1824 Fynn established a small British settlement at Port Natal (later to become Durban) but the British Government declined to take possession of the port.
From 1834 onwards, the Voortrekkers (Dutch-speaking farmers) started to migrate from the Cape Colony in large numbers and in 1837 crossed the Drakensberg into KwaZulu-Natal where, after the murder of one of their leaders, Piet Retief, in the massacre at Weenen they defeated Shaka's successor Dingane at the Battle of Blood River, put Mpanda on the Zulu throne and established the republic of Natalia.
Friction between the Voortrekkers and the Pondo, a tribe whose territory lay between Natalia and the Cape Colony led to the British occupying Port Natal, the subsequent Battle of Congella followed by the siege and relief of the port. After the port had been relieved, the Voortrekkers withdrew from KwaZulu-Natal into the interior and the British established the Colony of Natal.
"Narrative of the Entrance of the 'Conch' at Port Natal" by Capt. William Douglas Bell, printed by the Natal Mercury, Durban 1869.
"Annals of Natal" Vol 1 & 11 : J. Bird Rosemary Dixon-Smith, great-great-granddaughter of Captain Bell, first Port Captain of Natal.
The
Durban Old Fort was set up when British forces and Durban inhabitants were
beseiged by the Boers in 1842. The Fort commemorates the ride to Grahamstown by
Dick King (26 May 1842) to raise relief, has the St Peter in Chains Chapel,
formerly the magazine, the Moths Museum and many other historical displays.
Regrettably the site is being neglected by the Ethekweni Municipality and some
of the exhibits in danger of disappearing.
Port Durnford in Natal,
discovered 1852 and Fort Durnford, built by his nephew, were named after him.
3. Catherine
Jemima Durnford
Catherine was born 3rd February 1806 and baptised 19th February 1809 in Warfield Berkshire in England. Catherine died 8th October 1820 at St John Marylebone. Her address was Queen Ann Street London.
Catherine was born 3rd February 1806 and baptised 19th February 1809 in Warfield Berkshire in England. Catherine died 8th October 1820 at St John Marylebone. Her address was Queen Ann Street London.
4.
Arthur Gifford Durnford
Arthur was born 1809 in
Brockhill in Surrey. He became a minister and he married Marianne Wiffen
in 1839 in Essex.
They had 13 children
Anthony Yates Durnford 1842 - 1843
Marion Durnford 1842 m Newnham Philpott
James Poole Oates Durnford 1845 - 1919 m Woodward
Sophia Bestard Durnford 1846 - 1903
Georgina Harriet Pellow Durnford 1848 - 1935 m Thomas Henry Griffinhoofe
Katrine Brabazon Durnford 1849 - 1849
Madeline Durnford 1850 - 1851
Lucy Isaacson Durnford 1854 - 1939 m Fletcher Ivens
Kathleen Durnford 1857
Mable Montague Bockett Durnford 1859 1864
Julia Maude Dunford 1860 - 1879
Arthur Gifford Durnford 1864 1864
They lived in Hindolveston in Norfolk. He died December 1886 she died in 1864, possibly in childbirth. All the children carried interesting middle names. Usually it is the name of a grandparent or g.ggrandparent, and with these children it has taken some time to work out the connections.
The name Yates is Marianne's Grandmother - Isabelle Yates who married Henry Wiffen
Their son was Henry Yates Wiffen and he married Elizabeth. Parents of Marianne.
Going on the surnames, Oates should be the name of Marianne's mother Elizabeth.
Which leave Poole, Pellow and Bestard and Brockett. There was a habit also in the Durnford's to name their children after famous Military figures.
Bastard and his brother were at Plymouth, and quelled a riot. As well as military they were Members of Parliament. Pellow was a very strong Military family, being Governor General of India, and in the Navy, Bastard was the godfather of one of the Pellows.
John Halsey Bockett was the son of John Bockett and Martha Halsey John married Rebekah Bradney and their daughter Frances married Rev Thomas William Barlow, the Prebendary of Bristol
who was the son of William Barlow.
His brother Sir George Hilaro Barlow married Elizabeth Smith. They had a large family and the eldest daughter Eliza Harriett Barlow married Pownoll Bastard Pellow the 2nd Count of Exmouth.
The Bocketts were a Quaker Family as was the Wiffen.
They had 13 children
Anthony Yates Durnford 1842 - 1843
Marion Durnford 1842 m Newnham Philpott
James Poole Oates Durnford 1845 - 1919 m Woodward
Sophia Bestard Durnford 1846 - 1903
Georgina Harriet Pellow Durnford 1848 - 1935 m Thomas Henry Griffinhoofe
Katrine Brabazon Durnford 1849 - 1849
Madeline Durnford 1850 - 1851
Lucy Isaacson Durnford 1854 - 1939 m Fletcher Ivens
Kathleen Durnford 1857
Mable Montague Bockett Durnford 1859 1864
Julia Maude Dunford 1860 - 1879
Arthur Gifford Durnford 1864 1864
They lived in Hindolveston in Norfolk. He died December 1886 she died in 1864, possibly in childbirth. All the children carried interesting middle names. Usually it is the name of a grandparent or g.ggrandparent, and with these children it has taken some time to work out the connections.
The name Yates is Marianne's Grandmother - Isabelle Yates who married Henry Wiffen
Their son was Henry Yates Wiffen and he married Elizabeth. Parents of Marianne.
Going on the surnames, Oates should be the name of Marianne's mother Elizabeth.
Which leave Poole, Pellow and Bestard and Brockett. There was a habit also in the Durnford's to name their children after famous Military figures.
Bastard and his brother were at Plymouth, and quelled a riot. As well as military they were Members of Parliament. Pellow was a very strong Military family, being Governor General of India, and in the Navy, Bastard was the godfather of one of the Pellows.
John Halsey Bockett was the son of John Bockett and Martha Halsey John married Rebekah Bradney and their daughter Frances married Rev Thomas William Barlow, the Prebendary of Bristol
who was the son of William Barlow.
His brother Sir George Hilaro Barlow married Elizabeth Smith. They had a large family and the eldest daughter Eliza Harriett Barlow married Pownoll Bastard Pellow the 2nd Count of Exmouth.
The Bocketts were a Quaker Family as was the Wiffen.
Harriet was born
1810 in London she married Nov 1830 to Capt Charles Gerard King in Chatham
England. Capt Charles Gerard King was
born in 1801 in Vella Eas Indies, and he died November 1855 in Istanbul in
Turkey.
Their children
Arthur Charles Alpin King b 1833 in Chatham
Barbara Catherine King b 1835
Pauline D'Estrade King b 1839 Drakes Island in England d 1911 in York Ontario
Florence Harriet Barbara King b 1840 England d 1881 Muskoka Ontario m Rev Joseph Cole
Edward William Durnford King b 1842
Louisa Alice King b 1843 Kent
Charles Gerard King b 1845 d 1920 Muskoka Canada m Priscilla Dangerfield
Georgina Metcalfe King b 1850 d 1921 Welland Ontario m George Rodney Owen
Harriet Barbara Durnford wrote a book 'Letters from Muskoka', by an Emigrant Lady. The book was published in 1878 and is a record of her experiences as a pioneer woman living in the "bush" of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.[1]
Notes from Internet search......................
It sounds like the premise of a 19th-century reality show: a British lady accustomed to servants, tea and whiling away the hours with embroidery is plunked into the Muskoka bush in 1871, where she lives in a cabin missing a door, fights an endless plague of mosquitoes and chases cows from the cabbage plants.
She may not be suited for the bush, but our 61-year-old widowed protagonist has a dry wit. “The pleasure of a solitary walk is greatly impaired by the vague terror of a stray bear confronting you on the pathway,” she writes.
In 1871, Harriet Barbara Durnford King, daughter of a prominent British military family, leaves Calais, France, a city that has been a shelter for her and her family during “fifteen years of widowhood.” The Franco-Prussian War, now finished, has disrupted her life. Harriet has an adult son making a go of it in Canada and she, along with three of her other children, is convinced to join him in this magical El Dorado called Muskoka.
She is courageous, she is miserable and she nearly starves. She writes it all down in Letters from Muskoka, credited to an anonymous “emigrant lady,” which is published in 1878.
Their children
Arthur Charles Alpin King b 1833 in Chatham
Barbara Catherine King b 1835
Pauline D'Estrade King b 1839 Drakes Island in England d 1911 in York Ontario
Florence Harriet Barbara King b 1840 England d 1881 Muskoka Ontario m Rev Joseph Cole
Edward William Durnford King b 1842
Louisa Alice King b 1843 Kent
Charles Gerard King b 1845 d 1920 Muskoka Canada m Priscilla Dangerfield
Georgina Metcalfe King b 1850 d 1921 Welland Ontario m George Rodney Owen
Harriet Barbara Durnford wrote a book 'Letters from Muskoka', by an Emigrant Lady. The book was published in 1878 and is a record of her experiences as a pioneer woman living in the "bush" of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.[1]
Notes from Internet search......................
It sounds like the premise of a 19th-century reality show: a British lady accustomed to servants, tea and whiling away the hours with embroidery is plunked into the Muskoka bush in 1871, where she lives in a cabin missing a door, fights an endless plague of mosquitoes and chases cows from the cabbage plants.
She may not be suited for the bush, but our 61-year-old widowed protagonist has a dry wit. “The pleasure of a solitary walk is greatly impaired by the vague terror of a stray bear confronting you on the pathway,” she writes.
In 1871, Harriet Barbara Durnford King, daughter of a prominent British military family, leaves Calais, France, a city that has been a shelter for her and her family during “fifteen years of widowhood.” The Franco-Prussian War, now finished, has disrupted her life. Harriet has an adult son making a go of it in Canada and she, along with three of her other children, is convinced to join him in this magical El Dorado called Muskoka.
She is courageous, she is miserable and she nearly starves. She writes it all down in Letters from Muskoka, credited to an anonymous “emigrant lady,” which is published in 1878.
1.1
Anthony William Durnford
His life
in a Timeline[2]
1830
He
was born at Manorhamilton in Ireland, his schooling was in Ireland
1842 He went
to live with his uncle Thomas John Langley and his wife Emily in Dusseldorf in Germany for schooling.
Sept 1846
He entered Royal
Military Acadamy at Woolwich as a Cadet
27 June 1847
Cadet Lieutenant Royal Engineers
Served as Chief of Staff with the field force under the command of
Lt Col Mills
27 June 1848
He became 2nd Lieutenant in the Corp of Royal
Engineers.
July 1848
Posted to Chatham for further training at
the Corp's Headquarters at Chatham
Dec 1849
Posted to Scotland Edinburgh
Castle and Fort George
Oct 1851
Posted
to Ceylon, engaged in the harbour defences as Trincomalee.
7 Feb 1852
He became a 1st
Lieutenant
1854
He was promoted to Lieutenant
15 Sept 1854
He married Frances
Tranchell, daughter of Colonel Tranchell of the Ceylon Rifles,
grandddaughter of the King of
Sweden's Commissioner in Ceylon, Johannes
Tranchell
1855
In addition to his military duties, he was
appointed Assistant Commissioner of
Roads and
Civil Engineer to the Colony.
19 June 1855
Birth of son, Edward William Durnford
1856
Posted to Malta as Adjudant under his
father Col Edward Durnford
16 July 1856
Death of Edward William
Durnford
5 Jan 1857
Birth of
daughter Frances Elizabeth Mary Durnford is born on Malta
18 Mar 1858
Promoted as 2nd Captain
Served at Aldershot and Chatham
23 Sept 1859
Birth of daughter Julia
Catherine Brabazon Durnford at Alverstoke
April 1860
Death of
baby Julia Durnford
1860
Posted to Gibraltar in command of 27th
Company of Royal Engineers
5 Jan 1864
Promoted as 1st
Captain
Aug 1864
Returned to
England
Nov/Dec
Posted
to China. Landed in Ceylon severely ill from heat apoplexy and nervous
breakdown?
General Gordon a hero in Khartoum, assisted him in his recovery
Jan 1865
Raglan Barracks In
Portsmouth
- 1870
At Queenstown Harbour Ireland to maintain the forts (Cobh)
1871
Living at 7 Molesworth St Stoke Devenport
1871
Offered appointment with Royal Engineers in
South Africa
23 Jan 1872
Arrived in Cape Town
then to Port Elizabeth on Syria finally to King William's Town
1872
Worked in King William's Town
1872
Designed Fort Durnford and first Anglican
Church Little Bushman's River drift
Estcort
5 July 1872
Promoted as Major
Jan 1873
Ordered to Cape Town and stationed in
Cape Castle
May 1873
Posted to Pietermaritzburg
Aug 1873
Accompanied Theophilus Shepston Sec for Native
Affairs into KwaZul,
1 Sept 1873
Senior British
officer at the "coronation" of King Cetshwayo kaMpande
Sept 1873 Reported to Lieut Col. Thomas Milles 75th Stirlingshire
Regiment of Foot, senior
officer at Fort Napier.
Sept 73
Appointed
Chief of Staff with 55 Natal volunteers (carbines) 25 mounted Africans of
baTiokwa tribe - 17 with firearms and an
interpreter Elijah Kambule
7 Sept 1873
Commander of Natal under
the suppression of the rebellion of the Artain Zulu Tribes
until December
1873
4 Nov 1873
The battle of Bushman's Pass in Dreakkenburg Injured
Nov 1873
Appointed Acting
Colonial Engineer effective 1st November 1873
11 Dec 1873
Promoted as Lieut Colonel
1874
Fort Durnford constructed (built by
Jeromia Faulds)
1874
Worked with amaPutini men in
blocking mountain passes, and road work, with
many wishing
to volunteer for work with him
1875
Wolsely reprimanded him for his views
about the treatment of the locals
10 Oct 1875
Officially relived of his civil appointment by Capt Albert Henry Hime RE
27 May 1876
Returned to England Medical grounds, for specialist treatment
on his arm.
1876
Germany for spa treatment in Black
Forest, takes his daughter Frances
1877
Posted to Queenstown Harbour Ireland
to maintain the three forts..
1877
Re-appointed
Colonial Regiment Engineers Natal
8 Feb 1877
Returned to South Africa departed from Southampton on
Danube
10 Apr 1877
With Col Charles Knight Pearson of 2nd Battalion Regiment of Foot to
Newcastle
11 Apr 1877
Entered the Boer Republic under the guise of property
speculator to intelligence
15 Apr 1877
Arrived Pretoria, Shepstone had claimed Transvaal as a British colony on
12th
26 Apr 1877
Returned to Pietermaritzburg
1877
Frere the GG launches a propaganda
campaign against King Cetshwayo, his
intention to draw the amaZulu into war.
Feb 1878
Appointed as a
Commissioners to inquire into the disputed Natal-Zululand boundary
with John Shepstone Acting Sec for Native Affairs and Natal
attorney General
Michael Gallwey
March 1878
First meeting of the Commissioners at Natal - known as Rorke's Drift
11 April 1878
Conclusion of Commission
20 June 1878
Commission issues report in favour of the Zulu claim for title to the
land.
June 1878
Reports sent to Frere for approval. Findings were
not of his liking.
July 1878
Actions by the wives of a Zulu, resulted in an incursion
into Natal by Methlokazulu
kaSihayo and his followers. Frere saw that as to his advantage.
1878
Ordered to complete a feasibility
study of bridging the Tugela River.
1878
He recommended the formation of an
African corp. That was met with
opposition but
eventually permitted with the full knowledge of the Commander-in-
Chief of the British Army the Duke of Cambridge.
Oct 1878
After much debate permission was granted for 3 battalions
designated as Natal
Native Contingent, known as 1st Regiment under his command. These
men
held Anthony in high regard.
11 Dec 1878
Promoted to Brevet Colonel.
1 January
Received orders from Lord Chelmsford to remain at
Middle Drift until the invasion
scheduled for 11th January
11 Jan 1879
Met with Lord Chelmsford, with intelligence regarding the
Zulus obtained by
Luthran Bishop Hans Schreuder
13 Jan 1879
Received further updates from Schreuder about the
threat of a Zulu incursion at
Middle Drift
13 Jan 1879
He wrote to Chelmsford advising of the threat and that he
intended to meet the
enemy on the Zulu side of Middle Drift.
14 Jan 1879
2.00am preparations to leave at 4.00am
14 Jan 1879
Messenger arrives from Chelmsford forbidding the
intended meeting.
15 Jan 1879
Reports near Rorke's Drift with a hew companies of his N.N.C,
5 troops of the
N.N.H.and rocket battery under command
of Brevet Major Francis Broadfoot
Russell.
19 Jan 1879
Ordered to relocate immediately to the Zulu bank of Rorke's Drift
20 Jan 1879
No 3 Column reaches Isandlwana
21 Jan 1879
Chelmsford leaves on a two pronged reconnaissance to search for the Zulu
forces
21 Jan 1879
Contact with Zulu forces made, message to Chelmsford at Isandlwana
requesting reinforcements
22 Jan 1879
Clelmsford decided to divide No 3 Column, leaving half at Isandlwana and
marching with the other to meet the Zulus.
22 Jan 1879
In command of No 2 Column of the Expeditionary force at the Battle
of Isandlwana
22 Jan 1879
3.00am Lieut Horace Smith-Dorrien of 95th Regiment of Foot ordered to
return
to Rorke's
Drift, with orders for Durnford, instructing him to reinforce the camp
at Isandlwana
22 Jan
1879 7.00 am orders received Durnford moves towards Isandlwana
with the mounted
troops
22 Jan 1879
10.30 am Meets John Chard, Lieut 5th Company who informed him that
the Zulus had
been seen close to the camp.
He instructed Chard to inform the two NNC
companies to hurry to
Isandlwana.
22 Jan 1879
10am arrived at camp, with 250 NNH "D" company followed by the
rocket battery
At rear was Captain
Walter Stafford and his E company acting as baggage guard
22 Jan 1879
On hearing of more reports of increasing Zulu activity, Durnford decided
to
sweep the area, and asked Pulleine (who had been ordered to guard
the camp)
for some
Imperial infantry to assist. Pulleine refused.
22 Jan 1879
He sends two troops to the Nquthu plateau under the command of Captain W
Barton, and he
went with two troops of NNH, following was Major Russell and
the rocket battery and another company under
Captain Course.
22 Jan 1879
Zulus were encountered and the Battle ensued.
22 Jan
1879 Killed at Isandlwana along with his troops.
23 May 1879
His body found on the Battlefield 4 months after the fight.
Buried under a stone cairn
5 Oct 1879
Body interred, taken to Pietermaritzburg
12 Oct 1879
Buried in Fort Napier Cemetery
26th
January Blamed for not following
orders. Later proven without a shadow of
a doubt that this was a
coverup on behalf of Lord Chelmsford[3]
. A commemorative window to Col Anthony Durnford in
Rochester Cathedral in Kent was donated by his brother officers in the Royal
Engineers in 1880.
He had
one daughter, Frances, who married Nicholas McIvor Rapp. She died in 1919, and is buried at Dover
Cemetery, they had no children.
1.2 Edward Durnford
.2 Edward Congreave Langley Durnford
He entered the Royal Marines in 1851 and appointed to the Royal Marine Artillery in 1852. During the Crimean War he served on HMS James Watt in the Baltic and was present at the siege of and surrender of the Forts of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands off the south-west coast of Finland `He served briefly with the 2nd Company of the Royal Sappers and Miners.
He entered the Royal Marines in 1851 and appointed to the Royal Marine Artillery in 1852. During the Crimean War he served on HMS James Watt in the Baltic and was present at the siege of and surrender of the Forts of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands off the south-west coast of Finland `He served briefly with the 2nd Company of the Royal Sappers and Miners.
He was later appointed to the command of
mortar-boats and served during the bombardment of Sweaborg on August 9,
1855. For this service he was mentioned in dispatches and received the
Crimean War medal.
He served with the Baltic Expedition in 1855, and was in command of a mortar in the flotilla during the bombardment of Sveaborg.”
He served with the Baltic Expedition in 1855, and was in command of a mortar in the flotilla during the bombardment of Sveaborg.”
He subsequently served on HMS Forth until
1856. In 1862 he was promoted to Captain. From Sept. 1867 to May
1870 he was Staff Captain, Royal Marine Artillery and appointed to
Superintendent of Artificers.
He was in charge of all public works in progress at Eastney Barracks and Fort Cumberland. He was promoted to Brevet-Major in 1872 and promoted to (honorary) Lieutenant-Colonel on May 8, 1877 at his retirement.
He was in charge of all public works in progress at Eastney Barracks and Fort Cumberland. He was promoted to Brevet-Major in 1872 and promoted to (honorary) Lieutenant-Colonel on May 8, 1877 at his retirement.
From the moment he became aware of the death
of his brother Anthony, and the blame placed on him by Lord Chelmsford, Edward
left no stone unturned to find out the truth.
He knew his brother would have followed orders, due to 1873, Battle of
Bushman’s Pass.
He wrote a book in conjunction with Frances
Colenso, a friend of his brother Anthony William Durnford, as to his research
regarding the battle. This book should
be the first reference book for research into the Zulu Wars, but deals with the
events of the Battle.
Then, he wrote his findings in a book, in
1882. Later, he included a second
update, when miraculously the orders were found and shown to him.
However, between 1882 and 1886 there was a series
of investigations carried out by the Royal Engineers, in an effort to clear
their officer’s name. Edward
contributed, and pleaded with Prince George to have the official Narrative
change. The Prince told him to “cease”.
He was to write an update in 1886, but was
pressured, and that book did not eventuate.
But, the
Royal Engineers continued in their efforts, creating an Evidence File. That file lay hidden in a drawer in a filing
cupboard since 1930. The contents were
revealed in 2015, during my research.
They tell a very interesting story of the coverup. Subsequent investigations and information
provide the answers to why Prince George would not revisit the subject, and why
in the long term, the coverup which began in South Africa, was completed in
London.
These
findings, and follow up from Edwards 1882 research have been published in two
volumes
Durnford 1879 – Col Anthony
William Durnford – From Chatham to Isandlwana and
Durnford 1879 – Col Anthony
William Durnford – From Isandlwana to Chatham.
Edward
Congreave Langley Durnford married Julia Penrice had four children.
1.2.1 Julia Mabel Durnford
born 6 May 1861 d Feb 1952 She married Arthur
Lydekker
in Harpenden Hertfordshire 10t August 1882.
1.2.2 Edward William Durnford born 1863 died 1863
1.2.3 Edward Francis Penrice Durnford born July 1865 1954 in Lothingland, Suffolk
1.2.4 Maria Catherine Durnford born 1867 died 1867
1.2.2 Edward William Durnford born 1863 died 1863
1.2.3 Edward Francis Penrice Durnford born July 1865 1954 in Lothingland, Suffolk
1.2.4 Maria Catherine Durnford born 1867 died 1867
Arthur and Julia's children
1.2.1.1 Lionel Edward Lydekker m Margaret Robinson He was a Minister
1.2.1.2 Neville Wolfe Lydekker m Sylvia Palmer He was also a Minister and died in Terrys Cross Woodmancote Henfield Sussex
1.2.1.3 Guy Onslow Lydekker m Gladys Amelia Durnford
1.2.1.4 Cuthbert John Wolfe Lydekker m Clara Ann Margaret Griffith-Jones
Arthur Lydekker and Julia Mabel Durnford's son Guy Onslow Lydekker
1.2.1.3 Guy and Gladys had three children
1.2.1.3.1 Anthony John Guy Lydekker ``b 1914 d 1942
1.2.1.3.2 Patricia Hyacinth Lydekker `b 1916 d 1966
1.2.1.3.3 Ann Lydekker ` b 1925 d 2007
Guy and Gladys lived in Selsdon Surrey and he died June 1984. Gladys died 1972.
Guy enlisted in the
Royal Navy in World War I as a Lieutenant and was awarded the Crown of Italy
Medal for Gallantry. He was also awarded
the DSO. [4]
Biplane fighter aces CommonwealthLieutenant Anthony John Guy ‘Tony’ Lydekker DSC, RN
‘Tony’ Lydekker was born in 1914.
He was a qualified fighter pilot and had been serving as the Armament Officer on the Air Staff of HMS Furious since the recommissioning of the ship in 1939, and did so throughout 1940. Every RN carrier had an Armament Officer (the big ones had a staff of two), and without exception they were all qualified pilots.
He took part in the first expedition to Norway, which was a quick failure.
The second expedition got away when HMS Glorious and HMS Furious sailed from Britain at 20.30 on 14 May with an escort of four destroyers. En route one of the original 263 pilots, Pilot Officer Wyatt-Smith, suffered considerably from shrapnel wounds in his legs, which he had received during the evacuation from Andalsnes in Delius, and his place was taken by Lydekker, who volunteered. It was felt that Lydekker could be spared on HMS Furious and this was accepted.
263 Squadron flew off HMS Furious on 21 May to land at Bardufoss.
At 13:00 on 26 May three Gladiators flown by Flight Lieutenant Caesar Hull, Pilot Officer Jack Falkson and Lieutenant Lydekker were detached to Bodø to provide cover for troops retreating northwards in the face of the German advance. En route they were engaged in an inconclusive combat with one of the KGr 100 Heinkels on its way to Bardufoss. When they landed on their new airfield their aircraft all stuck fast in the mud. They managed to get the Gladiators to drier ground, where they began refuelling from four-gallon tins. This arduous task was by no means complete when a He 111 of 1(F)/122 was seen overhead, and all three leapt into their cockpits to take off.
Lydekker got off safely, but the mud clung to the wheels of the two following Gladiators, and while Hull just managed to get into the air, Falkson crashed in N5908. Lydekker’s aircraft had not yet been refuelled however, and he had little petrol left so Hull ordered him to land again and went after the Heinkel single-handed, finding it at only 600 feet and delivering three attacks. The bomber turned south, streaming smoke from the fuselage and engines. The Heinkel had been critically hit, and Leutnant Ulrich Meyer crash-landed the burning aircraft south of Mo. Here he and his crew were rescued by German troops.
Meanwhile Hull had broken away to attack a Ju 52/3m, which he just had spotted. He rapidly disposed of this second opponent, an aircraft of 1/KGzbV 106. The crew managed to bale out of the blazing aircraft (Ju 52/3m WNr. 5636), which crashed at Storfjellet, Saltdal, at 16:15.
Still with ammunition left, he chased a second He 111 without success, and then attacked two more Ju 52/3ms from 1/KGzbV 106. One escaped in cloud, but the other went flaming down after six men had baled out. Eight more paratroops of I/FJR1 were killed in the crash. While he thought the other transport had got away, it was in fact also hard hit, and was already on fire. The pilot managed to reach German-held territory, where he force-landed.
He was a qualified fighter pilot and had been serving as the Armament Officer on the Air Staff of HMS Furious since the recommissioning of the ship in 1939, and did so throughout 1940. Every RN carrier had an Armament Officer (the big ones had a staff of two), and without exception they were all qualified pilots.
He took part in the first expedition to Norway, which was a quick failure.
The second expedition got away when HMS Glorious and HMS Furious sailed from Britain at 20.30 on 14 May with an escort of four destroyers. En route one of the original 263 pilots, Pilot Officer Wyatt-Smith, suffered considerably from shrapnel wounds in his legs, which he had received during the evacuation from Andalsnes in Delius, and his place was taken by Lydekker, who volunteered. It was felt that Lydekker could be spared on HMS Furious and this was accepted.
263 Squadron flew off HMS Furious on 21 May to land at Bardufoss.
At 13:00 on 26 May three Gladiators flown by Flight Lieutenant Caesar Hull, Pilot Officer Jack Falkson and Lieutenant Lydekker were detached to Bodø to provide cover for troops retreating northwards in the face of the German advance. En route they were engaged in an inconclusive combat with one of the KGr 100 Heinkels on its way to Bardufoss. When they landed on their new airfield their aircraft all stuck fast in the mud. They managed to get the Gladiators to drier ground, where they began refuelling from four-gallon tins. This arduous task was by no means complete when a He 111 of 1(F)/122 was seen overhead, and all three leapt into their cockpits to take off.
Lydekker got off safely, but the mud clung to the wheels of the two following Gladiators, and while Hull just managed to get into the air, Falkson crashed in N5908. Lydekker’s aircraft had not yet been refuelled however, and he had little petrol left so Hull ordered him to land again and went after the Heinkel single-handed, finding it at only 600 feet and delivering three attacks. The bomber turned south, streaming smoke from the fuselage and engines. The Heinkel had been critically hit, and Leutnant Ulrich Meyer crash-landed the burning aircraft south of Mo. Here he and his crew were rescued by German troops.
Meanwhile Hull had broken away to attack a Ju 52/3m, which he just had spotted. He rapidly disposed of this second opponent, an aircraft of 1/KGzbV 106. The crew managed to bale out of the blazing aircraft (Ju 52/3m WNr. 5636), which crashed at Storfjellet, Saltdal, at 16:15.
Still with ammunition left, he chased a second He 111 without success, and then attacked two more Ju 52/3ms from 1/KGzbV 106. One escaped in cloud, but the other went flaming down after six men had baled out. Eight more paratroops of I/FJR1 were killed in the crash. While he thought the other transport had got away, it was in fact also hard hit, and was already on fire. The pilot managed to reach German-held territory, where he force-landed.
Crew and paratroops aboard all got out safely, but the aircraft burnt out completely. One Ju 52/3m was ‘BA+KH’ of 1/KGbzV 106, which crashed at Ekornes, Evensdal, at 16:30 while the second was “White 2” (WNr. 6713) from the same unit, which crashed at Kvassteinheia, Saltdal, between 16:30-16:40.
Meantime Hull had engaged yet another He 111, and drove this off, like the first with smoke pouring from it. Down now to only one nose gun still operating, he returned to Bodø where he found that during his absence wooden snow-boards had been laid over the worst of the soft patches. Although he claimed only two definite and one probable victories, he had in fact shot down no less than four aircraft in one combat.
At 08:00 in the morning on 27 May things started to heating up when 11 Ju 87Rs from I/STG 1, escorted by three Bf 110s from I/ZG 76, appeared over Bodø and began dive-bombing radio masts at Bodøsjøen, only 800 yards from the landing ground. Lieutenant Lydekker took off at once, but Caesar Hull and a fitter were forced to leave his Gladiator (N5635) for a few minutes and shelter from the bombing. With the initial attack over they managed to get the fighter started and Hull took off, at once catching Feldwebel Kurt Zube's Stuka at the bottom of its dive. He caused it to fall in a gentle dive into the sea, where two Bf 110s circled the wreckage. Zube and his gunner were picked up safely by German troops.
As Hull completed his attack, another Ju 87 went past and shot up his aircraft, smashing the windscreen. At the same moment he was attacked from behind by one of the escorts, flown by Leutnant Helmut Lent, and the Gladiator was hard hit. Hull managed to get back to the airfield at 200 feet, but was then attacked again by the Bf 110 and crashed at Bodøhalvøya, wounded in the head and knee. N5635 has been identified by serial number found on the wreckage. Lent logged his victory at 08:20 (Helmut Lent shot down another 263 Squadron Gladiator on 2 June when Pilot Officer J. L. Wilkie in N5914 was killed east of Rombaksfjorden).
Lydekker meanwhile was being attacked by most of the remaining Luftwaffe aircraft, his aircraft being badly shot up and himself wounded in the neck and shoulders. Unable to land at Bodø as three Stukas were circling overhead, he set course for Bardufoss at low level, where he eventually landed with his Gladiator a complete write-off. A second claim for a Gladiator was put in by Oberleutnant Jäger, shared with his gunner Stabsing. Thönes, and timed at 08:25, but this was not confirmed. Watchers on the ground at Bodø reported that the Gladiators had shot down at least three aircraft, Hull and Lydekker each having got at least one apiece. This was not in fact the case, for only one Ju 87 had been lost.
To see a copy of his combat report from 26 and 27 May follow this link: C. B. Hull Combat report (kindly provided by Ernie Burton).
He was evacuated to the UK. After recovering from his injuries he returned to his duty as the Armament Officer on the Air Staff of HMS Furious.
Later in the war he served as a member of the Air Staff of HMS Avenger.
On 15 November 1942 this ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-155 off Gibraltar. Most of the crew on the ship went missing and presumed killed, Lydekker being one of these (together with Lieutenant (A) Patrick Wilfred Villiers Massy).
At the time of his death Lydekker was credited with 1 biplane victory.
Lieutenant Anthony John Guy LYDEKKER
DSC RN Fleet Air Arm Imperial
Service College 1928.3 - 1932.2
He was born 1 June 1914. Son of Captain G. Lydekker OBE DSC RN. He was a qualified fighter pilot and had been serving as the Armament Officer on the Air Staff of HMS Furious since the re-commissioning of the ship in 1939, and did so throughout 1940. He piloted a Gloucester Gladiator from HMS Furious on the 2nd expedition in May 1940 to Norway. At 13:00 on 26 May three Gladiators flown by Flight Lieutenant Caesar Hull, Pilot Officer Jack Falkson and Lieutenant Lydekker were detached to Bodø to provide cover for troops retreating northwards in the face of the German advance. En route they were engaged in an inconclusive combat with one of the KGr 100 Heinkels on its way to Bardufoss. When they landed on their new airfield their aircraft all stuck fast in the mud. They managed to get the Gladiators to drier ground, where they began refuelling from four-gallon tins. This arduous task was by no means complete when a He111 of 1(F)/122 was seen overhead, and all three leapt into their cockpits to take off. At 08:00 in the morning on 27 May things started heating up when 11 Ju87Rs from I/STG 1, escorted by three Bf110s from I/ZG 76, appeared over Bodø and began dive-bombing the radio masts at Bodøsjøen, only 800 yards from the landing ground. Lieutenant Lydekker took off at once. He shot down one of the raiders. Meanwhile Lydekker was being attacked by most of the remaining Luftwaffe aircraft, his aircraft being badly shot up and himself wounded in the neck and shoulders. Unable to land at Bodø as three Stukas were circling overhead, he set course for Bardufoss at low level, where he eventually landed with his Gladiator a complete write-off.
He was evacuated to the UK. After recovering from his injuries he returned to his duty as the Armament Officer on the Air Staff of HMS Furious. Later in the war he served as a member of the Air Staff of HMS Avenger. On 15 November 1942 this ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-155 off Gibraltar. Most of the crew on the ship went missing and presumed killed, Lydekker being one of these.
ANTHONY JOHN GUY LYDEKKER DSC
He was born 1 June 1914. Son of Captain G. Lydekker OBE DSC RN. He was a qualified fighter pilot and had been serving as the Armament Officer on the Air Staff of HMS Furious since the re-commissioning of the ship in 1939, and did so throughout 1940. He piloted a Gloucester Gladiator from HMS Furious on the 2nd expedition in May 1940 to Norway. At 13:00 on 26 May three Gladiators flown by Flight Lieutenant Caesar Hull, Pilot Officer Jack Falkson and Lieutenant Lydekker were detached to Bodø to provide cover for troops retreating northwards in the face of the German advance. En route they were engaged in an inconclusive combat with one of the KGr 100 Heinkels on its way to Bardufoss. When they landed on their new airfield their aircraft all stuck fast in the mud. They managed to get the Gladiators to drier ground, where they began refuelling from four-gallon tins. This arduous task was by no means complete when a He111 of 1(F)/122 was seen overhead, and all three leapt into their cockpits to take off. At 08:00 in the morning on 27 May things started heating up when 11 Ju87Rs from I/STG 1, escorted by three Bf110s from I/ZG 76, appeared over Bodø and began dive-bombing the radio masts at Bodøsjøen, only 800 yards from the landing ground. Lieutenant Lydekker took off at once. He shot down one of the raiders. Meanwhile Lydekker was being attacked by most of the remaining Luftwaffe aircraft, his aircraft being badly shot up and himself wounded in the neck and shoulders. Unable to land at Bodø as three Stukas were circling overhead, he set course for Bardufoss at low level, where he eventually landed with his Gladiator a complete write-off.
He was evacuated to the UK. After recovering from his injuries he returned to his duty as the Armament Officer on the Air Staff of HMS Furious. Later in the war he served as a member of the Air Staff of HMS Avenger. On 15 November 1942 this ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-155 off Gibraltar. Most of the crew on the ship went missing and presumed killed, Lydekker being one of these.
ANTHONY JOHN GUY LYDEKKER DSC
Lieutenant H.M.S. Avenger, Royal Navy
who died on Sunday 15 November 1942 . Age 28 .
Additional Information: Son of Captain Guy Onslow Lydekker, O.B.E, D.S.C., R.N., and Gladwys Amelia Lydekker; husband of Valerie Lydekker. Cemetery: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL Hampshire, United Kingdom Grave or Reference Panel Number: Bay 3, Panel 1.
1.2.3.2 Patricia Hycinth Lydekker was born in 1916 She have died in 1966
She had an interesting life. She married in 1936 Belgian Andre Jean Robert Janssen
Born 14th July 1911 - La Hulpe He was a manufacturer from Belgium. Both travelled to various ports. He died in 1971, and married a second time.
In July 1946 she married Major Anthony Patrick Ness. He was born in 1914, and died in 1993.
He was reported to be the Mayor of Berkshire, (maybe a town in Berkshire). He also enjoyed and had a Royal Aero Certificate.
He was in the Military in the Queens Bays 2nd Dragoon Guards, and in 1943 Captain of the Royal Armoured Corps Dragoon Guards. After Patricia died he married Brigid Katherine Rachel Guiness who had been married to Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Hohenzollern of Prussia. He drowned 19 June 1966
1.2.3.3 Ann Lydekker born 1925 she married Rupert T.B. Fellowes in Kensington in 1952.
Ann died in 2007 in Wiltshire.
1.2.1.4 Cuthbert John Wolfe Lydekker. Born 1891 died 1948 m Clara Ann Margaret Griffith-Jones. Cuthbert was a 2nd Lieut in Royal Field Artillery in World War 1.
After the war he married Clare
Ann Margaret Griffith-Jones in March 1920. Cuthebert Lydekker was a civil
servant in Kenya in 1923
Their son
1.2.1.4.1 John Ryck Wolfe Lydekker who was born 1921 and enlisted in World War 2. He was in the Navy and died heroically on the HMCS Weyburn.
1.3 Annabella Barbara Durnford
Annabella was born in Ireland in 1834, and with the family
lived in Glasgow while her father was on duty. She married in
1858 Colonel Edward Lloyd of Royal Engineers
He was born in Madras, his father must have also been in the Army and was stationed there.
He served in the Royal Engineers and was at the Battle of Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
He was born in Madras, his father must have also been in the Army and was stationed there.
He served in the Royal Engineers and was at the Battle of Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
Edward and Annabella's Children
1.3.1 Annabella Maria Lloyd 22 August 1854 bap 1859, in Ireland and who did not marry
d 1938
1.3.2 Charles Edward Lloyd 12 June 1862 a Major born St George Bermuda
Served in Indian Staff Corp 1897 d
1.3.3 Louisa Harriet Lloyd January 1864 Chorlton Lancashire Was a nurse in 1901 unmarried
d 1948
1.3.4 Francis Augusta Lloyd 21 January 1866 Donnybrook Dublin Born in England
1.3.5 William St Aubyn Lloyd 9 September 1867 born Stoke Devonm Hilda Blanche Laffoley
He was a veterinary assistant She was the daughter of Charles Laffoley an auctioneer, they lived at St Savior Jersey
1.3.6 Henry Durnford Lloyd 24 Oct 1869 Jersey St Helior married Ada Emily Wadge from St Helior Jersey d 1 June 1940 They had children
1.3.7 Violet Ethelwyn Lloyd 1873 Jersey St Helior d 1927
1.3.1 Annabella Maria Lloyd 22 August 1854 bap 1859, in Ireland and who did not marry
d 1938
1.3.2 Charles Edward Lloyd 12 June 1862 a Major born St George Bermuda
Served in Indian Staff Corp 1897 d
1.3.3 Louisa Harriet Lloyd January 1864 Chorlton Lancashire Was a nurse in 1901 unmarried
d 1948
1.3.4 Francis Augusta Lloyd 21 January 1866 Donnybrook Dublin Born in England
1.3.5 William St Aubyn Lloyd 9 September 1867 born Stoke Devonm Hilda Blanche Laffoley
He was a veterinary assistant She was the daughter of Charles Laffoley an auctioneer, they lived at St Savior Jersey
1.3.6 Henry Durnford Lloyd 24 Oct 1869 Jersey St Helior married Ada Emily Wadge from St Helior Jersey d 1 June 1940 They had children
1.3.7 Violet Ethelwyn Lloyd 1873 Jersey St Helior d 1927
Henry and Ada had four children:
Richard Durnford Lloyd d 1973 John Durnford Lloyd b 1914 Edward Henry Durnford Lloyd Barbara Elizabeth Durnford Lloyd Richard Durnford Lloyd - Lance Corporal appointed 1941. In 1964 Member of Courts in Jersey |
Richard Durnford Lloyd, educated at Victoria College,
called to the English and Jersey Bars in 1937, served in the Colonial Legal
Service in Nigeria and Malta He died in 1973 at Samares
St Clement.
Annabella left her estate, when she died to Lloyd's Bank.
St Clement.
Annabella left her estate, when she died to Lloyd's Bank.
The Durnford family notes advise he was a Captain in India
Staff Corp and died in 1897.
However, there are no searchable records to confirm this.
However, there are no searchable records to confirm this.
1.4 Catherine Jemima Durnford
Catherine
was born 1836 and died 1904. She married Rev William Chessborough LePoer
Kennedy. William was an extremely clever
man, who traced the family tree while studying at Trinity College in Dublin
around 1856. He died in 1865.
1.4.1 Herbert John Whiteside MacKenzie Kennedy born 1 Feb 1858 in Ireland (Feb)
1.4.2. Chessborough Gordon MacKenzie Kennedy born 3 Oct 1858 in Ireland (Oct)
1.4.3. Edward Charles William MacKenzie Kennedy born 6 July 1863
In 1870 she married Dr John William Moore Miller He had been married to Catherine Bowman in India in 1852, she died in 1869. He then married Catherine. He died in 1884 in Hampshire
They had a daughter
1.4.4 Lillian Frances Throckmorton Moore
Miller
Lillian married in 1904 Arthur James Barton at St John's Blackheath, Greenwich She died in June 1948 in Devon.
1.4.1 Herbert John Whiteside Mac-Kenzie Kennedy He was married in 1858 to Sara Bisdee on 26 December 1881 in Agra Bengal in India. Her father was John Bisdee, of Hutton Park Tasmania.
He died 7 July 1914 in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. Sarah died 1934. Herbert was a Lieut in 2nd Battalion of the Norfolk (late 9th) Regiment.
Lillian married in 1904 Arthur James Barton at St John's Blackheath, Greenwich She died in June 1948 in Devon.
1.4.1 Herbert John Whiteside Mac-Kenzie Kennedy He was married in 1858 to Sara Bisdee on 26 December 1881 in Agra Bengal in India. Her father was John Bisdee, of Hutton Park Tasmania.
He died 7 July 1914 in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. Sarah died 1934. Herbert was a Lieut in 2nd Battalion of the Norfolk (late 9th) Regiment.
Children
included
Daisy Blanche Marion MacKenzie Kennedy 1883 - 1951 m Charles Douglas Roe OBE, DSO, Lieut Col Indian Army born 1882 in 1883 at Bakloh Puyal India
Ivy Mariette MacKenzie Kennedy 1885 1955 b in Benares in India died Aug 1955 in Kenya
Kenneth Edward Bisdee MacKenzie Kennedy 1886 - 1958 b Benares India died in Umkomaas South Africa. He married Irene Charlotte Montefiore Binsteed in 1912 in London. He was in the military
Winifred Rose Gordon MacKenzie Kennedy 1889 - 1996 b Old Mixon in Somerset m Frank Etheridge MacKenzie in 1906 in India
Violet Maud Emily MacKenzie Kennedy 1891 - 1969 m Walter MacGregor Petrie 1913
John Graeme Bowen MacKenzie Kennedy 1899 - 1922 Born 1899 Mussoorie in India and died 7 August 1922, in Cork. The time was the start of "The Troubles" as they call it in Ireland.
Daisy Blanche Marion MacKenzie Kennedy 1883 - 1951 m Charles Douglas Roe OBE, DSO, Lieut Col Indian Army born 1882 in 1883 at Bakloh Puyal India
Ivy Mariette MacKenzie Kennedy 1885 1955 b in Benares in India died Aug 1955 in Kenya
Kenneth Edward Bisdee MacKenzie Kennedy 1886 - 1958 b Benares India died in Umkomaas South Africa. He married Irene Charlotte Montefiore Binsteed in 1912 in London. He was in the military
Winifred Rose Gordon MacKenzie Kennedy 1889 - 1996 b Old Mixon in Somerset m Frank Etheridge MacKenzie in 1906 in India
Violet Maud Emily MacKenzie Kennedy 1891 - 1969 m Walter MacGregor Petrie 1913
John Graeme Bowen MacKenzie Kennedy 1899 - 1922 Born 1899 Mussoorie in India and died 7 August 1922, in Cork. The time was the start of "The Troubles" as they call it in Ireland.
1.4.2 Chessborough
Gordon MacKenzie Kennedy m 1879 Ethel Helen Slane (widow) in
Dhubri West Bengal in India.
He was appointed Deputy-Commissioner in Assam in 1897 and died in 1898 in Nowgong Assam India, during an earthquake. Ethel died in 1936 in London
Their children
1.4.2.1 Francis Emma Margaret Kennedy 1881 In India unmarried and died in Sicily 1951
1.4.2. 2 Sybil Alice Mary MacKenzie Kennedy 1882 In India unmarried Died 1937 London
1.4.2.3 Mildred Isabel May MacKenzie Kennedy 1885 India unmarried and died 1844 London
1.4.2.4 Chessborough James Henry MacKenzie-Kennedy who was born in 1886
1.4.2.4 Chessborough James Henry MacKenzie-Kennedy was the first inventor of the giant aircraft, he married Zinaida Koriakoff in St Petersburg Russia in 1910. He emigrated to US, in 1939 and was naturalised. He died in the US in 1942.
He was appointed Deputy-Commissioner in Assam in 1897 and died in 1898 in Nowgong Assam India, during an earthquake. Ethel died in 1936 in London
Their children
1.4.2.1 Francis Emma Margaret Kennedy 1881 In India unmarried and died in Sicily 1951
1.4.2. 2 Sybil Alice Mary MacKenzie Kennedy 1882 In India unmarried Died 1937 London
1.4.2.3 Mildred Isabel May MacKenzie Kennedy 1885 India unmarried and died 1844 London
1.4.2.4 Chessborough James Henry MacKenzie-Kennedy who was born in 1886
1.4.2.4 Chessborough James Henry MacKenzie-Kennedy was the first inventor of the giant aircraft, he married Zinaida Koriakoff in St Petersburg Russia in 1910. He emigrated to US, in 1939 and was naturalised. He died in the US in 1942.
Mr Chessborough Henry James Mackenzie-Kennedy 1886-1942 The
first inventor of the giant aeroplane , who is suing the air council 30
December 1925
The Kennedy Giant was a British biplane heavy bomber designed by Kennedy Aeroplanes Ltd. during the First World War. The design was an imitation of works by Igor Sikorsky, with whom the owner of Kennedy Aeroplanes Ltd., C. J. H. Mackenzie-Kennedy, had ostensibly worked prior to setting up the company. The aeroplane was a notorious failure; its size meant that construction had to take place in an open field as none of the hangars near Hayes, Middlesex, where the prototype was assembled, were large enough to house it. For its weight, the aircraft's four engines were inadequate, and the resulting under-powered aircraft could only fly in a straight line once airborne.
Following the unimpressive test flight, the design was cancelled and the prototype was left derelict at Northolt Aerodrome for a number of years.
The product of a gifted young man, Chessborough J H Mackenzie-Kennedy, the Giant was of impressive proportions, but of doubtful structural integrity and badly underpowered. As an eighteen-year-old and with three pounds in his pocket, Kennedy had left England for Russia, convinced of aviation's future and, in particular, the potential of very large aeroplanes.
In 1908 he completed the design of Russia's first aeroplane, and formed the Kennedy Aeronautic Company the following year. Becoming associated with Igor Sikorskii in 1911, he was involved in the design of the first Sikorskii four-engine biplanes before returning to England on the outbreak of war.
Kennedv discussed his ideas for very large aeroplanes with the War Office, by which he was promised support, and established his design office at 102 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, together with T W K Clarke, G C McClaughlin and E A Vessey.
The Kennedy Giant was a British biplane heavy bomber designed by Kennedy Aeroplanes Ltd. during the First World War. The design was an imitation of works by Igor Sikorsky, with whom the owner of Kennedy Aeroplanes Ltd., C. J. H. Mackenzie-Kennedy, had ostensibly worked prior to setting up the company. The aeroplane was a notorious failure; its size meant that construction had to take place in an open field as none of the hangars near Hayes, Middlesex, where the prototype was assembled, were large enough to house it. For its weight, the aircraft's four engines were inadequate, and the resulting under-powered aircraft could only fly in a straight line once airborne.
Following the unimpressive test flight, the design was cancelled and the prototype was left derelict at Northolt Aerodrome for a number of years.
The product of a gifted young man, Chessborough J H Mackenzie-Kennedy, the Giant was of impressive proportions, but of doubtful structural integrity and badly underpowered. As an eighteen-year-old and with three pounds in his pocket, Kennedy had left England for Russia, convinced of aviation's future and, in particular, the potential of very large aeroplanes.
In 1908 he completed the design of Russia's first aeroplane, and formed the Kennedy Aeronautic Company the following year. Becoming associated with Igor Sikorskii in 1911, he was involved in the design of the first Sikorskii four-engine biplanes before returning to England on the outbreak of war.
Kennedv discussed his ideas for very large aeroplanes with the War Office, by which he was promised support, and established his design office at 102 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, together with T W K Clarke, G C McClaughlin and E A Vessey.
He personally financed the building of the plane, and in 1920,
the British Government gave him 115K pounds for the work on his invention.
He was still 100K out of pocket. He was bankrupted in 1924,
according to the newspapers. However he
seemed to bounce back because in 1927, at a Textile Trade Show, he showed his
latest invention Garter Skirts.
He and his wife had a son who was born in Petregad Russia 23 March 1911 and died July 1948.
He and his wife had a son who was born in Petregad Russia 23 March 1911 and died July 1948.
Chessborough Vladimir James MacKenzie Kennedy was a Charted
Mechanical Engineer.He married Jane McKibbin and they lived in York.
They had a son Colin Chessborough MacKenzie Kennedy, who died in 2002.
1.4.2.3 Edward Charles William MacKenzie Kennedy m Ethel Fuller in September 1888. Ethel was the daughter of Major Fuller of the 4th Madras Pioneers. Edward was appointed 1897 as a Major in 1st Madras Pioneers, He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1910
Edward and Ethel had three children
1.4.2.3.1 Henry Charles Donald Cleveland MacKenzie Kennedy born 1889 in Hastings
Sir Donald C. Mackenzie-Kennedy (1889 - 1965) was a British colonial administrator who was Governor of Nyasaland between 1939 and 1942, and 25th Governor of Mauritius from 5 July 1942 to 5 December 1948. (Nyasaland is now known as Malawi)
In July 1942, Sir Charles Donald Cleveland Mackenzie Kennedy (better known as DMK), will take over the administration of Mauritius. He will bring political change, culminating in the grant of the December 1947 Constitution leading to the general elections of August 1948, which will completely change the political scenario of Mauritius.
In 1930, Mackenzie-Kennedy was Chief Secretary of Northern Rhodesia. He was urged to deny the Ndola Welfare Association permission to meet, since mine owner might react unfavorably to an organization such as this being led by civil servants. In June 1935, Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote to Sir Stewart Gore-Browne urging him to stand for election in Broken Hill. He said "Your duty is clear".
In Malawi 20 Mar 1939 - 8 Aug 1942
He married Mildred Munday. He died in 1965, in Natal,
South Africa.
1.4.2.3.2 Colin George Edmund MacKenzie Kennedy
He was born in India, and then attended Officer Training College in the Navy in Marlborough UK.
He travelled to Canada, and joined the Canadian Military.
1.4.2.3.3
Irene MacKenzie Kennedy born 1891 - 1970
1.4.2.3.4 Archibald Gordon MacKenzie Kennedy born 1904 and lived and died in Kircudbright, (a lovely little town in Scotland on the West Coast) in 1987.
1.4.2.3.4 Archibald Gordon MacKenzie Kennedy born 1904 and lived and died in Kircudbright, (a lovely little town in Scotland on the West Coast) in 1987.
1.5. Col. Arthur George Durnford R.E.
Arthur was born in Westport in Ireland. He entered the Royal Engineers on June 21, 1856. He served at Chatham until 1857, Ireland until May 1859 and then Gibraltar until 1864. From 1860 to 1864 he was Adjutant at Gibraltar.
On his return to England he was with 40th Depot Company at Chatham and transferred to the 10th Co. at Shorncliffe in 1865 and then 33rd Co. at Malta. He was promoted to Captain in 1866. While in Malta he served under his father.
Between May 1870 to July 1882 he was posted at Aldershot, command of B Troup, command of the C Troop, Dover, Instructor at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham. He was promoted to Major in 1873, Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel in 1881 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1882.
In July 1882 he was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer at Shorncliffe, and 1883 Assistant Director of Works at the War Office.
*In November. 1884 he accompanied the Bechuanaland expedition. He was promoted Colonel in July 1, 1885.
In 1889 he was appointed Colonel on the Staff and Commanding Royal Engineer of the North-Western District (England) and subsequently transferred in the same capacity to the Southern district where he served until Aug. 31, 1894 when he retired.
In 1886 he was at a function with Prince of Wales on behalf of Queen Victoria. He also presented a series of reports to the House regarding Agricultural taxes.
He was married to Victoria Devon and had two sons and two daughters. He died in 1912.
Children:
1.5.1 Ethel Mary Victoria Durnford 4 May 1867 Valetta Malta bap Barracca Chapel
1.5.2 Gwendolen Alice Mary Durnford 11 Aug 1869 Malta Bap Barracca Chapel
1.5.3 Arthur Cecil Somerset Dunford Mar 1875 Gillingham Kent
1.5.4 Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford Sept 1876 Farnham Surrey
1.5.1 Ethel Mary Victoria Durnford 4 May 1867 Valetta Malta bap Barracca Chapel
1.5.2 Gwendolen Alice Mary Durnford 11 Aug 1869 Malta Bap Barracca Chapel
1.5.3 Arthur Cecil Somerset Dunford Mar 1875 Gillingham Kent
1.5.4 Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford Sept 1876 Farnham Surrey
Ethel Durnford married James Edward Tabart, in 1903 in
Weybridge, St James Surrey. She died 1949
He was a Minister and at the time of his death they were living at 1 Romsey Road, Winchester. He died in 1939
They had two children Alan Cecil Tarbat born 1904 - d 1978 and
Evelyn Mary Tarbat born 1906 d 1945
He was a Minister and at the time of his death they were living at 1 Romsey Road, Winchester. He died in 1939
They had two children Alan Cecil Tarbat born 1904 - d 1978 and
Evelyn Mary Tarbat born 1906 d 1945
James was not only a Deacon, Curate and Vicar at Fareham, where he is buried, but he was an entomologist, whose papers are retained at Cambridge University. Ethel and her sister Gwen would play with the grandchildren of Queen Victoria when they were on holidays near Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Their son Alan went to Oxford and became Assistant Master at Wells. He became a writer of poems He died in 1978 and is buried at Fareham close to his parents.
His sister Evelyn and her husband Cecil
both died following the Japanese invasion of Singapore, where they had gone
to teach. They were interred at a Prisoner of War camp, Sumatra
Malaysia, (maybe Sandraken) where Evelyn frequently recited the
Michaelmas Prayer to the others. Evelyn died of beri-beri and malaria 11th
January 1945.
Her husband Captain Alfred Cecil Parr of the 1st Battalion, and Minister, Vice-Principal of St Andrews School, died at Kami, Thailand, of malaria and malnutrition on 24th June 1943. (Maybe on the Burma Railway) |
Evelyn Parr, although wounded in the arm,
managed to reach Sumatra, where she died in an internment camp at the beginning
of 1945. Her husband, the Rev. Cecil Parr, formerly senior assistant master at
St. Andrew's School, died in 1943 as a P.O.W. in Siam, where he was one of the
Chaplains with the men on the Bangkok Moulmein railway. After the Japanese
surrender I met people who had been with both of them. She had had illness
after illness at a time when conditions were very bad in the Sumatra
camps, until her strength finally gave out, while he impressed all those who
knew him by his cheerfulness and endurance.
Gwendolene Alice Mary Durnford was
born in Malta and lived in England. She did not marry and died 10th
February 1934, at St Thomas' Devonshire.
Arthur Cecil Somerset Durnford was born 1875, baptised 19 March 1875, at Gillingham in Kent.
He was in the British Army and died in 1897 at Cape Coast Castle Ghana.
Arthur Cecil Somerset Durnford.
Eldest son of Colonel Arthur George Durnford, he was born on Jan. 26, 1875 at New Brompton, Chatham. He was baptised at Gillingham Church, Kent, on Mar. 19, 1875 and educated at Hill House School, Guildford from Nov. 1885 to midsummer 1887, Sandroyd House, Cobham, Surrey till Easter, 1889 and Uppingham May 1889 until August 1891 after which he was tutored privately until he passed in to the Royal Military College in Sandhurst.
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, the West India Regiment on Mar. 25, 1896.
Arthur Cecil Somerset Durnford was born 1875, baptised 19 March 1875, at Gillingham in Kent.
He was in the British Army and died in 1897 at Cape Coast Castle Ghana.
Arthur Cecil Somerset Durnford.
Eldest son of Colonel Arthur George Durnford, he was born on Jan. 26, 1875 at New Brompton, Chatham. He was baptised at Gillingham Church, Kent, on Mar. 19, 1875 and educated at Hill House School, Guildford from Nov. 1885 to midsummer 1887, Sandroyd House, Cobham, Surrey till Easter, 1889 and Uppingham May 1889 until August 1891 after which he was tutored privately until he passed in to the Royal Military College in Sandhurst.
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, the West India Regiment on Mar. 25, 1896.
He was attached to the 17th, the
Leicestershire Regiment at Aldershot from 25th April 25 1896 to 12th September
1896. He was sent to Sierra Leone, arrived
at Cape Coast Castle May 11, 1897 and died of malarial fever, May 23, 1897.
Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford was born on May 29, 1876. In 1895 he received his commission in the Royal Engineers. From 1900 to 1905 he was Assistant Instructor of Submarine Mining and Instructor (Workshops) from 1910 to 1914 at the School of Military Engineering.
He served in WWI from 1914 to 1918 as Staff Officer to the Chief Engineer of the 1st Army in France and Commanding Royal Engineer of the 61st Division 1916 to 1919. He was awarded the D.S.O. He was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer of the Athlone, Ulster and Chatham Districts. He retired as a Colonel in 1926. He was married to Bessie Muriel Ford. They had one son and one daughter.
Guy went to Uppingham School in 1890. He was a Captain in the royal Engineers, and Assistant-Instructor School of Submarine Mining Gibraltar. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 13th August 1895
He died in at Carisbrooke Fleet, Hampshire 1951. He married Bessie Muriel Ford on 7 Feb 1901.
Bessie Muriel Ford was born on 1 Jan 1877 in Allahabad, India. Her father was Lieut. Colonel John Ford and her mother Elizabeth Fisher Knowles. She died on 19 Sep 1965 in London, Middlesex, England. She married Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford on 7 Feb 1901.
They had a daughter Elizabeth Barbara Durnford who did not marry born 1908 in Hampshire, and they had a son.
Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford was born on May 29, 1876. In 1895 he received his commission in the Royal Engineers. From 1900 to 1905 he was Assistant Instructor of Submarine Mining and Instructor (Workshops) from 1910 to 1914 at the School of Military Engineering.
He served in WWI from 1914 to 1918 as Staff Officer to the Chief Engineer of the 1st Army in France and Commanding Royal Engineer of the 61st Division 1916 to 1919. He was awarded the D.S.O. He was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer of the Athlone, Ulster and Chatham Districts. He retired as a Colonel in 1926. He was married to Bessie Muriel Ford. They had one son and one daughter.
Guy went to Uppingham School in 1890. He was a Captain in the royal Engineers, and Assistant-Instructor School of Submarine Mining Gibraltar. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 13th August 1895
He died in at Carisbrooke Fleet, Hampshire 1951. He married Bessie Muriel Ford on 7 Feb 1901.
Bessie Muriel Ford was born on 1 Jan 1877 in Allahabad, India. Her father was Lieut. Colonel John Ford and her mother Elizabeth Fisher Knowles. She died on 19 Sep 1965 in London, Middlesex, England. She married Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford on 7 Feb 1901.
They had a daughter Elizabeth Barbara Durnford who did not marry born 1908 in Hampshire, and they had a son.
[1] “Daughter,
mother, grandmother, friend, poet and pioneer woman. Wife of Capt. Charles
Gerrard King, Author of ‘Letters from Muskoka’ By an Emigrant Lady.”
Guy Edward Jervoise Durnford composed a family tree from information as known to him at the start of the 20th. century, and it was last updated by his family in the middle of that century. The tree was drawn on a roll of wallpaper about 15 feet long, which I borrowed from his son Anthony in the 1970s and got copied on an engineering plan printer as a single scroll of the same length. In 2021 I got my copy digitised in high density as a single PDF file and uploaded it to the main Durnford website. Zooming your view of the PDF is essential to make out the detail, which can be expanded clearly to a very high degree. This posting by Stephen Philip Barton Durnford, b. 20 Nov. 1943
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