The
Children of Arthur and Victoria Durnford
From
their early childhood, the children undertook different paths
Ethel in 1871 With Gwendoline 1880
Ethel Mary Victoria Durnford married Rev James Edward Tarbat.
James
was the descendant of William Tarbat 1753, who lived in Forfar Scotland and
died 1836, buried at Dunnichen
Church Cemetery.
Their son was Alexander Tarbat, who married
Elizabeth Hipkins in 1860.. Alexander was listed as a Yoeman of the Guard in
1881, and lived at Hammersmith. They had
a daughter Jessie and son Alan.
Elizabeth Hipkins was the daughter of Paris
Hipkins and his wife Ann Mary Shrapnell.
In 1836, Paris was elected to the board of Officers
of the Union, Western Division. He was appointed to enquire into the condition
of the poor houses, at every parish, in Wells. He later died in Galverston
Texas.
Ethel and Rev James Tarbat married in 1903 in Weybridge. He had been the Vicar at the Church, and had
two children
Alan Cecil Tarbat 1904 – 1978
Evelyn Mary Tarbat 1906 -
1945 m Capt Rev. Alan Cecil Parr
1904 – 1943
Hampshire Chronicle 20 June 1903
Fareham
The bridegroom was for some years senior
curate of Weybridge and when he left in 1900 to accept the living of Fareham
was the recipient from the parishioners of a substantial mark of their esteem
and goodwill. As Vicar of Fareham he has
firmly established himself in the affections of his parishioners, who made him
a handsome wedding present. Miss
Durnford is also well-known and generally liked in Weybridge, where she has
been an earnest and active church worker, and has made a host of friends......
Ethel enjoyed painting, and that was a family
trait.
The
death took place at 1, Romsey Road Winchester, Wednesday evening of the Rev
James Edward Tarbat, M.A. Vicar of Fareham for 28 years – fro, 1901 to
1928. Since his retirement Mr. Tarbat
had lived at Winchester. The funeral
will take place at the Fareham Cemetery tomorrow (Saturday). The reverend gentleman was 73 years of age. During his vicariate at Fareham, he took a
great interest in the various activities of the town, particularly in Price’s
School, of which he was the first Chairman of the Governors upon its
re-organisation. He was largely instrumental in the beautification of the
Parish Church, and raised a good deal of money, which was used after he had
left upon work of restoration, which was carried out in 1930.
Mr
Tarbat was a keen entomologist and had a fine collection of butterflies and
moths, which he presented a year ago to the Cambridge University. He was notable for his great activity. He left Fareham to accept the Rectory of
Calbourne, Isle of Wight, from which he returned to live at Winchester.
Mr
Tarbat was a great scholar, and could lecture on church history and the Prayer
Book without notes. He leaves a widow,
son and daughter.....
Gwendolen Durnford
Gwendolen
Alice Mary Durnford was born in 1869 in Malta.
She did not marry but served with the Red Cross during World War 1, for
a period of 4 years.
At the time she was living at Cruwyshaye Budleigh Salteston
She
died on 10th February 1934, and her sister was the beneficiary.
Arthur Cecil Somerset Durnford
Arthur
was born in 1875, while the family were living in Gillingham, in Kent
Along
with his younger brother, he pursued a career in the Military.
With his
brother, he was presented to Prince Arthur, during a Queen’s Levee at St James
Palace in March, 1896. He was a Second
Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion West India Regiment, and was
presented to the Prince by his father.
Arthur
was sent to Sierra Leone, and he died there in 1897, after contracting malaria.
Memorial to 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Cecil
Somerset Durnford, West India Regiment. Elder son of Colonel Arthur George
Durnford, Royal Engineers and Victoria Durnford (nee Devon).
Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst 1894-95. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the West India
Regiment on 25 Mar 1896. He was attached to the 17th, the Leicestershire
Regiment at Aldershot from 25 April 1896 to 12 Sep 1896. On 17 Oct 1896 he
embarked for Sierra Leone. He proceeded from Sierra Leone to Cape Coast Castle
with two companies, West India Regiment, to which he was appointed Adjutant and
Quarter-Master on 5 May 1897.
He arrived at Cape Coast Castle 11 May 1897.
Died of malarial fever at Cape Coast Castle, West Coast of Africa (Ghana), aged
22 years. [1]
He
served in the Great War, 1914 - 1918, being appointed Staff Officer to the
Chief Engineer of the First Army in France in 1916., and Commanding Royal
Engineer of the 61st Division, 1916 - 1919.
He was
twice mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the D.S.O. He was subsequently appointed Commanding
Royal Engineer of the Athlone, Ulster and Chatham Districts.
He
retired as a Colonel in 1926. Colonel
GEJ. Durnford married Bessie Muriel, youngest daughter of the late Colonel John
Ford, Royal Artillery. He had one son
and one daughter.
According
to the Harts, he also served in Gibraltar in 1904.
In 1938,
Guy and his wife visited Port Said in Egypt, and ports including Brisbane
He
married Bessie Muriel Ford in 1903. She was the daughter of Col John Ford, who
had served in India, and his wife Elizabeth Fisher Knowles.
Guy and
Bessie had two children, Elizabeth, and Anthony Guy Devon Durnford. He was a Major in the Royal Regiment of
Artillery.
There
were two Guy Durnford’s one born 1883, was a London solicitor who lived at
Brighton
Guy was
born May 1876, at Aldershot. He was the
son of William Durnford and Mary Ann Veals, from the Richard Durnford lineage
The photos are from the collection of Alan Tarbat
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