FRYAR, Kate (b. , d. ?)
Note: Went to school at St.Edmunds, Canterbury.
Note: Went to school at Winchester.
Note: Went to Philadelphia, PA, USA. In 1906, he wrote from 3101 Page Street, Philadelphia. He mentions a son aged 22 (therefore born about 1884) and a daughter aged 8 (therefore born about 1898). He says he is "now engaged in Gas Engineering".
Writing on the reverse of his photograph, by Dulcie McKennie says: "My father's youngest brother, last heard of in Philadelphia, USA, as Albert McKennie & Son, Watchmaker and Jewelers".
Death: AFT. 1906 USA
Death: 20 AUG 1905 Hastings, New Zealand
Death: JAN 1944 Hastings, New Zealand
Death: AFT. 1881 England, or Australia?
Death: BEF. 1905
Death: 8 OCT 1901 Nagpur, India
Death: 4 DEC 1918 Calcutta, India
Note: Born on the family farm, in Penpont, and lived there most of his childhood. He gives his birth date in a letter dated 27 July 1866. He enlisted in the Heavy Dragoons (2nd Dragoon Guards) in 1838/39, but left the army. Joined the HEIC as an artilleryman in 1840, and left for India in the spring of 1841, on the ship "Larkens" (900 tons). Arrived in Madras on 19 August 1841. Served in "C" Troop, Horse Artillery, and went to China in 1841/42, where he participated in the storming of Ching Kiang Fu. Returned to Madras on 15 January 1843 as acting Corporal, and promoted to full Corporal in January 1845.
On 15 February 1847 married Mary Mackenzie, then aged 19, daughter of the late Hugh Mackenzie of Glasgow.
Promoted to Sergeant in August 1847. Went to Burma on 31 August 1852, and returned to Madras on 12 August 1854. His wife and children remained in Madras during this period. Promoted to Sergeant-Major in 1854, and was Regimental Sergeant-Major and Riding Master of the Horse Brigade in 1857. His troop served with Sir Colin Campbell at Lucknow and Cawnpore in the Indian Mutiny, but David went to Secuderabad with HM 12th Lancers. He was appointed Sgt.-Major of "F" Troop, Native Horse Artillery on 13 March 1858 (commanded by Maj.Gen. Brice), and fought in the Battle of Bandah on 19 April 1858.
Appointed Warrant Officer and Adjutant of 1st Pegu Police Battalion in 1858, and returned, via Calcutta, to Madras in June 1858. The family went with him to Burma in 1858-1863. His wife Mary died there in 1860, as did his daughter Janet (1862).
He was commissioned in about 1863, and sent his daughters to the Ladies' Seminary in the Nilgiris, and his sons to Doveton College, Madras. He married a second time, on 30 March 1864, to a widow, Emily DelaHoyde (De La Hoyde?, Delahoyde?). They had six children, all of whom died in infancy. Emily had three sons and a daughter by her first marriage, all of whom were living in India in1878.
Dinwiddie, D. promoted on 28 June 1873, though recorded as Captain on 28/6/1861; Barrack Master, 1st Class, Kamptee.
Buried at St.Marks Church, Bangalore.
Death: 30 SEP 1883 Bangalore, India
Death: AFT. 1950 UK
Death: 22 MAY 1924 Chhindwara, India
Death: 7 AUG 1884 Kamthi, nr Nagpur, India
Death: ABT. 1934
Death: 1959 Ndola, Zambia
Death: BET. 1942 - 1945 Singapore
Note: According to Betty Duncan (25 November 1999) the Jasper Bell worked in a government job in the Central Provinces of India, perhaps the PWD. They retired to Kenya.
Death: ABT. 1951
Note: Was Dy.Chief Engineer of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, after 33 years service, in 1928. Retired to Hove, Sussex.
Death: AFT. 1947 UK
Death: AFT. 1946 UK
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