263. Oscar Charles William Dickson
Oscar Charles William Dickson (1975-1950) who also became a tea planter, married Amelie Löwenhielm (1879-1949) and had five children:
476. Harriet Vera Alice Dickson
Harriet Vera Alice Dickson (1913-1965) who married Georg Gotthard Block (1913- ), but had no children
267. Dr. Wiltshire Stanton Bruce Austin
He was a medical doctor in Barbados, where he died. He married Ethel Newcombe and they had one child. After Wiltshire Stanton’s death, Ethel married his brother, Charles Ware Bruce.
Known as “Stiggs,” he married Blanche (also known as May) Damian in 1885 and they had three children. Gardiner Bruce became manager of the Standard Life Insurance Company in that island
481. Mary Estelle Bruce Austin
Known as Stella, she married Frank Martin Carrington Hobson in 1926. They had no children and later divorced. Stella subsequently married Courtenay Mallalieu (-1979), a widower with two children. It is believed that Stella is buried in St Clement’s churchyard, Trinidad.
Courtenay Mallalieu (-1979), a widower with two children.
274. Mary Isabella Austin
She married in 1880 William Campbell Harragin, a magistrate in Georgetown and they had four children: Lilian Maude ‘Lily’ Harragin, Piercy Harragin, Walter Harragin (later Sir Walter Harragin, K.C.M.G.) and Irene Mary Harragin. Lily married Claude Burton, a schoolmaster at Eastbourne College: she died in 1955, he died in 1956. Piercy married Billie and they had a daughter, Norah. Walter married Madge Hardy and they had two sons and two daughters. Irene died a spinster in 1959.
Old Malvernian and schoolmaster at Eastbourne College.
TJS knew him when he lived at Stone Cross, Sussex.
279. Edith Murray Austin
She married Thomas Newbold Bonse
r at Abingdon and they had one son, Thomas.
280. Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Murray Austin K.B.E.,C.B.
He was born in Berbice, British Guiana and was a naval cadet on H.M.S. ‘Britannia’. He had the rank of Commander during World War I and was mentioned in Despatches for service in Gallipoli. After seeing service on various ships after the war, he was appointed Rear-Admiral in Charge and Admiral Superintendent, H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar in 1932 and was awarded the C.B. (Naval) in 1933. He served in Gibraltar until 1935 and in 1936 was placed on the retired list with the rank of Vice-Admiral. On the outbreak of World War II he resumed active service, first as Commodore of various convoys, and then as Inspector of Merchant Ship Guns. He reverted to the retired list in 1946. He was knighted (K.B.E.) in 1942.
In 1916 he married Marjorie Jean Stewart Barker, daughter of Major General J. Stewart S. Barker, R.A., C.B. and they had two sons.
488. Anthony John Austin
He was in the Royal Navy but left in the 1950’s and went into business.
283. Rev. Wentworth Murray Austin M.C.
Like his brother Walter, he served with the rank of Private in the 10th Battalion, the Imperial Yeomanry and was involved in actions in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State. After his return to England, he studied at Lichfield Theological College was ordained a deacon in 1903 and a priest in 1904. He was at churches in Smethwick in 1903, Wilmslow in 1903-6, and St Peter’s, Caversham in 1906-11. He returned to South Africa where he was Assistant Chaplain in the Church Railway Mission from 1911-14. In 1915 he was commissioned with the rank of Major into the 1st Battalion the Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment. This Regiment saw action in several battles in France and Belgium, and we may suppose that Wentworth served as a Chaplain to the Regiment. He was awarded the M.C. for service during World War I. After the war, Wentworth returned again to South Africa and was Rector of Harrismith, Orange Free State from 1919. In 1922. he returned to England he became Vicar of Holy Rood, Swinton from 1922-24, and of St John the Baptist, Yarcombe from 1932-39. He lived latterly in Weston Manor, Honiton, Devon. In 1919, he married Celia Mary Aldred and they had a son.
According to relatives, he wore ‘loud’ coloured shirts, had a booming voice and told outrageous stories.
489. Lieut. Ambrose Theodore Wentworth Austin
During World War II, he was in the 12th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps. and died on D-Day, 6th June 1944, during the landings in Normandy. He is honoured at the Bayeux Memorial, Calvados, France, but has no known grave.
285. Alan Murray Austin
He was in the Royal Navy and became Paymaster on H.M.S. ‘Hawke’. According to Naval records and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, H.M.S. ‘Hawke’ was an Edgar class cruiser of 7300 tons and was launched in 1891 at Chatham. By 1914 it was used mainly for training. On 14th October 1914, while only about 60 miles from the coast of Scotland, near Peterhead, ‘Hawke’ was torpedoed by the German submarine U9 and sank within a few minutes with the loss of 348 lives including that of Alan Murray Austin. There were only 70 survivors.
Alan was married to May, from Carbis Bay, Cornwall and they had a daughter.
290. Francis Sumner Ware Austin
He was born in Melbourne. In 1891 he married Charlotte Davis and they had seven known children.
491. Richard Arthur Herbertson Austin
He was born in Footscray, Melbourne, but probably left Victoria
495. Charles Bruce Chelsea Austin
He was born in Footscray, Melbourne, and died in Fairfield, another suburb of that city
Her married name was Gibbs. She died in Melbourne, believed to be aged 50.
She was born in Fitzroy, then on the outskirts of Melbourne. She married William Stewart Anderson in 1894 and they had five children, most born in Footscray, Melbourne: Vera Gordon (1895- ), Hector Richard (1900- ), Alice Marion (1903- ), Flor Julia (1906- ) and William Stewart (1909- ).
292. Ware Austin
He was born in Coimbatore, India but emigrated to South Africa where he married Amy Jane Johnstone Stuart. They had one son. Ware died in Durban and his wife died in about 1972.
295. Wiltshire Stanton Ware Austin
He was born in Calicut, India and educated in England at Cheltenham College and Charterhouse but later emigrated to Johannesburg. Wiltshire married three times. His first wife was a divorcee, Mrs Clarke, and they had a son. In 1899, Wiltshire married Lulu Isabella Jerdan, née Bartlett, in Krugersdorp, South Africa and they had four children. Lulu Isabella died in 1933 and is buried in Mombasa. Wiltshire fought in the Boer War in the British Cavalry and was at Mafeking, where he was wounded. He kept a diary during the Boer War and the following are extracts from it.
Monday 23rd October 1899
2:00 am. No. 3 troop (my troop) were turned out to escort the 27 pounders out to shell the Dutch in their position at the mouth of the springs. Shortly after daybreak we began and kept up the music for about three or four hours. Finally our fire proved rather too hot for them and they retired, working round to the north of Mafeking. As luck would have it I was told for the first-time to act [as] number three of our section and hold the horses. As it was bitterly cold and damp I took my overcoat off the saddle and laid down with the four horses linked together by their reins and, holding on to my reins, tried to get some sleep, but every time or one of the enemy’s shells burst near me the brutes would jump and wake me up. I dug up three pieces of one (a shrapnel) that burst in the ground quite close to me. (Note the word ‘quite’ just above - a shell whizzed over and made me jump and spoilt my otherwise neat calligraphy). None of our fellows were killed and so far as I know, only one wounded and one horse killed. We stayed there till about 4:00 pm and then a galloper came up with orders that we were all to return to camp. All of the others rode off leaving my section to stay behind for half an hour to cover their retreat if necessary. About 5:00 pm the Dutch began shelling Mafeking from the North - but only fired a few shells before sundown. Had a decent sleep under a shade for a wonder.
Saturday 28 October 1899
…I’d give a week’s pay to be able to send a shilling wire [telegram] down to Lulu. She must be worrying.…
From 1912 to 1913 Wiltshire was an estate agent in Johannesburg. He then fought in World War I. He left his wife Lulu and their four children and went to Canada where he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Lulu bravely worked her way up to Kenya as a midwife, taking her four children with her. After learning that Lulu had gone to Kenya, Wiltshire Stanton returned to South Africa where he married Doris ( -1940) and became a ‘Frontiersman’ (the Frontiersmen were part of the military intake which formed the 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers who, with the second Rhodesian Regiment, fought under Smuts for Britain in Tanganyika during World War I). He always carried a pistol, with a hair trigger mechanism. Later in his life he returned to live in Johannesburg. One evening, bending down to see what was in the oven for dinner, his pistol went off, killing him.
504. Walter Austin
He served as a private and was a machine gunner with General Smuts in Tanganyika during World War I and died there of malaria. He was buried in Arusha, Tanganyika, but in 1977 his remains were transferred to the British Military Cemetery, Dar-es-Salaam.
Nee Bartlett
507. Sumner Greenaway Ware Austin
He was born in La Rochelle, Johannesburg and educated in that city. He married Florence Ellen Barratt in Nairobi in 1930, but they had no children. He worked for East African Railways as an accountant and later for the Harbours and Stores Department of the Kenyan government. He died in Mombasa.