561. Adele Marie Francoise Farrar
Born in British Guiana. She first married William Wallace Cathcart Dunlop (1877-1938), Professor of Classics at Codrington College, Barbados, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Wallace Daveton Dunlop. They were married at St. John’s Church, Barbados, in 1910. Tragically, Professor Dunlop was drowned while swimming at ‘Cattlewash’ on the Bathsheba coast. Adele married, secondly, Canon John Cecil Wippell (-1976) in 1940. Canon Wippell was Principal of Codrington College and was a member of the Board of Governors of The Lodge School and Codrington High School. There were no children from this second marriage. By William Dunlop, Adele had six children all of whom were born in St. John Parish, Barbados.
774. Andrew Peter Cathcart Dunlop
Was educated at the Lodge School, Barbados. Peter was in Barbados at the outbreak of World War II and in 1940 volunteered for active service. He was part of the second contingent, recruited by a prominent citizen of Barbados named Harold Wright (who himself was a veteran of World War I), who launched a fund bearing his name, for the recruitment of volunteers to serve overseas. Andrew became a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was killed in an aeroplane crash in 1942. Peter is remembered with honour at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England.
562. 2Lt. Thomas Inniss Farrar M.C.
Was born in British Guiana. In 1924, he married Lady Sidney Mercer-Henderson (1900-1987), daughter of the Earl and Countess of Buckinghamshire. During World War I, Thomas served with the 5th Battalion Royal Devonshire Regiment, and the 6th Reserve Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, achieving the rank of Captain. In 1917, he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. Thomas’ citation reads: ‘2nd Lt. Thomas Inniss Farrar, Devon. R. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Although wounded in two places, he remained on duty and took his guns up to the captured trench, where he behaved with the utmost gallantry, although he was again wounded in the hand’. After the war, Thomas and Lady Sidney went to Kenya where they owned a farm about seventy miles north of Nairobi. Thomas, in failing health, died from the effects of gas poisoning sustained during the war. His wife remained in Kenya with her son Thomas Ewan Farrar (1927- ) where she continued to farm and take an active part in local politics, being elected to the Legislative Council in 1938. Known as a kindly but firm employer who stood no nonsense, she was an active and indomitable champion of settler values, showing no fear of the Mau-Mau terror campaign when she was known to be on a list of intended victims. Ewan lives in Zimbabwe.
Phyllis was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, where she spent her early childhood. At the age of eleven, she and her mother joined her father in Nyasaland. In 1911, Phyllis was sent to school in England. After her father retired, the family emigrated to Canada where Phyllis trained as a nurse in Montreal. There she met Norman Rothwell (1897-1958), and they were married in Toronto in 1925. In 1928, the family, which by then included their first child, Desmond, settled in England.
The name Rothwell can be traced in the North of England to Anglo Saxon times and appears in the 11th and 12th centuries in various forms. During World War I, Norman served initially with the 105th Saskatoon Fusiliers and later with The Royal Winnipeg Rifles in which he was commissioned. Norman saw continuous action throughout the war, including the Second and Third Battles of Ypres (1915 and 1916) and Passchendaele (1917). He was seriously wounded several times and gassed once. In 1918, after recovering from his wounds, Norman joined the Royal Flying Corps and trained as a pilot. After the war, Phyllis and Norman took up fruit farming and market gardening in Essex, and in 1946 retired to Drumnahoe in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
566. Cecil Willam Farrar Laurie
Cecil was born at Lemon Arbour Sugar Estate, Barbados. He was educated at The Lodge School, Barbados, where he won the Barbados Scholarship and went to St. John’s College, Oxford. There he graduated with an M.A. in mathematics. Farrar married Esther Elizabeth Smith (1904-), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Wootton, Oxfordshire. He taught at Harrison College in Barbados and later in England at City of London School, Wellingborough Grammar School and Sandbach School, Cheshire, where he was head of the mathematics department. For the last few years of his life, Farrar farmed near Byfield in Northamptonshire. Farrar and Esther had seven children. All of these children, except Sheila, married and his grand children numbered thirteen.
567. Joyce Laurie
Joyce was born in Barbados and married Colonel James Raymond Edmond Emtage (1900-1974), Indian Army, and they had two children. Both of these children are married
572. Beryl Austin Quick
Was born in Skeldon, Berbice, British Guiana. She married Dr. Adriaan Verhagen (1892-1960) of Groningen, Netherlands. Adriaan was born in Amsterdam, where he studied medicine. After qualifying as a doctor, he joined the Royal Dutch India Army (K.N.I.L.) and was posted to Suriname as a medical officer, where he met his future wife. Shortly after Beryl and Adriaan were married, they returned to Amsterdam where their first child was born. Adriaan continued his career in the Dutch East Indies as a medical officer with the K.N.I.L., serving in Indonesia (the islands of Sumatra and Java) and the island of Celebes (now Sulawesi), where, in 1930, he ended his army career. Beryl and Adriaan returned to Holland, and he became a senior government medical officer dealing with industrial injuries. During the war, Adriaan was transferred to Groningen where he died. Beryl died in Zuidhorn, Holland. They had six children
792. Erik George Verhagen
Erik was born in Hengelo, Holland, on April 3rd, 1935. He did not marry
575. Noel Farrar B.E.M.
Noel was born at the Phillips’ family home in Strathclyde, St. Michael Parish. He was married in 1933 by his father at Christ Church, Christ Church Parish, to Dorothy Evelyn Kirton (1907-2000), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richard Kirton. The Kirtons are an old Barbadian family who were known to be living there in 1730, but very likely earlier. Evelyn’s father was a planter who owned and/or managed several sugar plantations, including: Adam’s Castle, Ealing Grove, Goodland and Sayes Court, all in Christ Church Parish, and Henly, in St. John Parish. Soon after they were married, Noel and Evelyn went to British Guiana where he was for many years Shipping Manager for Sproston’s, a Canadian owned company. In 1942, Noel was appointed honorary Consul for Norway and was later awarded the B.E.M. in 1946 for services to British Guiana. Noel and Evelyn emigrated to Canada in 1953, living in Montreal, where Noel worked for the same company until he retired. Noel and Evelyn then moved to Ajax to be with their children and grandchildren. They had three children
576. Leila Everald Agnes Farrar
Everald was born in Georgetown. At quite a young age, she and her brother Fred were sent to school in Montreal. Everald returned to British Guiana where she married Arthur Barron (1899-1983) in 1931 at Christ Church, Georgetown. During World War I, Arthur served in the Royal Naval Air Service, into which he was commissioned and became a fighter pilot. Arthur later transferred to the newly formed Royal Flying Corp. and served in Egypt. After the war, he joined Barclays Bank D.C.O. and went to British Guiana. Arthur’s career in the bank took Everald and himself to Grenada and St. Vincent. After returning to British Guiana, the family went to Berbice, where Arthur was appointed Manager of the Bank’s New Amsterdam branch. Everald and Arthur retired to Newick, Sussex. Everald and Arthur had two children
Fred was born at the family home in Georgetown, next door to Christ Church, which is so closely associated with Farrar family history. Fred was a Churchwarden at Christ Church for many years, only resigning when he and his wife Dick went to England. As previously mentioned, he and Everald went to school in Montreal towards the end of World War I. Fred went to Lower Canada College and then to McGill University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. In 1932, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and became a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants as well as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Quebec. In 1932, Fred returned to British Guiana and joined Messrs. Fitzpatrick Graham & Co., and in due course became Senior Partner in Georgetown. In 1934, Fred married Mabel Eileen (‘Dick’) Austin (1908-1990), daughter of Arthur Piercy Gardiner Austin and Louisa Frances Austin, at St. Michael’s Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados. They had four children.
Fred and Dick divorced and he married Pamela Muriel Wickham (née Austin) (1914-1981).
Born in Jamaica, Dick married Cecil Frederick (‘Fred’) Farrar (1907-1982), a senior partner in Pannell, Fitzpatrick & Co., Chartered Accountants, and had four children: Frederick Arthur Bruce (b. 1935 in British Guiana, d. 1996 in Vancouver), Richard John Piercy (b. 1937 in British Guiana), Frances Leila Patricia (b. 1943 in British Guiana) and Christine Pamela Everald (b. 1945 in British Guiana).
Dick lived in Barbados and British Guiana, later moving to Sussex, England, with Fred, where she died. She was a very able athlete, and excelled at tennis. She especially enjoyed the game of cricket, and was a keen follower of the test matches between the West Indies and other countries. Dick raised her family of four, seeing her two sons depart for boarding school abroad at quite a young age, but having her daughters remain with her at home while attending Bishops' High School in Georgetown, British Guiana. The daughters moved to the U.K. to continue their education and, with the deterioration of the political situation in British Guiana, Dick and Fred moved to join them a few years later. Dick endured many separations from her immediate family, but was able to derive much pleasure from the grandchildren who lived near her and those who visited from Canada. She kept up a lively and amusing correspondence with her family and friends all her life. Her dry sense of humour and appreciation of the ‘ridiculous’ as she called it, was a strong feature of her character, carrying her through difficult times.
Dick and Fred divorced (in 1974) and Fred married Pamela Muriel Wickham (née Austin).
Dick and Fred’s son Frederick Arthur Bruce Farrar was educated at Queen’s College, British Guiana, Lodge School, Barbados, Cranleigh in England, and joined the British Merchant Marine as an officer cadet. He later returned to British Guiana where he worked for the Colonial Development Corporation in timber extraction. He returned to England and then emigrated to Canada where he worked for a well-known pharmaceutical company until his death. He married Janelle Weedon (1935-1994) from Australia, in 1968, but they had no children.
Dick and Fred’s son Richard John Piercy Farrar went to the same schools in Barbados and England as his brother Bruce. On leaving school he completed two years National Service, including a year in Korea in 1956/57 with the 1st Battalion the Royal Sussex Regiment. In 1958, Richard joined the Honourable Artillery Company, in which he served for five years and completed officer training. In 1967 Richard married Jennifer Bridget Fowler who was born in 1938 in British Guiana. In 1969, having completed two-year contract with his father’s firm in Georgetown, British Guiana, Richard and Bridget emigrated to Canada. Richard became a partner in Grant Thornton, Chartered Accountants, in Toronto and retired in 1999. Richard and Bridget have two children, Mark Christopher (1970-) and Catherine Bridget (1972-), both born in Montreal. Mark Christopher graduated from Trinity College, University of Toronto with a B.A. in History, and went on to obtain an M.A. in the same subject from University College, London. He is now a computer specialist in London with a well-known bank. Catherine Bridget graduated from the University of Guelph with a B.A. in Psychology and from McMaster University with a B.H.Sc. (O.T.) in Occupational Therapy. She is now an occupational therapist in Toronto.
Dick and Fred’s daughter Frances Leila Patricia was educated in British Guiana and England, worked in London and then emigrated to Canada in 1963, where she now lives in Westmount, Quebec. In 1965 Frances married Owen Gilsenan, who was born in Scotland in 1933. She works as a Cataloguer for the Westmount Public Library. Frances and Owen have two children, Christine Ann Caitlin (1967- ) in Pointe Claire, Quebec) and Oliver James (1970- ) in Pointe Claire, Quebec). Christine Ann Caitlin graduated from McGill University, Montreal, with a B.A. in History and Political Science and from the Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick with a LL.B. She works for an international insurance company in Montreal. In 2001, Christine married Vincent Masciotra. Oliver James graduated from Concordia University with a B.A. in History and is travelling and teaching. He is married to Lely April Tianti (1971- ) in Jakarta, Indonesia), and has one daughter, Maryam.
Dick and Fred’s daughter Christine Pamela Everald was also educated in British Guiana and England and worked in London after training as a graphic designer. She was married in 1971 to Hugh Fergus Thomson (1941-1984) who was born in Scotland. They lived in Sussex, where their two daughters were born. Hugh, who was an architect, worked in London. Following Hugh’s death, Christine continued to live in Sussex, close by her mother Dick. After teaching art and carrying out freelance artwork, she returned to college to train in office computer programmes. She now works for a medical practice in Heathfield, Sussex. Their eldest daughter, Alison Elaine (1975- ) graduated from Warwickshire Agricultural College with a H.N.D. in horse studies and management, and is now the secretary of a renowned thoroughbred stud farm in Norfolk. In 2001, Alison Elaine married Gregory Roger Allatt Brown. Sarah Louise (1978- ) is a graduate of Surrey University, Roehampton with a degree in Dance with Geography.
Pamela was born in British Guiana in 1914 and was educated in England at the Welsh Girls School in Ashford, Kent. This was followed by a year at the finishing school ‘Cyrano’ in Lausanne, Switzerland. On returning to British Guiana, she became much involved in sporting activity, representing British Guiana many times at field hockey and lawn tennis. Pamela met Dudley Lee Borrett Wickham in the period 1935-1937 while he was Clerk of the Legislative Council and, at various times in that period, also serving as ADC to two Governors. Pamela and Dudley married in 1938.
Dudley was the eldest of the two sons of Eugene Lee Wickham, and grandson of the Revd. Horace Edward Wickham. Horace Wickham, who was born in England, went out to British Guiana as a layman and later was ordained Deacon then Priest in the Anglican Church there in 1851. The ordinations were carried out at St. George's Cathedral by the Rt. Revd. William Piercy Austin. Dudley served some thirty-three years in the Colonial Civil Service, mostly in the Department of Local Government in British Guiana. He accepted the post of Federal Labour Officer for the Leeward Islands in 1943, living with his family in Antigua until 1945 when he accepted the post of District Commissioner for Berbice, British Guiana. In 1949 he was transferred to East Demerara. In 1951 he was promoted to Permanent Secretary and Commissioner of Local Government a post he held until he retired in 1960. Towards the end of his career he was honoured with an O.B.E. He died in British Guiana in July 1966 and is buried in Le Repentir cemetery.
Pamela and Dudley's only child, Martin Borrett Austin Wickham, was born in 1942 in British Guiana and was educated there at Queen’s College.
Following Dudley's death, Pamela returned to England in 1972. In that year she married for a second time, to Cecil Frederick Farrar (the divorced husband of Mabel Eileen Austin - see earlier). Pamela died in 1981 at her home in Crowhurst, Sussex.
580. Margery Lillian Farrar Conyers O.B.E.
Margery was born in British Guiana and was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, Gloucestershire. During World War II, Margery served in the W.R.N.S. and was stationed in Cairo. She was awarded the O.B.E. in 1977 for services rendered to British ex-patriates in Cyprus after the Turkish invasion. Margery married Charles Laughton Cox (-1960) who was a judge in Cyprus. They had one son
804. Charles John Cox
John was born in Famagusta, Cyprus. He was educated in England and went to Cambridge University where he earned a degree in civil engineering. He joined the U.K. Overseas Development Administration and was posted to Nigeria where he became chief engineer in charge of roads, water and airfields infrastructure there. After nine year’s service in Nigeria, John joined the headquarters staff of the Overseas Development Administration where he worked until he retired.
581. James Harold Conyers
Harold was born in British Guiana and was educated at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire, and King’s College, Cambridge. Mr Harold Conyers F.R.C.S. became Resident Assistant Surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital, London, and later a full time Consultant Surgeon to York hospitals. In 1933, Harold married Margaret Elizabeth Anna Berkeley (1907-1990) daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A.F.C. Berkeley at St. Margaret’s Church, Addington, Kent. They had three children