Lalage Eleanor Ann

Lalage married Derek Arthur Mascarenhas Prabhu [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maya Antonia Mascarenhas Prabhu
2. Arati Nicola Mascarenhas Prabhu
3. Lavanya Josephine Mascarenhas Prabhu

Notes:

Educated at Shrewsbury Public School.

Served in Malta with the 68th Regiment Heavy Artillary, from Oct 1940 to Oct/Nov 1945.

John married Eleanor Frances Mary Fortescue-Brickdale on 18 May 1945 in Sliema, Malta. Eleanor (daughter of Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale, Knt. OBE and Cicely Muriel Bankes) was born on 21 May 1923 in Vacoas, Mauritius; died on 11 Apr 1988 in Derby, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Educated at St Mary's School, Calne, Wiltshire.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Baptism: 20 Dec 1890, All Saints with St Margaret, Upper Norwood, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 20; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 29 Jun 1940, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 49

Notes:

1891 CENSUS - Living with parents @@ 12 Gatestone Road, Upper Norwood, Croydon.
1901 CENSUS - @@ private school, "Parkside", Kingston Rd. Ewell, Surrey.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington, London. with parents Sir Charles and Mabel and Laura and Edmund.
Died at 2 Gonville House, Manor Fields, London SW15 on 22 Oct 1969.

Probate read, 30 April 1970 London. Left £21714.

Immigration & Travel.
20 June 1919 - Listed as a passenger on "Cap Polonio", sailing from Plymouth to Mauritius.
29 June 1940 - Listed as a passenger on the "Athlone Castle" sailing from Durban, S. Africa to Southampton.

Birth:
12 Gatestone Road

Matthew married Cicely Muriel Bankes on 21 May 1921 in Vacoas, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius. Cicely (daughter of Jerome Nugent Bankes and Muriel Frances Wingfield-Digby) was born on 9 Oct 1890 in Westminster, London; died on 14 Apr 1983 in Sutton Veney, Warminster, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 6/12; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Charminster, Dorset; Age: 20; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Great Niece
• Baptism: 8 Nov 1980, Pimlico, London

Notes:

Daughter of Jerome Nugent Bankes, banker (for whose lineage see 'Bankes of Corfe Castle' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' 1846 and 1925 editions), by Muriel Frances, daughter of Richard Henry Wingfield-Digby. Baptised 8 November 1890 at St. Saviour's, Pimlico.

In the Great War she was employed in decoding, first by the Canadian and American Dept. of the Ministry of Munitions; next by the "Women's Royal Naval Service", at first at Holyhead Station, afterwards at Admiralty Headquarters. After the War and till marriage employed in the Admiralty Hydrographic Dept.


Baptised 8 November 1890 at St. Saviour's, Pimlico.
In the Great War she was employed in decoding, first by the Canadian and American Dept. of the Ministry of Munitions; next by the "Women's Royal Naval Service", first at Holyhead Station, afterwards at Admiralty Headquarters. After the War and untill married employed in the Admiralty Hydrographic Dept.

1891 CENSUS - Living with parents at 85 Belgrave Rd. London.
1901 CENSUS - Aged 10, Visiting at Newlands House, Mr Charles T. Palmer and Frances.
Also, Beatrix Digby, aged 32, step daughter.
1911 CENSUS - Aged 20, Visiting at Wolfeton House, Dorchester, Dorset, Mr Wynne Albert Bankes.

Immigration & Tavel.
18 Feb 1921 - Dep. Southampton for Natal, S. Africa. (probably going to Mauritius to get married.)
24 May 1928 - Arr. London from Mauritius, aboard SS Gascon. With children, Antony 5, Eleanor 4, & Barbara 2.
29 June 1940 - Listed as a passenger on the "Athlone Castle" sailing from Durban, S.Africa to Southampton.
Buried at Pine Lawns Cemetery, Warminster, Wiltshire.

Probate read, 17 Nov 1983 in London. Left £4893.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 54; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale, Conveyancing Counsel to the Court of Chancery of Lincoln's Inn, and of Newland (for pedigrees see Note), by Sarah Anna, daughter of Edward John Lloyd, QC, judge of the Bristol County Court. Baptised 12 April 1857 at St. Leonards-on-Sea. Educated at Westminster school (in College) 1870-5; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 20 May 1875, 2nd class Classics and BA 1879.

Barrister (Lincoln's Inn), called 1883. Advocated Registration of Title of Land, 1886; Assisting barrister, Land Registry, 1888; Asstistant Registrar, 1894; Chief Registrar, 1900-23. Carried out, under successive Lord Chancellors, the effective first establishment of compulsory registration of title in the County of London. See fully in his evidence before Royal Commission of 1908-10 on the Land Transfer Acts. On Departmental committee on Ordnance Survey, 1893. Reported to Government on Registration of Title in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1896. On Royal Commission on Registration of Title in Scotland, 1907. Chairman of Departmental committee on Stewards' Fees, 1925. Retired from public service, 1923. Author of several works on Land Titles, Transfer and Registry (for a list of these and for other information see Who's Who of 1930 and earlier). Editor of Sir Henry Hallam Parr's Recollections (1917). Justice of the Peace co. Glos., from 1923. A Verderer of the Forest of Dean from 1929. Sometime Member of the Reform Club, London.

For pedigrees see Brickdale of Birchamp House, co. Glos., and Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh, Devon, in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', 1848; Burke's Royal Descents 1848; and Lord Clermont's History of Fortescue Family 1869.

Two oil portraits of Sir Charles by his sister Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (one at the Land Registry, one in possession of the family); another by Ralph Peacock in possessionof Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.

He was knighted in 1911



1861 CENSUS - Living @@ 18 Endsleigh St. St Pancras. London, with parents, aged 4. Also sister Kate.
1871 CENSUS - At school, 1 Little Deans Yard, St. Margarets, Westminister. Aged 14.
1881 CENSUS - Living at Birchamp Villa, Norwood, Croydon, with family, aged 24, occ. Student of Law.
1891 CENSUS - Living in (12 Gatestone ??), Upper Norwood. Aged 34, occ. Barrister.
1901 CENSUS - Living in 40 Clanricarde Gdns. Kensington, London. Aged 44, occ. Barrister,
Registrar of Land Registry.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 54, occ. Barrister, Registrar of Land Registry. Family listed,wife Mabel, aged 46; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at Gorse Corner, Townsend Drive, St.Albans, Herts. on 29 Sept 1944.

Probate read on 29 January 1945 at Llandudno to Matthew F-B OBE company director.
Effects £3909 9s 1d.
{ Watercolour painting, entitled "From the Meadow Building, Christchurch, Oxford. 1876" by C.F.Brickdale. } #
# At 10 Shady Grove, Hilton,Derby.

Charles married Lady Mabel Beatrice Gibbs on 5 Sep 1888 in Bramley, Surrey. Mabel (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 27 Sep 1864 in Paddington, London; died on 11 Mar 1944 in 10 Sheen Gate Gardens, East Sheen, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Paddington, London; St John's
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 6; Relationship: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Photo of Mabel at Cevedon Court with the Elton family, see marriage scrapbook of Sir Edmund Harry Elton.
Photo of Mabel with Sir Charles & Laura with Gibbs family, see marriage scrapbook of George Louis M. Gibbs.

1891 CENSUS - Aged 26. Living with Charles, and children Laura, aged 1, and Matthew aged 1 month.
1901 CENSUS - Aged 36. Living with husband and family.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 46. Family listed, husband Charles, aged 54; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at 10 Sheen Gate-gardens, East Sheen, Surrey on 11 March 1944.

Probate read 24 August 1944 at Llandudno "the said Sir Charles F-B knight and Matthew F-B OBE company director . Effects £2668 8s 4d."

Birth:
14 Devonshire Terrace

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 25; Relation to Head of House: Head

Jerome married Muriel Frances Wingfield-Digby. Muriel (daughter of Richard Henry Wingfield-Digby) was born about 1866 in Weymouth, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 25; Relation to Head of House: Wife