Daughter Rickett

John married Rosemary Ducat. Rosemary was born in 1942 in Edmonton, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Surgeon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire

Notes:

2nd son of A. J. Rickett of Wilby, Northamptonshire, by Helen Dorothy, daughter of Parr. Educated for medical profession at Guy's Hospital, Southwark.

M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. (London, 1927), late House Surgeon at Guy's. In practice (1931) at Havant, Hants., as partner in the firm of Glanville Soames and Rickett. During the Second World War was Major R.A.M.C. (surgeon). Mentioned in Despatches. In 1944 he was attached to Force 133 and was sent to the Island of Vis in the Adriatic, the only one of those islands not occupied by the Germans. He set up a hospital there (by means of barter and other unconventional methods) and treated Commandos and Yugoslav partisans. (There is an account of these adventures called the Island of Terrible Friends by Bill Strutton, pub. 1961 and re-issued by Magnum in paperback 1979).

After the war he returned to General Practice. Retired 1960.

James married Dorothy Beatrice Gordon Young on 24 Jan 1931 in St Michaels, Chester Square, Westminster, London. Dorothy (daughter of Maj. Gen. Charles Frederick Gordon Young and Agnes Hilda Gibbs) was born on 27 Nov 1903 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India; died on 13 Nov 1991 in Chichester, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Dec 1904, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Naunton, Gloucestershire

Notes:

Baptised at Meerut, India 28 December 1904.

Former Commandant Hants. 20 British Red Cross Society; Member of the Women's Institute; Member of the Parochial Church Council (Compton); Driver for Meals on wheels (W.R.V.S.). Collector for the R.N.I.B. Holidays in France, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain and California. Hobbies: painting and gardening.

2 sons and 1 daughter: John William Stanley Rickett, b. 1935, Consultant Surgeon at Torbay Hospital, m. 1968 Rosemary Ducat, 1 son, 2 daughters. Barnaby James Rickett, b. 1938, Professor and researcher in radio astronomy at The University of California, San Diego, m. Paddy Barnes and has 2 sons. Iris Philippa, b. 1933 m. John Martin Sladden and has 2 sons, 1 daughter.

Arthur married Helen Dorothea Parr. Helen was born on 28 Jan 1874; died on 23 Feb 1943 in Brookhill House, Wilby, Northants. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Jan 1860, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
• Residence: 1871, London; Census probably wrongly identifies CFGY as son of Crawford. He must have been a visitor in 1871
• Military Service: Between 1877 and 1879, South Africa
• Residence: 1912, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Military Service: Between 1914 and 1920

Notes:

His wife's 2nd cousin, he being great-nephew of her grandmother, Lady Elton (born Willis). Son of Colonel Gordon Young (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, 287, n.). Baptised 10 January 1860 at Rawal Pindi. Educated at Bradfield College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

2nd Lieut. 99th Foot Regt. May 1878; Lieut. The Wilts. Regt. (into which the 99th was transferred) Jan. 1880. Served in South Africa 1878-79 (medal & clasp in Zulu war): Joined Indian Army (6th Bengal Light Infantry) 1880; Capt. May 1889; served in China 1900 (medal); Major May 1898; Lieut.-Col. May 1904; Colonel May 1907; Major General September 1912 and commanded Jhansi, Peshawar Infantry and Rangoon Brigades. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War medal, Allies' (Victory) medal of the Great War.

Retired from Indian Army 1919. He and his wife lived from 1919 at Carringtons, Milford-on-Sea, Hants.

Birth:
Information from his baptism record. Rawalpindi was part of India at that time, I think Father George Gordon Young was Assistant Commissioner of that "place" was it Rawalpindi or Punjab?

Charles married Agnes Hilda Gibbs on 20 Sep 1892 in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, London. Agnes (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 4 Sep 1865 in Paddington, London; died on 1 Mar 1934 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Oct 1865, East Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Slough, Buckinghamshire
• Death: 23 Oct 1934, Hampshire

Notes:

Baptised 4 October 1865 at East Clevedon, Somerset.

Birth:
10 Sussex Square