Andrew Vanderwerff

Jan married Anne Rosalind Cassidy. Anne (daughter of Mark Startin Cassidy and Mary Blanche Medley) was born in 1920 in England; died in 2006 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st son of Charles S. Cassidy, Royal Navy Reservist of the Union Castle Steamship Line, by Catherine Startin. Educated at Christ's Hospital, Sussex.

In the Great War; 2nd Lieut. Highland Light Infantry August 1914; Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; Captain 12 December 1915 3rd Batallion (reserve) and sometime Adjutant. Served in France with 1st Gordon Highlanders and in Mesopotamia with Highland Light Infantry. He held the 1914-15 Star, British War medal, and Allies (Victory) medal.

He was employed in the firm of Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee and Co. of Manchester and living in Vienna.

He married secondly, in June 1931 in Vienna, Jean, younger daughter of Wilding of Bottesford, nr.
Nottingham.

Mark married Mary Blanche Medley on 1 Jun 1918 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. Mary (daughter of Dudley Julius Medley and Isabel Alice Gibbs) was born on 13 Nov 1896 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 16 Oct 1925 in Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 14; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

2nd daughter. Baptised 10 December1896 at St. Giles, Oxford.

In the Great War worked at Munitions in the firm of Barr and Stroud, Glasgow.

Two daughters: Anne Rosalind m. Jan Vanderwerff and has issue; Fiona Mary m. Michael Evans and has issue.

Buried at Rathfarnham.

Birth:
7 Crick Road

Died:
Grange House

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Occupation: Professor of History, University of Glasgow
• Baptism: 10 May 1861, St James, Dorset
• Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
• Arrival: 15 Aug 1929, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire
• Probate Date: 12 Nov 1953, London

Notes:

2nd son of Leiutenant General Julius George Medley (1829-1884) (Royal Engineers), by Adelaide (1841-1923), daughter of Colonel James Steele, C.B. Baptised at a church in the parish of Paddington 10 May 1861. Educated at Wellington College 1875-80; matric at Oxford (Keble College) October 1880; 1st Class Modern History and BA 1883; MA 1887; Hon. LL.D Glasgow University 1931. Cremated at Oxford.

At Wellington was Head of School and Queen's Medallist. History lecturer and tutor of Keble College, Oxford, 1884-99. Professor of History at Glasgow 1899-1931. Sometime Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Glasgow University, a Member of Glasgow School Board, an examiner for the Scottish Education Department, for the Oxford and Cambridge University Examination Board, and for the Civil Service Commissioners. Sometime Honours History Examiner for Oxford, Cambridge, Belfast, Birmingham and Sheffield Universities, now (1932) for Glasgow, Sheffield, and Durham. Member representing Glasgow University in Glasgow Territorial Army and Air Force Association 1908-31. Chairman of the Military Education Committee (Officers' Training Corps) 1909-31. Chairman of Central Organisation Military Education Committee (Senior Divisional O.T.C.) 1923- 31. In the Great War one of the Young Men's Christian Association's lecturers to the Army in France, and (1918-19) sub Director at Trouville, later at Havre, under the Army Scheme of Education: awarded British War medal. Author of A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History published 1894 (6th edition 1925) and other works (see Who's Who 1930). He and his wife lived at Oxford 1890-1900: at Glasgow 1900-31 (45 Lilybank Gardens from 1919). Vacation houses: The Manor House, Mears Ashby, Northants 1908-15; and successively 1915-28 at Bradfield, Greenham, and Highclere, all in Berks, and, from 1928-34, at Hill House, Heckfield, Hants, to which he retired on resigning his Professorship. Thereafter, lived at Ashby, Tydesham, Newbury, until his death.

Two portraits, both by James Gunn, R.A., the one at Glasgow University, the other now in the possession of his grandson George Medley.

Birth:
13 Eastbourne Terrace

Died:
Age at Death: 92

Dudley married Isabel Alice Gibbs. Isabel (daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright) was born on 27 Dec 1862 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 17 Apr 1942 in Newbury, Berkshire; was buried in Speen, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Quebec, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
• Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

2nd daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 29 January 1863 at Wraxall. Buried at Speen. Memorial Inscription there.