Matthew Massingham Seymour

Timothy married Mary Lavinia Constancia Rolt [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Registered in Huddersfield V 9a. Page 499. (FBMD)

Immigration & Travel.
14 July 1924. Arrival at Southampton, "SS Windsor Castle" from South Africa.
With parents and brothers.

John married Ann Rachel Benita Fortescue-Brickdale on 14 Jul 1951 in Westminster, London. Ann (daughter of Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale, Knt. OBE and Cicely Muriel Bankes) was born on 19 Apr 1930 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire; died on 28 June, 2022. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

Notes:

Married:
Chapel of King Henry VII, Westminister Abbey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 Jul 1865, Limpsfield, Surrey

Notes:

1911 CENSUS - Living at "The Vicarage" , Huddersfield. Occ. Vicar of Huddersfield.
1917 - 24 Dean of Cape Town, South Africa.
Visited Canada in 1924, departing Montreal on "Windsor Castle", arriving Southampton 17 July 1924.



Cecil Henry Rolt, MA (Oxon) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the first half of the 20th century.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family in 1865 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Ordained in 1888, he held curacies at St Thomas’s Sunderland, Christ Church West Hartlepool, St Hilda’s South Shields and St Cuthbert’s Bensham before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity, Darlington. He later held further incumbencies in Batley and Huddersfield before his appointment as Dean of Cape Town. He died on 14 September 1926

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rolt

Cecil married Mary Foxley Norris on 30 Aug 1910 in St John the Baptist, Calderdale, Halifax, Yorkshire. Mary (daughter of Very Rev Dr William Foxley Norris and Mary Blanche Pott) was born on 5 Apr 1886 in Medway, Kent; died on 16 May 1959 in Braintree, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 May 1885, St Mary, Catham, Kent

Notes:

Father Very Rev. William Foxley - Norris, Dean of Westminister, until 1936 & previously Dean of York.
Buried in Westminster Abbey.

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.