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Hi. I hope you are still active on this site. Elsie Keeling Andrews ( née Barber) was my grandmother. I just chatted to her daughter, my mother Dorothy Anne and sent her the link to this site.

Glad we could help!!


It was fun, as Quoy said!




sylvia

Open your e mails and you will see

Still grinning and jumping around, and gobsmacked.
Haven't been able to stop since reading this, where did you guys get all this information from?

Thank you
and you are most welcome
I enjoyed that
but I would have liked to seen your face when you woke up to this lot
lol

Thank you so much to everyone, wow.
There is so much information here, I don't know what to do, LOL.
Thank you again to everyone.
Joanne

Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900
about Charles Alfred. Barber
Name: Charles Alfred. Barber
College: CHRIST'S
Entered: Michs. 1884
Born: 10 Nov 1860
Died: 23 Feb 1933
More Information: Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Oct. 6, 1884. S. of William, Wesleyan minister. B. Nov. 10, 1860, at Wynberg, Cape Town. School, New Kingswood, Bath; afterwards at Bonn University, 1883-4. Matric. Michs. 1884; Scholar, 1885; (Nat. Sci. Trip., Pt I, 1st Class, 1887; Pt II, 1st Class, 1888); B.A. 1888; M.A. 1892; Sc.D. 1908. University Demonstrator in Botany, 1889-91. Superintendent of the Botanical Stations in the Leeward Islands, 1892-6. Lecturer in Botany at the Royal Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, 1896-8. Government Botanist, Madras Presidency, 1898-1912. Director of Botanical Survey of Southern India, 1898-1908. Head of the Agricultural College, Coimbatore, 1908. Sugar-cane expert to the Government of India, 1912-19. University Lecturer on Tropical Agriculture, 1919. C.I.E., 1918. A distinguished investigator of morphological problems. Did much exploratory botanical work while in the tropics, which has been utilised in Gamble's Flora. Published an important series of studies in parasitism of green trees in the Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, India. Awarded the Maynard Ganga Ram Prize for Indian research, 1931. Died Feb. 23, 1933, aged 72, at Cambridge. Brother of William T. A. (1876). (Peile, II. 710; The Times, Feb. 24, 1933.)


Burial
Forenames: Charles Alfred
Surname: BARBER
Residence: of 294 Cherry Hinton Rd
Day: 25
Month: Feb
Year: 1933
Age: 72
Parish: Cherry Hinton
County: Cambridgeshire,England
Grave details: N33




Cremation Register summary
last name Barber first names Edith Leather Osborn Cremation date 28 Nov 1946 Site Cambridge City Council Location Cambridge Crematorium (Cambridgeshire)

(just a few bits to go with the great help given, google brings up some good bits on Charles too. Brilliant man)

Chris :)

The Times March 3rd 1931
The engagement is announced between Dr.Geoffrey Osborn Barber M B of Dunmow Essex son of Dr C A Barber CIE and Mrs Barber of Cambridge to Daphne Drew elder daughter of Mr.and Mrs H Drew of Coldharbour Bletchingley Surrey

I'll carry the torch then goodnight

and now I'm off to bed!

it's 11:30 pm here



sylvia

Edith's parents in 1881 ..... haven't found her for sure yet

1881

Name: George R. Osborne
Age: 46
Estimated birth year: abt 1835
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Eliza Osborne
Gender: Male
Where born: Stockport, Cheshire, England

Civil Parish: Harrow
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England

Street address: Lower Road
Condition as to marriage: Married

Occupation: Wesleyan Minister Harrow Wesleyan Chapel

Registration district: Hendon
Sub-registration district: Harrow

George R. Osborne 46
Eliza Osborne 49
Eliza K. Osborne 14
Sarah Chaplin 16
Henry Hart 20



and it looks as though mother Eliza has died by 1891 . although George R does still say he's Married

1891 Census

Name: George R Osborn
Age: 56
Estimated birth year: abt 1835
Relation: Head
Gender: Male
Where born: Stockport, Cheshire, England

Civil Parish: All Saints
Ecclesiastical parish: St Faiths
Town: Wandsworth
County/Island: London
Country: England

Registration district: Wandsworth
Sub-registration district: Wandsworth

George R Osborn 56 Married, Wesleyan Minister
Edward Osborn 25 Architect
Edith L Osborn 23 Governess
Susan Peckham 22 General Domestic Servant

Address:- 11 East Hill




sylvia

???? parents of Edith


Marriages Sep 1862 (>99%)

Keeling Eliza Burnley 8e 268
Osborn George Richard Burnley 8e 268




so that is where the Keeling comes from!!




sylvia

Marriage

Marriages Sep 1893 (>99%)

Barber Charles Alfred Wandsworth 1d 1306
Osborn Edith Leather Wandsworth 1d 1306




sylvia

Edith in 1871

1871 Census

Name: Edith L Osborn
Age: 3
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Relation: Daughter
Father's name: George R Osborn
Mother's name: Eliza Osborn
Gender: Female
Where born: South Stoneham, Hampshire, England
Civil Parish: Richmond
Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity
Town: Richmond
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England
Registration district: Richmond
Sub-registration district: Richmond

George R Osborn 36 b.ca 1835, Stockport, Cheshire, Wesleyan Minister & Journalist
Eliza Osborn 39 b.ca 1832, Louth, Lincolnshire
George Osborn 7 b. Manchester, Lancashire
Edward Osborn 5 b. Liverpool, Lancashire
Eliza K Osborn 4 b. Liverpool, Lancashire
Edith L Osborn 3
Elizabeth Pearce 70 Servant

Address:- 26 Townshend Villas



sylvia

lol!!

Night Jax

It's my husbands fault he gets so warm but please do not think he is hot stuff
lol

night night jax

sleep tight



sylvia

This thread feels like home I lived in Cambridge so know Cherry Hinton and I used to work opposite John Wesleys house in City road London...going to bed now night all

jax

too warm to sleep?!!