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Name: Theodore John Warrender Prendergast
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Military Date: 8 Mar 1904
Publication Year: 1908
Publication Place: London, England

Name: Theodore J . W. Prendergast
Military Year: 1902
Regiment: CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS
Rank: Major

Name: Theodore John Warrender Prendergast
Death Date: 10 May 1926
Death Place: Guildford, Surrey, England
Probate Date: 6 Jul 1926
Registry: London, England
Probate to widow Mabel Minnie, daughter Olive - and a solicitor

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Name: Theodore J .W. Prendergast
Age: 23
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Gender: Male
Where born: India
Civil Parish: Vessels
County/Island: Royal Navy
Country: England
Street address: "Jumna"
Education:
Employment status:
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Occupation: Lieut R E Regt
Registration district: Royal Navy
ED, institution, or vessel: Jumna (1)
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 5634
Folio: 57
Page Number: 17
Name Age
Theodore J.W. Prendergast 23

Name: Olive Emilie Dalrymple Prendergast
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1905
Marriage Date: 28 May 1931
Marriage Place: Shalford, St Mary the Virgin, Surrey, England
Father: Theodore John Warrender Prendergast
Spouse: Francis Sturges Douglas Atherton

1939 register has her date of birth as 16 December 1904

This is confirmed by her death registration in 1970, the cert for which should give her birthplace

Thanks ladies. I've chased him around the 'net but can't find his postings - and maybe his wife wasn't with him. So - if you can fins a 1905ish birth for Olive Emilie Dalrymple Prendergast I'd be grateful. Quite a prominent military family and far too posh for the likes of me!
Thanks,
B

You say you've looked at military overseas births, but have you checked non-military ones? "Military" births tended to be in places with lots of British armed forces, like India, or Singapore, where there was probably a military hospital.

We are a Naval family, and our son was born in Ghana, but he is registered as a civilian and doesn't appear in the lists of military births overseas.

The marriage cert won't show place of birth

Are they on the 1939 register

The marriage cert should show her fathers name and the witnesses could be family too

Do you want to give names so we can take a look

Hi DET,
She had some unusual forenames so I'll have a look. Found that there was a UK birth but the MMN was Smith so not the right one.
.BtW

Nope,they've never heard of her :-( :-(

Would a 1931 marriage cert show her place of birth? I've not got anything so recent so I've no idea.
B

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk For events which happened in Scotland.

You have to register then search for free. Purchase credits to view the certificate online if it’s over 100 years ago. Unfortunately for us, the index does not give the mother’s maiden name although it may have been incorporated in the child’s.

Have you searched the internet for the Colonel? There might be biography or obituary give family details.

Greetings.
A third cousin twice removed married the Colonel in Shanghai 1901. They are said to have had a daughter about 1905. She was not registered in UK nor is she to be found in FMP and another site's military overseas births. Possibility is either Scotland or Ireland if they are not considered to be overseas.
Any advice would be appreciated,
Thanks,
BtW