& died

The family are listed in the 1901 census, but no trace in the 1911 (Parents, 1st three sons, etc).

Clue might be that one son died in Kenya.  Could they have emigrated en masse (where do I find sources???)

However, Raplh himself died in Sussex in 1930 so unlikely.

Died young

 Birth

Death

 some sources link William Collier to a different wife, maiden name BOSTICK

 Twin of Eliza

1881 Census - 8 Anchor Street, St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey

1881 census shows birth in Hethersett, Norfolk, in the registration district of HENSTED.  Age might be 35 or 33 (MyH shows 33, but tail on the 5 looks similar to that on his wife's age)

Follow Up

Marriage certificate ordered - should give father's name (and Jane's)

If married in 1869, William & Jane should show up on the 1871 census

What about the 1861 and 1891 censuses too

1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.  Died of wounds in Flanders

Service number 315565

Forces record

Commonwealth Graves Commission

22/6/1877 53, Russell Street, Battersea

1881 Census - 8 Anchor Street, St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey

17/09/1904 (Alfred's wedding) - 398 Southwark Park Road

22/6/1877 53, Russell Street, Battersea

1881 Census - 8 Anchor Street, St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey

27/2/1932 (Lilian's wedding) - 380 Southwark Park Road, SE1

Alternative DoB 

Apr 7 1877

27/2/1932 (marriage) - 380 Southwark Park Road

27/2/1932 - 24 Country Road, Deptford

2nd Baronet

7th Laird of Little Tarrel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darton

Darton is in the Barnsley area, where she is listed as born in the 1861 census

(BEWARE the Lincolnshire born Mary Goodworth links)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardlaw_baronets

The Wardlaw Baronetcy, of Pitreavie in the County of Fife, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 5 March 1631 for Henry Wardlaw, Chamberlain to Anne of Denmark, consort of James VI, with remainder to heirs male whatsoever. He had acquired Pitreavie in 1606 and this was erected into a barony in 1627. As of 13 October 2008 the presumed twenty-first and the twenty-second Baronets have not successfully proven succession and are therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1983.^[1] The poet Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw was the wife of the fourth Baronet.

https://www.dover.nh.gov/government/city-operations/library/history/the-cochecho-massacre.html

Ryes-war-cemetery, Bazenville, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sheffield/SheffieldPRlocation

JOHN MICHELL in Baddindeth (Bandeath), in the Barony of Cowie and Shire of Stirling, lived in the reigns of King James V, and Queen Mary, held half the lands of Bandeith under the Earl of Mar, and died in May 1580. He married Janet Johnstone, who survived him, and she was with Alexander Young in Stirling, her son-in-law, appointed executrix under his will, dated at his dwelling place of Baddindeth 26th February 1579.

GRO Reference: 1907  M Quarter in HALIFAX  Volume 09A  Page 338

Constable in Metropolitan Police

1901 Wharncliffe Gardens are detailed here:

http://www.stjohnswoodmemories.org.uk/content/arts/architecture-architects/wharncliffe_gardens

 

Wharncliffe Gardens

Westminster Archives

 

Douglas Fairbanks and Lady Ashley

 

After the flying bomb struck

westminster Archives

 

2016

Bridget Clarke

 

2016

Bridget Clarke

 

2016

Bridget Clarke

 

2016

Bridget Clarke

 

2016

Bridget Clarke

 

2016 The Canal

Bridget Clarke

 

2016

Bridget Clarke

The original Wharncliffe Gardens  was built in the late 19th century on the site of Edwin Landseer’s house and garden, by the  Great Central Railway  – chairman, Earl of Wharncliffe – to house the workers whose homes had been demolished when the line arrived at Marylebone station.  There were 6 five-storey blocks of flats facing north/south, with the 2 eastern blocks  smaller than the others in order to leave room for the  existing School of Industry  for Female Orphans. Each flat was designed so sunlight entered at some part of the day. The frontage of  the flats were paved, with clipped hedges  and huge carriage entrances in the middle of each block for horse drawn vehicles to enter. A typical flat would have three bedrooms, a sitting room with an open fire, a kitchen and an inside lavatory, which was an innovation for “model dwellings”.  Laundry could be  hung out to dry at the top of the buildings, and  milk  and coal were delivered.  The residents were  mainly in regular work with good wages and Charles Booth said it was the only model dwelling “in London in which I conceive life as bearable.”

A famous resident in the 1920s

Sylvia Hawkes, a lingerie model, Cochran dancer and actress,  and one of the loveliest  girls in London, was the daughter of Arthur Hawkes,  a livery stable employee who lived on the estate. On 2 February 1927, she married Lord Ashley, son and heir of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, much to the horror of his parents and the excitement of the Press. A few years later, she left him, having met film star Douglas Fairbanks Snr, then married to film star Mary Pickford.  In 1934, Lord Ashley sued for divorce, citing Fairbanks. Eventually Fairbanks and Pickford divorced, and Sylvia married Fairbanks in 1936. Fairbanks died at the beginning of the Second World War and left Sylvia the bulk of his estate. In 1941, she established a charity in Los Angeles to help refugees in the war. Her marriage to Edward, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley, ended in divorce and then in 1949 she wed the film star Clark Gable.  This  marriage did not last long and finally she married Prince Dmitri Djordjadzo, and died in 1977.

Sylvia’s father, Arthur Hawkes still lived in Wharncliffe Gardens after the War, tired and sick and with a small pension; he had latterly been a porter in a block of flats and doorman at a restaurant.

The flying bomb incident 21 August 1944

33 people were killed, 38 were seriously wounded and 107 had minor injuries after the flying bomb cut out above the estate  on 21 August 1944.   It landed at 8.18 p.m.and by 8.45p.m. six heavy rescue parties, three light rescue units and ambulances had arrived. By nine o’clock, the first of 3 cranes, 12 skips and 17 tipping lorries had arrived plus listening apparatus and the last body was recovered at 8a.m. on 23 August. The WVS ran an enquiry bureau and provided facilities for workers and residents. Fifty flats were demolished and others were made uninhabitable.

 

Miss Madge Hunt, who lived on the ground floor with her mother and sister, left an account of her experiences:

My mother, sister and myself had not long had our dinner.  We were all sitting in the sitting room in the ground floor flat – at about 8 o’clock our flats had a direct hit from a flying bomb.  I ran to the side of the fireplace and my sister followed me when we heard the terrible screech of the bomb. The next thing I knew, I was pinned from my shoulders to my right arm across my chest, my left arm was free and I could just move that and was able to put it out at the side a little way.  It seemed a very long time and difficult for me to make a noise, as my mouth seemed full of debris, anyhow I made as much noise as I could and was greatly relieved when I felt somebody get hold of my hand.  He said he would come back.  After some time I could feel that the wall at the back of me was being loosened and I was able to move the top part of my body.  I was gradually dug out with the men taking turns to release me.  There was a doctor giving me attention, we were all in a very small space.  I had a drink through a tube and was given injections in my arm but was conscious all the time.  Finally I was hauled up by ropes, put in an ambulance and taken to Middlesex Hospital.

Her mother and sister were killed. Madge was in hospital until 21 December, but had to have her left foot amputated a year later and remained crippled for the rest of  her life. All the victims were buried at St Marylebone Cemetery, East Finchley, in a mass grave and a monument with all the names marks the grave. (WW2 Peoples War article A3489366)

(see also the website article Flying bomb at Wharncliffe Gardens)

Post War estate

 

All the flats had to be demolished after the War, and a new council estate was built in the late 1970s, with 4 storey blocks as a reaction to the, by then, unpopular tower blocks. There are 280 homes, 70 of which are suitable for the elderly. Those on the ground floor have their own front doors and there are small enclosures with some gardens and car parking. The estate was designed by GMW Partnership and the bricks are an unusual colour for London as there was a brick shortage nationally at the time and bricks had to be brought in from wherever was available.

http://www.devon-mitchells.co.uk/getperson.php?personID=I193&tree=StokeDamerel

From 1756 until his death he was British envoy to King Frederick II the Great of Prussia.

His estate in Scotland was Thainston House, which he had inherited from his father-in-law Thomas Mitchell.
Mitchell is somewhere described as "the noteworthy, not yet much noted, Sir Andrew Mitchell, by far the best Excellency England ever had in that Court [the court of Frederick the Great]; an Aberdeen Scotsman, creditable to his country, hardheaded, sagacious, sceptical of shows, but capable of recognising substances withal, and of standing loyal to them stubbornly if needful;"    

Life with Boswell: 
Boswell first met Mitchell when he waited for him in Berlin on July 8, 1764. He described him as a very polite "knowing, amiable, easy man". A few days later, on July 14, Boswell dined with Mitchell and they met several times over the next few months.
On July 24 they had a "most agreeable conversation" about morality, and about the poet James Thomson, whose friend Mitchell had been in London. (*Note 1)

From a letter Boswell sent to Mitchell on August 28, 1764, it is clear that Mitchell was a friend (or at least a close acquaintance) of  Boswell's father. Boswell used the letter to tell Mitchell about his wish to stay in Europe for another year, and to visit Rousseau and Voltaire, hoping that Mitchell would present the ideas favourably to Lord Auchinleck.
Notes : 
Note 1:  http://www.electricscotland.com/history/france/vol2-3c.htm
Note 2: James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish born poet of some fame. His best known works are the poetry collection The Seasons (1730), the individual poems Liberty (1736) and The Castle of Indolence (1747 or 1748), and the masque Alfred (1740), which was written in colaboration with David Mallet.
Literature:  
In 1850 was published Memoirs and Papers of Sir Andrew Mitchell which may be available via AbeBooks  
http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirspapersofs02bissuoft#page/4/mode/2up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mitchell_(diplomat)

Mitchell, Sir Andrew, knight of the bath, and a distinguished ambassador at the court of   Berlin was the only child of the rev. William Mitchell, formerly of  Aberdeen but then one of the ministers of St Giles commonly called the high church of Edinburgh. 
The time of his birth is not specified, but he is said to have been married in 1715, when very young, to a lady who died four years after in child-birth, and whose loss he felt with so much acuteness, as to be obliged to discontinue the study of the law, for which his father had designed him, and divert his grief by travelling, amusements, &c. This mode of life is said to have been the original cause of an extensive acquaintance with the principal noblemen and gentlemen in North Britain, by whom he was esteemed for sense, spirit, and intelligent conversation.
Though his progress in the sciences was but small, yet no person had a greater regard for men of learning, and he particularly cultivated the acquaintance of the clergy, and professors of the university of  Edinburgh. 
About 1736 he appears to have paid considerable attention to mathematics under the direction of the celebrated Maclaurin; and soon after began, his political career, as secretary to the marquis of Tweedale, who Wc-s appointed minister for the affuirs of  Scotland in 1741. He became also acquainted with the earl of Stair, and it was owing to his application to that nobleman that Dr. (afterwards sir  John) Pringle, was in 1742 appointed physician to the British ambassador at the  Hague 

Though the marquis of Tweedale resigned the place of secretary of state, in consequence of the rebellion in 1745, yet Mr. Mitchell still kept in favour. He had taken care, during that memorable period, to keep up a correspondence with some eminent clergymen in Scotland and from time to time communicated the intelligence he received; which assiduity was rewarded wiih a seat in the House of Commons in 1747, as representative for the burghs of   BamfF,   Elgin, Cullen, Inverurie, and Kiiitore. In 1751 he was appointed his majesty's resident at  Brussels where, continuing two years, he in 1753 came to  London was created a knight of the bath, and appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the court of  Berlin There, by his polite behaviour, and a previous acquaintance with marshal  Keith he acquired sufficient influence with his Prussian majesty to detach him from the French interest. This event involved the court of  France in the greatest losses, arising not only from vast subsidies to the courts of Vienna, St Petersburg,  and Stockholm,  but also from the loss of numerous armies. Sir Andrew generally accompanied the great Frederick through the course of his several campaigns, and when, on the memorable 12th of August  1759, the Prussian army was totally routed by count SoltikofT, the Russian general, it was with difficulty that he could be prevailed upon to quit the king's tent, even while all was in confusion.
From a very recent writer, we have some account of his mode of living and general conduct while at   Berlin which was highly honourable to his sense and spirit. When he first arrived at  Berlin he had occasioned some perplexity to those who invited him to their houses, for he played no game of chance, so that his hosts constantly said to each other, "What shall we do with this Englishman, who never plays at cards" In a short time, however, the contest was, who should leave the card -table to enjoy the conversation of  Sir Andrew Mitchell whose understanding, they discovered, was no less admirable than the virtues of his character. His bon-mots came into circulation, and were long retailed. Thiebault has recorded a few which, as he says, explain rather his principles than his understanding. On one occasion that three English mails were due, the king said to him, at the levee, "Have you not the spleen, Mr. Mitchell, when the mail is thus delayed r " " No, Sire, not when it is delayed, but often enough when it arrives duly." This alludes to his being frequently dissatisfied with his own court. During the seven years' war, in which, as we have already noticed, he constantly served immediately under Frederic, the English government had promised Frederic to send a fleet to the Baltic, for the protection of commerce, and to keep off the Swedes and Russians; but as this fleet never made its appearance, the Swedes were enabled to transport their army without interuption to Pomerania,  together with all the necessaries for its support, and the Russians conveyed provisions for their troops by sea, and laid siege to Colberg, &c. All this could not fail to give umbrage to Frederic, and he incessantly complained to sir  Andrew who found himself embarrassed what reply to make. At length the ambassador, who had before been daily invited to dine with the king, received no longer this mark of attention; the generals, meeting him about the king's hour of dinner, said to him, "It is dinner-time, M. Mitchell." "Ah gentlemen," replied he, "no fleet, no dinner" This was repeated to Frederic, and the invitations were renewed. Frederic in his fits of ill-humour was known to exercise his wit even at the expence of his allies; and the English minister at home expressed to sir  Andrew Mitchell  a wish that he would include some of these splenetic effusions in his official dispatches. Sir    Andrew however, in reply, stated the distinction between such kind of intelligence, and that which properly belonged to his office; and the application was not repeated, by which he was saved from the disgrace, for such he considered it, of descending to the littlenesses of a mere gossip and tale-bearer. We shall only add one more repartee of sir  Andrew Mitchell  because, if we mistake not, it has been repeated as the property of other wits. After the affair of Port Mahon, the king of  Prussia  said to him, "You have made a bad beginning, M. Mitchell. What! your fleet beaten, and Port Mahon taken in your first campaign The trial in which you are proceeding against your admiral Byng is a bad plaister for the malady. You have made a pitiful campaign of it; this is certain." "Sire, we hope, with God's assistance, to make a better next year." "With Gods assistance, say you, Sir I did not know you had such an ally." "We rely much upon him, though he costs us less than our other allies." 
In 1765, Sir Andrew  came over to  England for the recovery of his health, which was considerably impaired, and after spending some time at Tunbridge Wells   returned in March 1766 to Berlin where he died Jan. 28, 1771.
The court of  Prussia honoured his funeral with their presence, and the king himself, from a balcony, is said to have beheld the procession with tears. 
St.   James's  Chronicle, Feb. 1771. Tijiebault's Original Antedates of Frederic II . vol.  II . p. T7, &c



Thainstone House, Aberdeenshire
 
In 40 acres of lush meadow land, Thainstone House, a classical mansion which dates from the 18th century, was extended in 1840 by the architect Archibald Simpson and again in 1992.   An older house here was sacked by Jacobites in 1745, and it was home to James Wilson, who signed the American Declaration of Independence, and Sir Andrew Mitchell, who was ambassador to the court of Prussia in the time of Frederick the Great.   The building is alleged to be haunted by a 'Green Lady', daughter of a former owner of the house.   It is believed that she was killed in a riding accident, and sightings of her apparition describe her as wearing a green cloak.   Other manifestations include objects moving by themselves, and guests have reported that their pets will not enter one of the rooms.

http://scottishghosts.webs.com/apparitionssv.htm

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Sir Andrew Mitchell 1708 - 1771
Diplomat. Born in  Edinburgh, Mitchell was the son of a minister of St. Giles Kirk who one of the King's Chaplains in Scotland. He married young, but both his wife and their infant daughter died soon after, leaving Mitchell devastated but with substantial estates in Aberdeenshire. He left Scotland, first travelling in Europe and then studying law in England.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1736 and, in 1742, was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Scotland under John Hay, 4th Marquis of Tweeddale (1695 - 1762). He served in this role during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and Mitchell corresponded with  Duncan Forbes of Culloden  (1685 - 1747) showing sympathy for the resulting suffering of both sides.
In 1756, Mitchell was sent as Ambassador to the Court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in Berlin. He negotiated the support of Prussia against the French during the Seven Years' War and wrote of his experiences in his journals. He visited England in 1765 and was knighted by King George II, before returning to Germany the following year.
He died in Berlin and was buried there.

http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst3703.html

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http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/mitchell.htm

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http://www.caledoniansocietyofneworleans.com/main_pgs/clans/c_hist/forbes.html

  (*Note 1)<http://www.jamesboswell.info/biography/#Notes>

Occupation at some time

Reverend Kidwell, Methodist Church, Jamestown

1st Baronet

The Mitchell Baronetcy, of West Shore in Zetland, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 19 June 1724 for John Mitchell.^[1] The title was generally thought to have become extinct or dormant on the death of the third Baronet in 1783. However, in 1895 James William Mitchell was served heir male by the Scottish Sheriff of Chancery and is considered by some sources as the 9th Baronet. He was a descendant of the seventh and youngest son of the first Baronet but never assumed the title and neither did his son Hugh Sykes Mitchell. The present status of the baronetcy is uncertain.^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_baronets

• Sir John Mitchell, 1st Baronet (died 1739)
• Sir Andrew Mitchell, 2nd Baronet (c. 1706–1764)
• Sir John Mitchell, 3rd Baronet (1734–1783)
• John Charles Mitchell, presumed 4th Baronet (1709-1790)
• Edward Charles Mitchell, presumed 5th Baronet (1749-1 Oct 1818)
• John Warburton Mitchell, presumed 6th Baronet (1756-1831)
• Joseph Mitchell, presumed 7th Baronet (1762-1833)
• Joseph Theophilus Mitchell, presumed 8th Baronet (1793-1849)
• James William Mitchell, presumed 9th Baronet (1836-1898)
• Hugh Sykes Mitchell, presumed 10th Baronet (1880-1???)

1. The London Gazette. 9 June 1724. p. 1.
2.  Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "M" (part 2)

May 31 1830 - Barugh Darton, York, Eng.

Crowle is a populous community in the civil parish of Crowle and Ealand, on the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire, England. The civil parish had a population at the 2011 census of 4,828. It lies on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and has a railway station. The place has a further named neighbourhood, Windsor.

Very close to both registration districts of HATFIELD and THORNE

Apothecary, who having, it is said, cured King George I of some disease, received the offer of a baronetcy, which, however, he declined and requested that it should be given to his brother John, which was accordingly done. He died in 1753, his will being dated 13th May and proved in London, 20th July 1753

From Hull Archives 

Beverley, 1282-1859 (U DDMC/9)

2 Feb 1822  Agreement for Sale: for £30 and 5s. annual ground rent: Gillyatt Sumner, jnr. to Committee of Methodist Sunday School 120sq. yards at Beckside (fronting Potter Hill and adjoining lane to Grovehill) as site for school and chapel (U DDMC/9/149)

16 Oct 1846  Conveyance for £166. 5s.: Surviving members of Committee as DDMC/9/149 and Gillyatt Sumner to Rev. William Robinson Gilby, Rev. William Hildyard, Rev. John Burton Birtwhistle, Henry William Hutton and Robert Wylie, all of Beverley120sq. yds. and schoolhouse as DDMC/9/149 (6 U DDMC/9/209)