Victoria Hurst

[jonw65]

I can't see them returning to the UK?
Only leaving on the Durham Castle (departed 17 May 28)
Country of Intended Future Permanent Residence - S. Africa

which could explain why you can't find them here afterwards

[rosie99]

They are both on a passenger list in 1928 returning from South Africa to London (address Wrayhurst, Wray Lane, Reigate)

I must have been having a bad day, sorry    As jonw65 says they were going to SA not returning to England

Rosie

[tempogold]

  Still catching up --thanks Rosie and Jon . So they may have intended living in South Africa but he comes back and dies Reading  . But what I cant understand is why we can not find his wife Victoria's death record . Did she die South Africa or  Did she remarry?
Have ordered the wills of two of her sisters Mary Elizabeth Hurst who died 22 March 1966 Worthing and the eldest of her sisters born 1890. Also will of  Muriel Moore Hurst d 17 Dec 1982 Worthing her youngest sister born 1903. Might be easier to order his death cert .
Another family mystery--I seem to have rather a lot but keeps the brain ticking over .
Many thanks' for all the help.

[rosie99]

  Still catching up --thanks Rosie and Jon . So they may have intended living in South Africa but he comes back and dies Reading  .

The Reading death is not him - It is a George Isaac /Isaac George Lovegrove
Birth March qtr 1878 
Isaac George Lovegrove
Bradfield reg dist (Berkshire)    2c   343

also

That 1964 death in Reading of George Lovegrove, looks like it's someone else
The local indexes for Reading are online on Berkshire BMD
Deaths in 1964
George Isaac Lovegrove, age 86
and also indexed as Isaac George Lovegrove

Ditto in the GRO death index
Sep 1964, Reading 6a 107
Lovegrove, George I. (age 86)
Lovegrove, Isaac G. (age 86)

[tempogold]

That suggests then they may have stayed in South Africa . Buy where to start looking . Had not expected that .

[tempogold]

This is very Strange . Just found a tree with only them on it but no records or other information  that says George Dies 1962 South Africa and Victoria After that. Not sure what the form is Rosie--does this now need to be moved  to the South African Board ?

[tempogold]

Hello again. Progress of sorts . Have Just found an incoming record for George Lovegrove from Mombasa Kenya.
Arrives 2 Aug 1957 . Ships record says for 2 months. DOB is 8 dec 1878 which ties in on his Baptism record. Have not found him going back yet. Wish it was easier to access records from Africa.

[jonw65]

Hi
Yes, you are right he came on the Kenya Castle
It says he is Single ("Widowed or divorced to be entered as single")

Address in the United Kingdom - "Shillong" Beach Ave. Barton, Hants
From telephone directories in the fifties, an Edgar E Sharland is listed at that address (tel. New Milton 1078)
Edgar Eaton Sharland died in 1960, there is probate for him. Executors Margaret Mary Sharland, widow and Margaret Ella Sharland, spinster
Do you know who they all are?

Could George Lovegrove have flown back to Africa?
Unless there is a mistake on the passenger list, Victoria either died before August 1957 or they were divorced?

[tempogold]

Hi Jon
Had missed the single bit . Sorry no idea who these folks are . as far as I know George only had one nephew Arthur Baynard Lovegrove so don't think its direct family. None of Victoria s sisters had children so no clues there .