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South Africa / Re: Herbert Best
« on: Monday 08 June 09 18:04 BST (UK) »
Hello Historycat,
I would love to see the death and marriage certificates but can't PM you yet, I believe, as this is only my second posting and I understand that I have to make 3 before I am able to PM! Is that right?
By the way, I wondered if you had spotted in the 1871 census George W Mallim at 25 Wellington Street, Bilston, Staffordshire, a boarder in the home of Henry Dewes Best who was Herbert's eldest brother and a doctor by trade. George is aged 26 and described as Henry's assistant and his birthplace is given as Grantham, Lincolnshire. I take it that he must be a relative of Mary Elizabeth Malim. Perhaps a brother of hers and Arthur Wentworth?? I wonder whether she and Herbert got him the job or whether it was the other way round and through him that Mary Elizabeth and Herbert met each other(?) I suppose we will never know. If you haven't got the census image, please do let me know and I'll send it to you, once I have your e-mail address via PM that is!
On the 1901 census at the Devonshire and Buxton Hospital I just loved the census enumerator's remark about Mary Elizabeth - "will not tell me her age". It sounds as if there might have been an altercation. Very amusing!
I haven't managed to find Mary Elizabeth in the 1891 census yet. It would be wonderful if you could let me have those details. Please do let me know if you need anything from me.
Final remark - Edward Best, Herbert's father also died in Rhyl (in 1859). I wonder whether there was a family property there - a holiday home at the seaside or something like that - or whether that was just a popular resort to visit or retire to from the Midlands in those days.
I would love to see the death and marriage certificates but can't PM you yet, I believe, as this is only my second posting and I understand that I have to make 3 before I am able to PM! Is that right?
By the way, I wondered if you had spotted in the 1871 census George W Mallim at 25 Wellington Street, Bilston, Staffordshire, a boarder in the home of Henry Dewes Best who was Herbert's eldest brother and a doctor by trade. George is aged 26 and described as Henry's assistant and his birthplace is given as Grantham, Lincolnshire. I take it that he must be a relative of Mary Elizabeth Malim. Perhaps a brother of hers and Arthur Wentworth?? I wonder whether she and Herbert got him the job or whether it was the other way round and through him that Mary Elizabeth and Herbert met each other(?) I suppose we will never know. If you haven't got the census image, please do let me know and I'll send it to you, once I have your e-mail address via PM that is!
On the 1901 census at the Devonshire and Buxton Hospital I just loved the census enumerator's remark about Mary Elizabeth - "will not tell me her age". It sounds as if there might have been an altercation. Very amusing!
I haven't managed to find Mary Elizabeth in the 1891 census yet. It would be wonderful if you could let me have those details. Please do let me know if you need anything from me.
Final remark - Edward Best, Herbert's father also died in Rhyl (in 1859). I wonder whether there was a family property there - a holiday home at the seaside or something like that - or whether that was just a popular resort to visit or retire to from the Midlands in those days.