Is this an alias or bigamy? SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!
Robert George BENNETT c1820 Perth, is found in 1871 St George Southwark & 1881 Hanwell as a Retired Infantry Colonel on half pay.
No civil BMD has yet been found and he is not in the Army Lists. Family myth has financial collapse and/or suicide as reason for lack of accurate information.
Seven children took his Bennett name and most had a Catholic Baptism [Two Godfathers were an Edgar BENNETT and George ELLIOT].
By 1891 [possibly by 1886] the 'father' was absent. The Mother Mary/Margaret nee HENRY c1838 Sligo, is listed as Widow and the family now used the Surname
ANSTRUTHER.
The name ANSTRUTHER is found as middle name on several bapstism records.
Only three civil birth registations have so far been found [all as Bennett].
George Elliot Carnegie BENNETT 1870 Saint Saviour
Mary Georgina Anstruther BENNETT 1879 Brentford
Dominick Compton Anstruther BENNETT 1881 Brentford.
Other siblings [birthdates from baptism or Army records]
Edgar 05/10/1866 Liverpool
Frederick Anstruther 16/05/1872 baptised Southwark Cathedral
Gilbert Anstruther 08/11/1874-09/05/1892 bap. Southwark
Melgund Robert Elliot 04/06/1876. baptised Hanwell
[This last rare forename is also found in the ELLIOT-MINTO family]
At the 1882 baptism of Dominick Compton BENNETT he is recorded as ANSTRUTHER the parents are named as Robert STEWART and Mary ANSTRUTHER!
Many thanks.
Mark Elliot Anstruther Heal
Surnames:- ELLIOT MINTO MELGUND ANSTRUTHER CARNEGIE COMPTON BENNETT HENRY STEWART
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