Pyper

[Swyand]

Oops Gilmour Neill was Bessie and John Pyper’s Brother in law, not nephew!

[Kiltaglassan]

Bessie McHinch Piper with her husband........

Bessie's second forename comes from her mother's surname.

Marriage of Alexander Patton to Ellen McHinch in 1867.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1867/11482/8220404.pdf
Her father William is also a Presbyterian minister.

Ellen's death in 1921.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1921/05107/4403680.pdf

KG

[Kiltaglassan]

Death of Ellen's mother Maria, the widow of William a Presbyterian minister in 1896.    #494
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1896/05909/4677287.pdf
The informant was A L Ireland (son-in-law).

KG

[aghadowey]

I am hoping to find some living descendants of Bessie and John Pyper to  ask some questions. I know they had a son called John Graham Pyper a surgeon, who retired in Framlingham, Suffolk and died in 1987.

This isn't a forum for tracing living people but with the information below you might be able to continue searching for living descendants.

John Pyper was, for many years, principal of Bangor Technical School and there are hundreds of newspaper articles mentioning him in connection with the school as well as a few more personal nits I was able to find.

North Down Herald and County Down Independent (Bangor), 18 July 1936: For thirty years headmaster of Bangor Technical School, and Librarian, Mr. John Pyper, M.A., retires in September next. Daring those thirty years of work devoted to the mental welfare of the youth of the district, Mr. Pyper has ...
Same paper, 5 May 1928 ...Town Clerk said he had a communication to make that he felt sure all present would hear with regret and that was that Mr. John Pyper, M.A., the Principal of the Technical School, was laid up ill and the schools were closed.

Northern Whig (Belfast), 31 July 1947: Death of Mr. John Pyper, M.A. Mr. John Pyper, M.A., one of the known teachers in Northern Ireland and classical scholar of distinction, died ...
Belfast Newsletter, 31 July 1947: PYPER, M.A. The death John Pyper, M.A., Windsor Avenue. Bangor, took place suddenly yesterday at his residence. A native of Belfast, he taught for several years in a school in Holywood, and in 1907 was appointed principal of Bangor Technical School...
Northern Whig, 31 July 1947: PYPER—July 30, 1947 (suddenly), at his residence, 13, Windsor Avenue, Bangor, John, dearly loved husband of Bessie Pyper. House and funeral private. No flowers, by request.

Pyper John of 13 Windsor Avenue Bangor county Down retired teacher died 30 July 1947 Probate Belfast 2 December to Elizabeth McHinch Pyper the widow. Effects £1085 18s. 11d.

Bessie's Will Extract gives details of their 3 sons-
Pyper, Elizabeth McHinch otherwise Bessie of 13 Windsor Avenue Bangor county Down widow died 6 March 1962 at Lurgan and Portadown Hospital Lurgan county Armagh Probate Belfast 8 June to John Grahame Pyper consultant surgeon Robert Alexander Pyper consultant physician and James Bothwell Pyper consultant orthopaedic surgeon. Effects £4841 15s. 10d.

See next 2 posts for details of the 3 sons

[aghadowey]

John Grahame Pyper (26 June 1912-15 May 1987), consultant surgeon.
John Graham Pyper, the eldest of three sons of John Pyper MA, a schoolmaster, and of Bessie Pyper (nιe Patton), was born at Bangor, County Down, on 26 June 1912. His second brother became a consultant physician and the youngest an orthopaedic surgeon. After education at Bangor Grammar School, where he was an exhibitioner, and at Queen's University, Belfast, he graduated in 1935. At university he had a distinguished sporting record, receiving a blue for swimming and a half blue for athletics, and winning gold medals for diving in several university championships. He also represented the British universities at the world student games in Turin in 1933. After resident appointments at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where he obtained a gold medal for his MD in 1938, he was a demonstrator in physiology at Queen's, before working at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. From November 1939 to December 1945 he served in the RAMC as a general duty officer, and as a blood transfusion officer in Malta where he was mentioned in despatches in 1942. He was then a graded surgeon in the Middle East Forces before demobilisation with the rank of Captain. He returned to the Royal Victoria Hospital as a surgical registrar and worked with Robert McConnell, James Loughridge and Sir Ian Fraser, but he also recorded his indebtedness to Russell Howard of the London Hospital.
After appointment as consultant surgeon to the old City and County Hospital, and at Waterside Hospital in Londonderry, he carried an enormous workload of general and traumatic surgery almost unaided. He served as honorary secretary to the planning committee for Altnagelvin Hospital which was the first completely new hospital to be built in the UK after the war. Despite several major heart attacks he continued to work there as senior surgeon until 1973 and was later appointed as a life governor. He was also a founder member and chairman of the Londonderry Swimming Club; president of Rotary 1970-71; a trustee of Magee University until 1973, and chairman of the building committee and a member of the court of the New University of Ulster until 1973. In 1956 he had been appointed honorary surgeon to the Royal Navy in Northern Ireland, and as a magistrate in 1971. He was remarkable for his unstinting service, his skill, and the enormous amount of time which he devoted to care of the sick.
He retired from the National Health Service, mainly on health grounds, in 1973, to become senior medical officer and surgeon to Ascension Island, serving there until 1977 when he retired to Framlingham in Suffolk. In later years he included photography and hill walking amongst his hobbies. During the war he met and married Patricia Brightman when she was serving in the Transport Corps, and they had three sons and a daughter. When he died on 15 May 1987 he was survived by his wife, children and seven grandchildren.

[aghadowey]

Robert Alexander Pyper (25 July 1916 Bangor-8 Sept.1963 Lurgan), consultant physician, m. Nessie Campbell
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1916/01339/1552805.pdf
“Portadown Hospital, Co. Armagh, died suddenly on. September 8, aged 47. Robert Alexander Pyper was born at Bangor on July 25,. 1916, and was educated at ...” https://www.bmj.com/content/2/5361/873 (obituary in journal but preview doesn’t show his entry)
Pyper, Robert Alexander of The Lodge Waringstown county Down and Cooldreena Taghnevan Lurgan county Armagh consultant physician died 8 September 1963 at latter place Probate Belfast 14 February to Nessie Campbell Pyper the widow and William Craig solicitor. Effects £18909 16s.

James Bothwell Pyper (1924-2010), consultant orthopaedic surgeon
“James Bothwell Pyper was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Northern Ireland. He qualified in Belfast in 1946 and gained his FRCS in 1951. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter and a senior registrar in orthopaedic surgery for the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority. He died on 23 March 2010.”

[Kiltaglassan]

I know they had a son called John Graham Pyper a surgeon, who retired in Framlingham, Suffolk and died in 1987.

Abstract of will
PYPER, John Graham of New Bungalow Love La Framlingham Suffolk died 15 May 1987 Probate Ipswich 6 October £229966   8751510047G

You can obtain a copy of the will for £1.50 from:
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

KG

[Kiltaglassan]

Again, another copy of a will you can purchase.

Abstract
PYPER, Patricia of The Bungalow Love La Framlingham Suffolk died 19 July 1988 Probate Ipswich 24 October £508348    8851510900V

KG