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Offline JenniferDenise

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Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« on: Friday 19 August 11 03:54 BST (UK) »
My father Denis Fitzsimmons Dunbar (1903-1966) born in Calcutta, India in 1903 sent to Boarding school in Cambridge - c.1911-1920.  WW2 Australian Attestment papers say he was in the R.O.T.C. (? school cadets) in Cambridge in 1915-1918.  Want info re which school and about R.O.T.C.,  & when returned to India.  (Went to Adelaide South Australia in 1927):  ???became a teacher first in India then Australia from 1928.
India (1): Robertson, Dunbar, Sheels, Solitude, Rondeau, Fitzsimmons, Mackay, Lancaster (all 1800-1950)
Australia (1): Dunbar
India (2): Owen brothers, 11th N.I., 1st Somerset Rgt., Govt. Electric Telegraphs, Dept. public works, all c.1830-1900
England (1): Little, Wright, Mott - all in Essex
Scotland: Montgomey - Dumfries area
England (2): Owen, Biddle, Brewer, Sparrow - Lambeth, Surrey
Australia (2): Owen, Montgomery, Denyer, Norris, Little, Mott, Bose.

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Re: Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« Reply #1 on: Friday 19 August 11 04:40 BST (UK) »
I can't see him in the 1911 census.
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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell

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Re: Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« Reply #2 on: Friday 19 August 11 08:58 BST (UK) »
Thanks for answering Bedfordshire Boy........DFD (dad) probably didn't arrive UK until middle of the year....after Census.  Am I right in thinking the English school year doesn't start til about August?  Here in Oz it starts end of January!
I thought there might be some way of tracking his later involvement in R.O.T.C.  I am aware that the British Army in WW1 drew their very young officers from the public schools in WW1 & even though dad wasn't old enough at the end of the war I was hoping there would've been a record of R.O.T.C. members between 1915-1918.
India (1): Robertson, Dunbar, Sheels, Solitude, Rondeau, Fitzsimmons, Mackay, Lancaster (all 1800-1950)
Australia (1): Dunbar
India (2): Owen brothers, 11th N.I., 1st Somerset Rgt., Govt. Electric Telegraphs, Dept. public works, all c.1830-1900
England (1): Little, Wright, Mott - all in Essex
Scotland: Montgomey - Dumfries area
England (2): Owen, Biddle, Brewer, Sparrow - Lambeth, Surrey
Australia (2): Owen, Montgomery, Denyer, Norris, Little, Mott, Bose.

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Re: Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« Reply #3 on: Friday 19 August 11 10:05 BST (UK) »
The English school year starts in early September, so he probably missed the census
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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell

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Re: Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« Reply #4 on: Friday 19 August 11 10:17 BST (UK) »
There may have been others but one boarding school in Cambridge at that time was The Leys School, which still exists, so it may be worth contacting their archivist.
Andrea

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Re: Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« Reply #5 on: Friday 19 August 11 10:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Andrea
Thanks for the tip.  To date I have got nowhere chasing schools.....they all want me to enroll !!.....and I didn't get any answers to my queries.  Probably because the schools I tried didn't exist then!  That comes from researching from overseas!
Jenny
India (1): Robertson, Dunbar, Sheels, Solitude, Rondeau, Fitzsimmons, Mackay, Lancaster (all 1800-1950)
Australia (1): Dunbar
India (2): Owen brothers, 11th N.I., 1st Somerset Rgt., Govt. Electric Telegraphs, Dept. public works, all c.1830-1900
England (1): Little, Wright, Mott - all in Essex
Scotland: Montgomey - Dumfries area
England (2): Owen, Biddle, Brewer, Sparrow - Lambeth, Surrey
Australia (2): Owen, Montgomery, Denyer, Norris, Little, Mott, Bose.

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Re: Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« Reply #6 on: Friday 19 August 11 11:29 BST (UK) »
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Re: Denis Fitzsimmons in Cambridge Boarding School
« Reply #7 on: Friday 19 August 11 12:01 BST (UK) »
You could also give The Perse a try.

Not sure if they still take boarders but think they did in the past.

http://www.perse.co.uk/

Selina
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