Edward Fraser Lingham

[Dave26]

I am trying to find out any info about an ancestor, Edward Fraser Lingham. I think he was born at sea about 1837 and married Charlotte Gladstone in London in 1862. He died in 1891 in Marylebone.

At some point I think he used the surname Gladstone-Lingham.

Any info about their children, if any, would be most welcome.

Thanks,
Dave J 

[Kloumann]

This is him on Findagrave, St Denys, Colmworth

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133933912/thomas-morris-hughes

[ciderdrinker]

Hi
Here's his marriage 3 Sep 1862 St George Hannover Square
Edward Fraser Lingham full bach Esquire George st Alfred Lingham Esquire
Caroline spinster full Stoke upon Terne John Gladstone Clerk
wit John Gladstone Ma and Murry Gladstone.
Buried 1890 St Denys Churchyard Colmworth Bedford.
Described on death as a barrister of law,death 12 March 1891 at Langholm Hotel Portland Place £3432 1s 9d.
I assume you know he is at Bedford with his in laws 1881 census.

It looks like his actual Birth is registered in Australia Melbourne NSW 1836 s of Alfred and Jane Lingham. Strangely redone at Melbourne 1841.
Sister Eliza Matilda 5.1.1839 and Adelaide Emily born and died 1841.

Ciderdrinker

[Kloumann]

Good find!

No sign of any children. Probate names his wife, Charlotte & Hunter Bird Allen, whom they were living with in 1891 census, Colmworth, Beds. Charlotte died 1893.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7BDC-6ZM
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238567002/charlotte-gladstone-lingham

Edward' Baptism record

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCX-QQ2

[Neale1961]

Father of Edward Fraser LINGHAM was Alfred

Alfred LINGHAM born 28 Sept 1796, baptised 17 Sep 1797 St Paul Covent Garden, Westminster.
(Parents William LINGHAM and Agnes ASKEW - married 24 Feb 1788 Covent Garden)

Marriage 14 June 1831  at Fort William, Calcutta, Bengal
Alfred LINGHAM (Assistant to Leyburn & Co) 
Jane FRASER (age 31)

Children born in India:
•   Alfred LINGHAM born 14 Mar 1832, bapt 20 Jan 1833 Calcutta
•   William Fraser LINGHAM born 9 May 1833 Calcutta, bapt 11 Aug 1833; burial 3 Nov 1834 (father Alfred -  Assist to Jenkins Lowe & Co.)
•   Jane Agnes LINGHAM born 25 mar 1835, bapt 14 June 1835 Calcutta (father Alfred -  Assist to Jenkins Lowe & Co.)
Children births registered in Australia
•   Edward Fraser LINGHAM birth registered in 1841 (born at sea 22 Aug 1836)
•   Eliza Matilda LINGHAM birth registered in 1841 Melbourne Beach (born 1839)
•   Adelaide Emily LINGHAM birth registered in 1841 Melbourne Beach; died at 8 months in 1841.

Hobart Town Shipping News 22 Oct 1836
Oct 4 - Arrived the barque “Swallow” from Madras. Passengers … Mr and Mrs Lingham and three children. (One child must be baby Edward)

By late 1837 Alfred Lingham is recorded as having purchased a “town allotment” in Port Phillip (Melbourne) Australia.
1841 Alfred Lingham was running the “Marine Hotel” aka “Beach Inn”.
The 1841 census shows his place of residence at North Beach, Port Phillip – 12 residents.

1842 April. He is granted the publican’s licence at the “Marine Hotel”
There appear to have been some legal issues with the hotel. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226511493/22214050

March 1843 A. Lingham was involved in insolvency proceedings.

1843 shipping Intelligence
April 19  - Arrived Sydney: the brig “Flying Fish” from Port Phillip. Passengers Mr and Mrs Lingham and four children.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31739582?searchTerm=Lingham
 
1843 Departures 14 May for Madras and Calcutta - Mr and Mrs Lingham and four children.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31739845?searchTerm=Lingham

I am not sure how long the family stayed in India but it does seem to have been a while ….

•   A son George Askew LINGHAM was born 24 Jan 1849 in Calcutta, and he appears on the 1861 Scotland census in a boarding school in Duns Berwickshire.
•   Daughter Jane Agnes LINGHAM (born 1835) married in India on 16 Sept 1854 to Benjamin DICKENSON
•   Daughter Eliza Matilda Lingham (born 1839) married in Camden London in 1865 to Edward CREWS
•   The oldest son Alfred Fraser Lingham (born 1832) became first judge of small causes court Rangoon, Calcutta. 
“Matric, Lamartiniere Coll., Calcutta, a student of Lincoln's Inn 13 Jan.1866, called to the bar 17 Nov.1868 (eldest son of Alfred Lingham, of Calcutta, merchant, dec.); married 21 Nov.1867, Emily S., dau. of G. Hewitt, of Sydenham and Southwark.”

13 Aug 1855 Alfred LINGHAM died at sea. (Bombay Times 6 Sep 1855)
Register entry “On the 13th August drowned from one of the boats of HCS Tubal Cain. Alfred Lingham Esq of the Exchange Calcutta aged 54 years 10 months and 18 days”.
 
1871 England census Lewisham Kent
Jane Lingham age 62, born india, Annuitant.
George Askew Lingham age 22 born India, clerk on stock exchange

[Kloumann]

Great research, Neale!

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Death notice in the Standard lists him as Edward Fraser Gladstone Lingham of 77 Elm Park Gardens

Marriage notice gives a bit more info

Edward Fraser Lingham - barrister at law and magistrate in Bengal
Charlotte, eldest daughter of Rev John Gladstone, rector of Stoke-on-Terne, county of Salop

so presumably when her father is listed as clerk on the marriage cert, they mean clerk in holy orders

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Edward kept his links with India as he is recorded in a newspaper as a passenger on a ship due in soon, having boarded in Bombay

There's also an early notice of an auction of the entire house contents of Mr E Gladstone Lingham of 77 Elm Park Street in April 1888, Consists of high class and artistic furniture including Collard and Collard pianoforte, Bell organ and billiard table by Burroughes and Watt

[Neale1961]

From Allens Indian Mail 10 Sept 1862
Marriages
“Lingham, Edward F., Barrister-at-law and Magistrate in Bengal, to Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. John Gladstone, Rector of Stoke-on-Terne, County of Salop, at St.George's, Hanover-square, Sept. 3.”

Gladstone-Lingham, Edward Fraser:
Practised before the High Court at Allahabad, a student of the Inner Temple 2 Nov.1872; 
Went to Lincoln's Inn 4 Nov.1874, where he was called to the bar 7 June 1875;
Married 3 Sept.1862, Charlotte, eldest dau. of Rev. John Gladstone, rector of Stoke-on-Tern, Salop.