1903-05-27 | b. Berbice, British Guiana | National Probate Calendar; Mary Spence Watson 'The Story of Our Lives from Year to Year', birthday book, made for Caroline Richardson; Alice Mary Merz, 'Family Notes', typescript; Canadian passenger lists; Index to Alien Case Files at the National Archives at Kansas City |
1903-09-26 | arrived in Newcastle with his mother | Alice Mary Merz, 'Family Notes', typescript |
1904-01-08 | with his mother and his siblings, paid a 10-day visit to Newcastle | |
1908-08-11 | with his mother and his siblings, came to England from Berbice; "very poorly from Malaria we hear" | |
1909-01-26 | with his mother and his siblings, returned to B. Guiana | |
1913-03-14 | school boy, of British Guiana, arrived London from Demerara, travelling 1st class aboard the East Asiatic Co. St Jan; apparently accompanied by a Mrs J.B. Finney, married lady | UK incoming passenger lists |
1914-07-17 | with his mother and his siblings, in England for restoration from malaria and education | Alice Mary Merz, 'Family Notes', typescript |
1916-01-27 | schoolboy; departed Liverpool for Georgetown, travelling 1st class aboard the Booker Bros. McConnell & Co. s/s Arakaka, intending residence in British Guiana | UK outward passenger lists |
1917-05-02 | with his mother and brother, arrived St John, New Brunswick, Canada, from Bermuda, travelling tourist class aboard the Chaleur | Canadian passenger lists |
1917-05-17 | "Mildred taken Somers to Canada to see if hospital there can restore to her boy his power of walking which he lost during malarial fever." | Alice Mary Merz, 'Family Notes', typescript |
1921 | not found in census | |
1931/1935 | m. Mary Theodora Lennox Robertson (1889–1967, b. Buenos Aires, Argentina), in the British Consulate, Nice, France | GRO index; British Armed Forces And Overseas Banns And Marriages; National Probate Calendar; Davies Family Tree |
1931-02-28 |
MARRIAGE. GILL—ROBERTSON.—On February 28th, 1931, at Nice, Somers Douglas Gill, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Gill, late of British Guiana, to Mary Theodora Lennox, Younger daughter of the late Rev. A.G. Lennox Robertson, of St. Barnabas' Vicarage, Beckenham, and Mrs. Robertson, of Nice. |
Bromley & West Kent Mercury, 1931-03-20 |
1937-07-20 | advertiser; executor of his mother's will | National Probate Calendar |
1939-09-29 | not found in 1939 Register | 1939 England and Wales Register (TNA: RG 101) |
1939/1959 | lived in Esher, Surrey | Davies Family Tree |
1952-09-23 | company director, of Belvedere House, 115 High Street, Esher; with his wife, departed London for Lisbon aboard the Dodero Line 17 de Octubre | passenger lists leaving UK |
1954-12-31 | had been left £400 in the will of his godfather Somers Howe Ellis | Leicester Evening Mail |
1959/1980 | lived at 24 Rue Du Grand Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland | Davies Family Tree |
1962-08-12 | advertising consultant, of Geneva | |
1965-06-17 | arrived New York from the UK | Index to Alien Case Files at the National Archives at Kansas City |
1967-12-02 | advertising consultant (retired); arrived Sydney Airport, Australia, from San Francisco, aboard flight 589; intended address in Australia c/o Mr R.W. Gill, 12 Alice Street, Torramorra, N.S.W.; visiting mainly for holiday, but intended length of stay indefinite | Australian national passenger lists |
1980-10-16 | of Apartment No 3012, Bldg Guipuzcoa, Les Jardins d'arcadie Anglet, Pyrenees Atlantique, France; d. | National Probate Calendar; National Probate Calendar |
1982-03-03 | admon with will, at London; £115,393 in England and Wales | National Probate Calendar |
1986-12-09 | admon with will, at London; £5262 in England and Wales; former grant 3 March 1982 Cessate | National Probate Calendar |
1905-01-30 | b. Berbice, British Guiana | 1930 US federal census; Florida death index; New York passenger lists; US Social Security death index; petition for naturalization |
1908-08-11 | with her mother and her siblings, came to England from Berbice; "very poorly from Malaria we hear" | Alice Mary Merz, 'Family Notes', typescript |
1909-01-26 | with her mother and her siblings, returned to B. Guiana | |
1914-07-17 | with her mother and her siblings, in England for restoration from malaria and education | |
1918 | immigrated to USA | 1930 US federal census |
1919-01-19 | schoolgirl, last residence Monmouth; arrived New York from Liverpool, aboard the SS Lapland; intended destination Brooklyn, New York | New York passenger lists |
1921-04-22 | h'work; departed Georgetown, British Guiana, aboard the SS John Rosalie Hull | Pennsylvania passenger and crew lists |
1921-05-23 | arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | |
1921-05-24 | examined and admitted at Philadelphia; had spent 6 months in Vermont and New York in 1919; passage paid by her father; good health, 5'7½", fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes | |
1921 | not found in census | |
1924-06-02 | domes., last residence Ilfracombe; departed Southampton for New York; final destination New London, Conn.; father resident at Castle House, Ilfracombe; had previously visited New York, in 1920 and 1923; going to join fiancé L.E. Battin, 6 Franklin St, New London, Conn., for permanent residence; 5'8", fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes | New York passenger lists |
1924-06-14 | last foreign residence Ilfracombe; arrived New York from Plymouth, aboard the Saxonia | petition for naturalization |
1924-06-21 | m. Lambert Earle Battin (1898–1995, retail merchant, coal, later owner and mariner of a fishing and pleasure boat, b. New Jersey, USA), at Fair Haven, New Jersey, USA | petition for naturalization; 1930 US federal census; Davies Family Tree |
Child: | Richard Bigelow (1928 – after 1965), b. Niantic, Connecticut, USA | petition for naturalization; source misplaced |
1930 | living with her family in River Road, Waterford, New London, Connecticut, in their own home, valued at $5000 | 1930 US federal census |
1935 | living with her family in Waterford, New London, Connecticut | 1940 US federal census |
1936-05-06 | housewife, arrived London from Philadelphia, via Halifax N.S., aboard the American Hampton Roads Line S.S. Capilin, travelling cabin class; proposed UK address College Road, Ringwood, Hampshire | UK incoming passenger lists |
1936-09-30 | h'wife, of Cothays College Rd, Ringswood; departed Southampton for New York, travelling tourist class aboard the Cunard S.S. Queen Mary | UK outward passenger lists |
1936-10-05 | housewife, last permanent residence Niantic, Connecticut; with her son, arrived New York from Southampton, aboard the S.S. Queen Mary | New York passenger lists |
1936-11-18 | housewife, of Niantic, Connecticut; has resided in New London County since 1924 | petition for naturalization |
1937-11-09 | of Niantic, Connecticut; naturalized | US naturalization record indexes; petition for naturalization |
1940 | living with her family in Flansless Road, Waterford, New London | 1940 US federal census |
before 1951 | registered for Social Security, SSN 115-07-9019 | US Social Security death index |
1957-05-25 | arrived New York from London aboard TWA flight 967/25 | New York passenger lists and arrivals |
1960 | bkkpr, living with her husband at 123 State r Quarry Dock rd Ntc (Saunders Point), New London, Connecticut | US city directories |
1961/1964 | bkkpr, living with her husband at 545 Broad r Quarry Dock rd Ntc (Saunders Point), New London, Connecticut | |
1965 | with her husband, rem to Florida | |
1993 | of 3715 Indian River Dr, Cocoa, FL, 32926-8705 | US Public Records Index |
1998-01-04 | last benefit, 32926, Cocoa, Brevard, Florida; last residence, 32953 Merritt Island, Brevard; d. Brevard, Florida, USA | US Social Security death index; Florida death index |
bur. Fair View Cemetery, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA | Find a Grave |
1907-08-04 | b. Georgetown, British Guiana | GRO index; Mary Spence Watson 'The Story of Our Lives from Year to Year', birthday book, made for Caroline Richardson; Australia, World War II military service records; parish register; Australian national passenger lists says Berbice |
1908-08-11 | with his mother and his siblings, came to England from Berbice; "very poorly from Malaria we hear" | Alice Mary Merz, 'Family Notes', typescript |
1909-01-26 | with his mother and his siblings, returned to B. Guiana | |
1914-07-17 | with his mother and his siblings, in England for restoration from malaria and education | |
1915-06-09 | with his mother, departed London for Demerara, travelling first class aboard the Direct Line Spheroid | UK outward passenger lists |
1921 | not found in census | |
1929-06-13 | farmer, of 13 Council St, Waverley, New South Wales, Australia; m. Dorothy Elizabeth Clausen (1904–1984, b. Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, d. of Anthony Edward and Dagne Elizabeth (Christiansen) Clausen), at St Matthias Centennial Park Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales | parish register; Australia, World War II military service records; Rogers Family Tree |
Children: | Patricia Fay (1929 – after 1958), John Somers (1932 – after 1963), and Graeme Wigham (1936–1978) | PRIMARY McCarthy 2016-04-25 |
1933/1937 | salesman, living with his wife in Hampden road, Pennant Hills, Parramatta, New South Wales | electoral rolls |
c. 1939/1945 | enlisted in the Army Citizen Military Forces, at Westgarth, Victoria, Australia | Australia, World War II military service records |
1949 | manager, living with his wife at 39 Sunburst av., E.9, Balwyn, Kooyong, Victoria | electoral roll |
1962-04-28 | arrived Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, aboard aircraft registration VH-ECD; Australian citizen; company manager, returning to live in Australia permanently; last in Australia 25 days previously | Australian national passenger lists |
1963-12-09 | Qantas passenger at Fremantle, Western Australia, ex Singapore for Sydney | Fremantle passenger lists |
1965-08-02 | arrived in Australia, returning to live there permanently; sales manager; British Australian; last in Australia 40 days previously; intended address 25 Longford St, Roseville, Sydney, N.S.W. | Australian national passenger lists |
1965-11-19 | arrived in Australia, returning to live there permanently; sales manager; British Australian; last in Australia 10 days previously; intended address 12 Alice St, Turramurra, Sydney, N.S.W. | Australian national passenger lists |
1966-06-03 | arrived in Australia, returning to live there permanently; sales manager; British Australian; last in Australia 7 days previously; intended address 12 Alice St, Turramurra, N.S.W. | Australian national passenger lists |
1967-02-13 | arrived in Australia, returning to live there permanently; sales manager; British Australian; last in Australia 1 day previously; intended address 12 Alice St, Turramurra, N.S.W. | Australian national passenger lists |
1968-06-08 | arrived in Australia, returning to live there permanently; sales manager; British Australian; last in Australia 21 days previously; intended address 12 Alice St, Turramurra, N.S.W. | Australian national passenger lists |
1969-02-26 | arrived in Australia, returning to live there permanently; sales manager; British Australian; intended address 12 Alice St, Turramurra, N.S.W. | Australian national passenger lists |
1975-01-27 | d. Narooma, New South Wales | Peter CLELAND Family Tree |
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