William Sangster
Died Nov 1881
Aged 82 years 8 months
My search of the net for William Sangster threw up many with the surname but none with the India connection till Yahoo came to my aid:
William Sangster has been mentioned in Malcolm Speirs book Lucknow Families of the Raj.
The Hutton family
Mike Hutton
The Hutton family returned to England from India where they had been for several generations.
The Huttons are descended from a William Hutton.
His son, also named William Hutton, was born in 1834. This William married Eliza Sangster on 21st January 1859 in Lucknow, India.
William
and Eliza had a son, Isaac, born on 6th December 1868. Isaac married Julia Isabel Victoria Lange on 7th April 1891 at Cawnpore. Julia was
born on 1st September 1874, the daughter of Charles Ernest Augustine
Lange and Charlotte Priscilla Noney.
Isaac
died at the age of 44 on 21st March 1913 of 'exhaustion from muscular
neuralgia". His occupation at the time was 'travelling ticket examiner'.
He was buried on 22nd March 1913 at St.Thomas' Church, Dehra Dun, U.P.,
India.
Isaac (pictured below aged 23) and Julia had a son, Vernon Lovell Oscar Hutton, born on 24th August 1897 at Cawnpore. On 4th April 1936 he married his second wife, Aileen Leonora Huffton at Secunderabad. Vernon died on 26th April 1946 at Chanda Mission Hospital.
Vernon and Aileen were my grandparents.
(Blog author: This left the question: Who was Eliza Sangster's father? Must be William!!)
The Sangster family
(Blog author: This left the question: Who was Eliza Sangster's father? Must be William!!)
The Sangster family
My great-great-grandmother was Eliza Sangster. She married William Hutton on 21st January 1859 in Lucknow, India. This was William's second marriage.
He had previously married Louisa Anne Nixon on 16th June 1856, but Louisa died in childbirth on 13th March 1857, at Lucknow. She was aged 17.
It was two years later that William married Eliza who was 15. She was the daughter of William Sangster.
On the same day Eliza's sister, Ellen (who was already a widow at the age of 18), married Jonathan Edward Cearne (who was also a widower).
William and Eliza had a son on 6th December 1868 (baptised on 20th March 1869 at Christ Church, Lucknow). Isaac was my great-grandfather.
(This latest link 'The Sangster family' confirms the connection: George Shepherd)
He had previously married Louisa Anne Nixon on 16th June 1856, but Louisa died in childbirth on 13th March 1857, at Lucknow. She was aged 17.
It was two years later that William married Eliza who was 15. She was the daughter of William Sangster.
On the same day Eliza's sister, Ellen (who was already a widow at the age of 18), married Jonathan Edward Cearne (who was also a widower).
William and Eliza had a son on 6th December 1868 (baptised on 20th March 1869 at Christ Church, Lucknow). Isaac was my great-grandfather.
(This latest link 'The Sangster family' confirms the connection: George Shepherd)
11:22 PM (7 hours ago)
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Dear George
I have just come across your photographs of the grave of William Sangster on your blog along with the quotation from my website. Thank you for posting these. Given that the family were in Lucknow at that time there is a strong possibility that it is the grave of my great-great-great grandfather.
I have just ordered a copy of Malcolm Speirs' book "Lucknow families of the Raj" which I understand has some information on the Sangster family. If it contains any further details about William I'll let you know.
Best wishes
I have just come across your photographs of the grave of William Sangster on your blog along with the quotation from my website. Thank you for posting these. Given that the family were in Lucknow at that time there is a strong possibility that it is the grave of my great-great-great grandfather.
I have just ordered a copy of Malcolm Speirs' book "Lucknow families of the Raj" which I understand has some information on the Sangster family. If it contains any further details about William I'll let you know.
Best wishes
Dear Mike,
ReplyDeleteI was unable to open the web link that I received from you recently but this evening, Tuesday June 11, 2013, I read a few pages of Speir's book and found that William Sangster was mentioned in the introduction, I guess you must have see it yourself. The book should interest people with past connections to Lucknow!
Best wishes
George Shepherd