Birth: 20 June 1819, in Dallington,
Sussex, England
Baptism: 23 August 1819, in Dallington,
Sussex, England
Father: Thomas Ferris
Mother: Elizabeth Dorothy Lamb
Married (1st):Laura Evans on 19 November 1846, in
Chunar, Bengal, India.
Edward is listed as the son of Thomas Ferris. Laura is
listed as the daughter of Morison Evans. Simmond's Colonial Magazine Jan-Apr 1847 p364 MARRIAGES.
At Chunar, on the 19th Nov. Edward Fiott, son of the Rev. Thomas
Ferris, Vicar of Darlington, Sussex, to Laura, youngest daughter of the
late Maurice Evans, Esq., Army and Navy Agency, Strand, London.
Married (2nd): Martha Victoria (Ellis)
Kent on 20 July 1868, in St Mary, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire,
England. Edward is listed as the son of Edward Fiott Ferris. Martha is
listed as the daughter of William Ellis.
Martha was born on 25 July 1837, and baptised on 27 December 1840 in St
Luke, Old Street, Finsbury, Middlesex, the daughter of William Eliis
and Charlotte. She was previous married to Arthur Kent in 1861, in Newton
Abbot district,
Devon, and had at least one child, Anne Kent, born on 4 October 1865,
in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Arthur Kent owned a house, 48
Franchise street, in Kidderminster which he bought in approximately
1855. Days before her marriage to Edward Ferris, this house was put
into a trust, presumably to protect the interest of her daughter, Anne.
The house was sold in 1893, after after Edward's death in 1892.
Children:
Mabel Ferris (1869
- ? )
Edward and Martha were divorced in 1871, by the husband's petition. In
1881 Martha married William Henry Jones, a butler 15 years her junior,
in Cheltenham
district, Gloucestershire. Wililam and Martha are living, with
Mabel listed as a stepdaughter, at Merton
Villa, Winchcombe Road, Prestbury, Gloucestershire in the 1881 census.
Curiously, in the 1891 census, when she is a visitor in the house of
Charles Fontaine at 5 Welch Road, Herbert Terrace, in Portsea Island,
Hampshire, she is recorded again as Martha V. Ferris (rather than
Jones).
Married (3rd): Louisa _____.
Louisa was born in 1832/3, in Bangor, Wales.
Occupation: Army Officer. It seems
from his appointments that Edward was actually in the service of the
East India Company rather than the regular army. In 1846, Edward is
described as the "sub. dep. opium agent" at Juanpore, Bengal (Allen's Indian Mail 30 November 1846 p719).
By 1849, as we see in the advertisement below, Edward was a captain, in
command of the "Rampore forces in Rohilcund". The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal -
Mortimer-Percy p519 describes this assignment as "Commandant
Forces of Nawab
of Rampur".
Rampur was a princely state, now part of Uttar Pradesh. In 1853, in the
birth announcement of his daughter, Edward is still ranked captain. The
1881 census lists Edward as a retired army major.
In 1849, a letter wriiten by Edward professing to have seen a
miraculaous cure ascribed to Professor Holloway's ointment and pills,
was reprinted in advertisements for the ointment in many newspapers
around the world. An example of the advertisement, in Allen's Indian Mail 6 June 1849 p350 is
shown below. TO
PERSONS PARALYZED, &c.- EXTRAORDINARY CURE by HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT
and PILLS.- Copy of a letter from Captain E. F. Ferris, commanding
Rampore forces, Rohilcund, India, Jan 15, 1849- "To Professor Holloway.
Sir,- I deem that your wonderful medicines ought to be well known, and
I take the liberty of reporting a miraculous cure under my own eye. An
old woman had been for the last two years quite bedridden, having
entirely lost the use of her legs from the hip joint. Her limbs were
apparently quite dead, and without the slightest feeling, but by the
use of your Ointment and Pills she is quite restored. (Signed): E. F. FERRIS."
Sold by all venders of medicines, and at Professor Holloway's
establishment, 244, Strand, London; and by all European and Native
venders of medicine throughout the whole of the East Indies.
On his return to England, Edward partnered with Andrew George Hunter to
form the Landore Alkali Company with premises at 75 Mark Lane in the
city of London and Landore, near Swansea, Glamorganshire. This company
entered bankruptcy on 26 May 1863 (London Gazette 29 May 1863 p2828),
resolved by the payment to creditors of 7s 6d. on the pound (London Gazette 8 September 1863 p4402).
Marriage
(2nd): England Marriage Index (3Q1868 Warwick
vol 6d p604); exact date and place and parents from England
Marriages batch M15352-1;
This marriage may have been between Martha and Edwards's son, Edward
Stewart Fiott Ferris - the marriage record shows the groom's father to
be Edward Fiott Ferris, which would be true for the younger Edward, but
not for the older Edward whose father was Thomas Ferris. Against that,
however, the marriage (and divorce) records show only "Edward Fiott
Ferris" with no mention of the Stewart, and the age of the participants
(elder Edward is 49, Martha 31, younger Edward is 21) and marital
status (elder Edward and Martha are both previously married, and
probably widowed, with children, younger Edward is a bachelor) incline
me to believe that Martha's marriage was with the elder Edward. Both
father and son died within months of each other in 1892, so we do not
get any clue from the sale of the house held in trust for Edwrda and
Martha that was disposed of in 1893. Martha birth, baptism, parents
from England
Birth and Christenings batch C02524-4; Martha 1st marriage from
England Marriage Index (2Q1861 vol 5b p267); Anne Kent birth from England
Birth and Christenings batch C02069-4; Edward-Martha divorce from National
Archives J77/111; Martha 3rd marriage from England Marriage Index
(2Q1881 vol 6a p769); 48 Franchise Street details from Historic
Kidderminster Project
Marriage
(3rd): 1881 census; Louisa birth
from 1881 census
Married: Emma Susanna Campling. Emma
was born in 1850, in Norwich, Norfolk, England. In the 1901 census,
Emma's occupation is listed as grocer's shopkeeper. She died in Norwich
district in 1918, aged 67.
Census & Addresses:
1900: Sussex Road, Norwich, Norfolk (baptism
registration of daughter Purrie at FreeReg)
1901: Norwich, Norfolk: Emma Feris is aged 49, born in Norwich, a Grocers Shopkeeper
1912: 42 Sussex Road, Norwich, Norfolk (manifest
of the St Louis 27 October
1912)
1914: 42 Sussex Road, Norwich, Norfolk (manifest
of the Olympic 17 October 1914)
Marriage: 1881 census; Emma
birth from England
Birth Index (1Q1850 Norwich vol 13 p269) with exact place from 1881
census; Emma's last name from The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal -
Mortimer-Percy p519; Emma occupation from 1901 census; Emma death from England Death Index
(3Q1918 Norwich vol 4b p114)
Notes: Gladys emigrated to the
United States with her husband, arriving in the US on 27 October 1912, aboard
the St Louis. In that
manifest she is listed as 5'6" tall, with a fair complexion, black hair
and blue eyes. Two years later, in the manifest
of the Olympic, she is
listed as 5'5" tall, with a fair complexion, brown hair and blue eyes.
Marriage: England Marriage
Index (3Q1911 Norwich
vol 4b p237); exact date and place from England
Marriages batch I04155-5; William birth from England Birth Index
(3Q1861 St Giles vol 1b p407) with exact date from biography
at AskART.com; William occupation, education, memberships and death
from biography
at AskART.com; William 1st marriage and Hamilton birth from 1900 census
Buried: St Laurence Churchyard,
Brundell, Norfolk, England
Census: 1881:
21 Cumming Street, London, Middlesex
1901: Norwich, Norfolk: Grace Feris is aged 23, born in London Kings Cross, a School Hard Teacher
1911: Aylsham, Norfolk
Sources:
Birth: England Birth
Index (3Q1878 Holborn vol 1b p748); exact place from 1881 census
Birth: 19 January 1853, in Moradabad,
Bengal, India Allen's Indian Mail 4 April 1853 p164 BIRTHS. FERRIS, the lady of Capt. E. F. d. at Moradabad, Jan. 19.
Baptism: 7 February 1853, in Moradabad,
Bengal, India
Father:Edward Fiott Ferris
Married (1st): Cecil Thomas Clement
Gilbert in 1905, in Hastings
district, Sussex, England.
Cecil was born in 1856, in Hemsby, Norfolk, and christened on 20
January 1856 in Hemsby, the son of Clement Gilbert and Agnes Katherine
Copeman. Cecil was educated at Eton College. In 1881, his occupation is
listed as "landowner".
Census & Addresses: 1861: West Flegg, Norfolk 1881:
20 New Hall, Strumpshaw, Norfolk 1891: Cromer Road, Buxton,
Norfolk
1901: Aylsham, Norfolk: Cecil T. C. Gilbert is aged 45, born in Hemsby,
Norfolk and living on own means.
Married (2nd):
Frank Parkinson Bush in 1918 in St
Giles district, London, England. Frank was born in 1864, in
Byfield, Northamptonshire. He was a medical doctor, passing the
examining board of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in
physiology on 10 July 1890 (The Lancet 19 July 1890 p6). He was
elected vice-president of the Norfolk branch of the British Medical
Association in 1923 (British Medical Journal 23 June 1923 p276). 1881:
Milton College, Little Claybrooke, Leicester, England
1901: St Martin, London: Frank P. Bush, aged 36 born Byfield Northants.
Physician & Surgeon
1911: Norwich, Norfolk: Frank Perkinson Bush, aged 46
Birth: England Birth
Index (1Q1880 Holborn vol 1b p785); exact place from 1881 census
Parents: 1881 census
Marriage
(1st): England Marriage Index
(2Q1905 Hastings vol 2b p78); Cecil birth from England Birth Index
(1Q1856 Flegg vol 4b p33) with exact place from 1881 census; Cecil
baptism, parents from England
Births and Christenings batch C04500-2 with mother's surname from
England Marriage Index (2Q1853 Marylebone vol 1a p723); Cecil education
from The Eton Register Part IV 1871-1880 p6
(1907); Cecil occupation from 1881 census
Marriage
(2nd): England Marriage Index
(3Q1918 St Giles vol 1b p1142); Frank birth from England Birth Index
(4Q1864 Coventry vol 3b p102) with place from 1881 census; Frank
occupation from 1901 census
Occupation: 1901 census
Death:
England Death Index (4Q1927 Norwich vol 4b p155)
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