The Lewall Family

Bernard Cecil Lewall

Birth: 30 November 1894

Father:
Charles Laird James Albert Lewall

Mother: Beatrice Katharine Maxwell (Lyte) Lewall

Notes:
Bernard served in the army from 1914 until 1920, in the Lord Strathcona's Horse, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. He was wounded in in the 3rd Battle of the Somme. Bernard emigrated to British Columbia, Canada, and became a land surveyor on the rather rugged northern coast.

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Charles Laird James Albert Lewall

Birth: June 1840, in Schloss Oberwerth, near Coblentz, Rhenish Prussia

Father: John Charles Lewall, Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Jena, 1838

Mother: Sarah Mary Bolton. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Bolton of Westhumble Manor, Surrey.

Married: Beatrice Katharine Maxwell Lyte on 20 March 1890, in St Mary's Priory, Chelsea, London

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Death: 1906, in Epsom district, Surrey, England, aged 66

Buried: Sutton Common cemetery, London, England

Notes: Living in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1897

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James Farnham Lewall

Birth: 17 January 1891

Father:
Charles Laird James Albert Lewall

Mother: Beatrice Katharine Maxwell (Lyte) Lewall
Katherine Margaret Dempster
Katherine Margaret Dempster (1907)
pencil sketch by Thomas Fripp
scan courtesy of Jim Lewall

Married: Katherine Margaret Dempster on 19 September 1914, in St Andrews Church, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Katherine was born 27 March 1893, in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, the daughter of William Arnold Dempster and Mary Chipman Rounsefell. This was the second of Katherine's three marriages; she had a son, Patrick, with her first husband, Claude Crombie.

Notes: James served in the Canadian Army in WWI. He was taken off the line with severe trench fever..tried to join the Royal Flying Corp as a pilot but was rejected so became a balloon observer with RFC.

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