NEGUS.tba
Negus Family Bible
Submitted 10th Dec, 1996 by:
Robin B. Clay
Clematis Cottage
Child Okeford
BLANDFORD FORUM
Dorset DT11 8EH
Great Britain
e-mail: robin.clay@pillarbox.coracle.com
The Bible was inherited by Mary MacDonald-Watson
whose mother Diana Clay was born NEGUS
Surnames in this file:
COOPER
CREAGHE
NEGUS
PARKER_JERVIS
PIKE
YOUNG-JAMIESON
There are three pages inscribed, bound in between the Old and the
New Testaments.
I believe the Bible dates from about 1870, it may have been a
wedding present to the first couple.
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// First page
REGISTER OF BIRTHS
[ all in Hand 1, except where shown ]
Thomas Addison NEGUS, September 24th 1842
Edith Mary NEGUS, November 5th 1851
Married Sept. 24th 1872. Had issue. [ underlined, and in Hand 2 ]
Margaret Jane NEGUS, June 29th 1873
Isabel Mary NEGUS, November 9th 1874
Winifred Edith NEGUS, May 17th 1876
Henry Addison NEGUS, September 24th 1877
Dorothea Vivian NEGUS, January 2nd 1879
Robert Essington NEGUS, May 4th 1884
Arthur Victor NEGUS, December 28th 1886
Evelyn Hope NEGUS, May 5th 1889 [ in Hand 2 ]
// Second Page
REGISTER OF MARRIAGES
[ NEGUS names are underlined; each entry appears to be in a
different hand ]
Isabel Mary [NEGUS], January 28th 1909
Harry James YOUNG-JAMIESON of Fowey, Cornwell.
Robert Essington [NEGUS], July 20th 1909
Edith Maud COOPER,
youngest daughter of Richard Powell COOPER of Shenstone Court
Evelyn Hope [NEGUS], August 8th 1912
Percy FitzRoy Liton [Seton?] CREAGHE
eldest son of Philip CREAGHE, R.M.,
of Kilcreene [Kilcrune?] House, Kilkenny, Ireland
Arthur Victor NEGUS, Feb 11th 1914
Evelyn, 2nd (twin) daughter of Thomas Swynfen PARKER-JERVIS
of Footherly Hall, near Lichfield.
Dorothes Vivian NEGUS, April 10th 1920
Joseph PIKE, of Instow, Devon, only son of William Lewenson PIKE,
of Richmond House, Appledore, [Barnstaple], Devon
// Third Page
REGISTER OF DEATHS
Henry Addison NEGUS, March 26th 1889 [ Hand 2 ]
Thomas Addisoan NEGUS, December 30th 1918
// end of NEGUS Bible
// end of this file
