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- The second son of Arthur and Jane (nee Bacon) Humphrys. His father died when George was 8 years old (October 1874) and when his mother married again, to John Jones in London in October 1876, the 3 boys were taken by his father's family because the new husband was 'in trade' [family story]. According to the Marriage Certificate of Jane and John Jones, he was an Upholsterer, and his father (deceased) , Robert Jones, was a farmer. An entry in the 1881 Census has the household of John Jones and his wife, Jane J. Jones. (See FamilyTreeMaker entry for Jane Isabella Bacon)
George entered Oswestry School, Salop, on 27 August 1875 and left in 1876 and spent a year in the school of Miss Palin of Colwyn. In September 1877 he returned to Oswestry School as a boarder and stayed until Christmas 1883. His guardians were a Mrs Williamson and Mr M S Forster who was Headmaster of the School from 1873 to July 1887. [Letter to Ruth Hill from Headmaster 31 August 1983; also from A History of Oswestry School, by Richard R Oakley, 1959]
Mrs Williamson was his Aunt Mary Williamson, nee Humphrys, and Michael Seymour Forster was the husband of his Aunt Bessie (Elizabeth) Humphrys.
The letter to Ruth Hill also gives details of George's brothers' schooling at Oswestry.(qv)
Cyclopaedia of New Zealand, 1897, Vol 1, Wellington, pp 721 -1526. Page 1289 has the following entry:
Humphry, G. H. Farmer, Wentworth, Hunterville. Born in Manchester in 1866 and educated at Oswestry Grammar School, Mr Humphry came to Wellington in 1884 and became a cadet on Mr N. Fitzherbert's estate in the Turakina Valley, where he remained for three years. He visited England in 1887, returning the following year, and subsequently purchased 625 acres, which he has improved, fenced and grassed, and on which he erected a substantial dwelling. In 1890 Mr Humphry married Miss Cameron of Wairarapa and has two daughters.
A further entry,[p.1341] for Taurimu Farm, Turakina: "the property of Mr Norman Fitzherbert, is under the management of Mr John Gibson" [since1891]. On p.1253 is the entry for Anthony FitzHerbert," farmer, 'Norbury' near Pakihikura...a son of the late Colonel FitzHerbert, was born in Derbyshire in 1863, and was educated at Malvern College, Worcestershire. He landed in NZ in 1879, and settled in the Rangitikei Districts, where he joined his brother, and engaged in farming...married a daughter of Mr Chas Bull of Aorangi, Feilding and has one daughter."
10Mar2002
From 'Who's Who in NZ & the western Pacific" 4th ed. 1941, p.145 - an entry for LtCol Norman Fitzherbert, CMG, CBE, says he was born 1858, son of Lt Col R H Fitzherbert of Somersal Herbert, Derby. (See more in Notes for him)
From Palmerston North Cemetery's database:
Catherine Lyons Humphries, died 30 January 1908 aged 41 years, and was buried on 1 February 1908 in Terrace End Cemetery, area TE, Block 202, plot 011. Plot was bought by George Herbert Humphries. Funeral directors were Bett & co.
George Herbert Humphrys, Farmer, of 144 Russell Street, died 29 November 1940 aged 74 years, buried 2 Decmber 1940 in Kelvin Grove Cemetery, area F, block 001, plot number 012. The plot was bought by Marion Isabel Humphrys, and the funeral directos were Griggs.
NOTES TO PONDER:
George's cousin, Charles BILL of Farley Hall, Cheadle, had married Miss Ellen Fitzherbert of Somershal Herbert, Derbyshire. Is there a connection
a) with Norman Fitzherbert of Turakina? [See above] Ellen's father was Colonel Richard FitzHerbert - were Norman and Anthony her
brothers and therefore GHH's second cousins? YES! (Norman)
b) with George's second name being Herbert?
Who was George Henderson, supposedly an uncle who lived in Newcastle and who was very rich. He left money to George's daughters, Dorothy and Ida. Was he on the Humphrys side or the Bacon side? Probably Bacon, given their connections with Co Durham.
Researching George Edward Henderson, he was married to George Herbert's aunt, Lucy Bacon, sister of his mother, who died childless. He was at various times, according to Censuses, a Shipowner, a merchant, and a Dock owner, who died in 1916.
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