Lydia Rosina (Alexander) Graham (1893 - 1974)

Born 8 Jun 1893 in Saint Helena

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Frederick Clingham — married 15 Jan 1915 in Claremont, Cape Province, South Africa

Wife of Charles Edward Graham — married 1952 in Gwelo, Gweru, Midlands, Southern Rhodesia

Descendants

Died 24 Jul 1974 at age 81 in Umtali, Manicaland Province, Rhodesia

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Biography

Lydia Rosina was born 8 June 1893 on Saint Helena. She was baptised 21 July 1893 at St Paul's, daughter of unmarried woman Adelaide Alexander.

• There are no Saint Helena records for Adelaide Alexander other than this one baptism. In 1901, Ada Adelaide Alexander Ellick married William Yon on Saint Helena. Ada passed away in 1927 in Rhodesia. Lydia Rosina Yon married Edward Clingham in South Africa in 1915. It appears that when Ada gave birth to Lydia as an unmarried woman, she baptised the child using two of her forenames and left her surname of Ellick off the baptism record. When Ada Ellick married William Yon in 1901, eight year old Lydia assumed the surname of her step-father William Yon and went to South Africa with her mother and step-father. When her mother died in 1927,informant for the death registration was daughter Lydia Clingham.

Ada Adelaide Alexander Ellick married William Alfred Yon 15 Jul 1901 at St Paul's Church on Saint Helena.

15 Jan 1915 - Bachelor 30 yr old Farrier Edward Frederick Clingham married Spinster 21 yr old Lydia Rosina Yon in Claremont, South Africa.

There are several records indicating that she and her husband Edward Frederick visited Cape Town often but none confirming when they arrived in Rhodesia. They appear to have moved to Gwelo and before her death she was residing in Umtali.

Lydia Graham died in July 1974 at age 81, in Umtali, Zimbabwe.^[1]

NOTE: Unsourced family tree handed down to David Clingham.

Sources

1. ↑ "Zimbabwe Death notices, 1904-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-CFSQ-MT?cc=1838530&wc=M6DF-FNP%3A164471201%2C164748201 : 2 May 2016), Umtali > Death Notices 1974, Vol. 704 > image 56 of 100; National Archives, Harare.

• Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA). The Diocese of St Helena Parish Registers and Indices held at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Historical Papers Research Archive series AB2073:
  • Saint Helena Baptism Register St Paul's 21 Jul 1893 [1]
• "South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTWC-2PP?cc=1468076&wc=SFVH-16V%3A44975801%2C44975802%2C46203301%2C46267201 : 5 July 2022), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Cape Town, Claremont, St Saviour > Marriages 1853-1925 > image 190 of 291; William Cullen Library, Wits University, Johannesburg.