Hester McNeill Boyd (Carpenter) MacCallan (1893 - 1960)

Born 17 Jan 1893 in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom

Wife of Arthur Ferguson MacCallan CBE — married 12 Sep 1918 in Egypt

Died 25 Mar 1960 at age 67 in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Hester was born on 17 January 1893^[1] at Westminster, London.^[2] She was the fourth child and third daughter of William Carpenter and Annie Gardner who married in 1883. Her father had been widowed in 1877 after the birth of eight children in his first marriage. The first child of this marriage died as an infant in early 1885. Hester's father was the Bishop of Ripon at the time of her birth. Hester's birth was registered at St George Hanover Square registration district, London, in the first quarter of 1893.

At the 1901 census Hester, and an older sister, Beatrice, but using her third forename Margaret, together with their inferred governess, were apparently on holiday in Bath, Somerset. They were recorded as visitors to 72 Pulteney Street, Bath, where the head of the household was listed as lodging house keeper. Details - sister Margaret Carpenter (visitor, 15, born Ripon, Yorkshire), Hester Carpenter (visitor, 8, born Victoria, London) and Margaret Bence (visitor, single, 22, governess, born France). The parental home remained at the Eclesiastical Palace, Ripon, although both parents appear to have been at London, perhaps on business, at this same census.^[3]

The 1911 census recorded Hester was at the family home, the Bishop's Palace, Ripon, Yorkshire. Details - father William Boyd Carpenter (70, Bishop of Ripon, born Liverpool), mother Annie Maude Carpenter (57, born Stamford Hill, London), Hester MacNeill Boyd Carpenter (single, 18, born Westminster, London), visiting half-brother John Peers Boyd-Carpenter (married, 39, Captain in Army - private means, born Tetsworth, Oxfordshire), visiting half-sister-in-law Lucy Boyd-Carpenter (married, 59 (or 54), born Yorkshire), visiting grandmother Harriet Gardner (widow, 85, born Brixton, London), and visiting auant Mabel? Gardner (single, 45, born Stamford Hill). The household on the census day included a further two visitors (the Bishop of Richmond and his inferred secretary), and nine servants - cook, two maids, two laundry maids, kitchenmaid, housemaid, scullery maid, and footman. This census also noted that her parents had been married for 27 years, and there had been four children of this marriage, one of whom had died.

Hester married Dr. Arthur Fergus MacCallan on 12 September 1918, in Egypt. Hester had first travelled to Egypt to stay with her half-brother, Henry John (Carpenter) Boyd-Carpenter (1865-1923), the Chief Inspector of the Egyptian Government Schools, and worked as a volunteer nurse with the British Red Cross. She first met her husband to be in 1917. Her husband was an eminent ophthalmologist who had worked in Egypt since 1903. He was 20 years her elder. There were three children of the marriage.^[4]

Son, William David MacCallan, was born on 9 April 1927 at London - he died on 19 August 2005.^[5]

At the 1939 England and Wales Register Hester was listed at 33 Welbeck Street, St Marylebone, London. Details - Hester Mc B MacCallan (born 17 January 1893, married). She was a member of the British Red Cross Society, London Detachment. Her husband was absent when the Register was recorded.

Hester's husband, Arthur Ferguson MacCallan, C.B.E. of The Downs, Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, died 31 March 1955 ...... Probate to Hester McNeill Boyd MacCallan, widow, Christine Elizabeth MacCallan, spinster, and Douglas Ferguson MacCallan, major H.M. army.^[6]

Hester McNeill Boyd McCallan or MacCallan of Tile barn Holt, Woolton Hill, Newbury, Berkshire, widow, died 25 March 1960 at Westminster Hospital, London. probate ...... to Douglas Ferguson MacCallan, retired major, H.M. army, and Mary Patricia Traill MacCallan (wife of the said Douglas Ferguson MacCallan). National Probate Calendar - 1960) Her death was registered at Westminster registration district, London, in the first quarter of 1960, aged 67.

Sources

1. ↑ full birth date from 1939 England and Wales register
2. ↑ place of birth from 19911 census
3. ↑ 1901 England Census for William B Carpenter, London, Westminster St James, District 10
4. ↑ National Library of Medicine (an official site of the USA Government) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5788072/
5. ↑ William David MacCallan in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (Ancestry.com) from Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.
6. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Arthur Ferguson MacCallan, 1955 (Ancestry.com) from Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England

• England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 for Hester McNeill B Carpenter, 1893, Q1-Jan-Feb-Mar

• 1901 England Census for Hester Carpenter, Somerset, Bath, Bathwick, District 2

• 1911 England Census for Hester MacNeill Boyd Carpenter, Yorkshire-West Riding, North Stainley with Sleningford, Sutton Grange, 16

• 1939 England and Wales Register for Hester Mc. B Maccallan, London, St Marylebone Met B, Arap (Ancestry.com) from The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/457e

• England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 for Hester M B Maccallan, 1960, Q1-Jan-Feb-Mar

• England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Hester McNeill Boyd MacCallan, 1960 (Ancestry.com) from Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England