Wilfrid John Jervois (1892 - 1989)

Born 1892 in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England

Husband of Audrey Barbara (Viner) Jervois — married 1925 in Kensington, London, England

Died 13 Feb 1989 at about age 97 in Hastings and Rother, Sussex, England

Biography

WILFRID JOHN JERVOIS (Jervois-47)

PARENTS. John Jervois & Florence Annie (Price) Jervois

BIRTH. 1892, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England

BIRTH. 1892

Name Wilfrid John Jervois

Event Type Birth Registration

Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec

Registration Year 1892

Registration District Hartley Wintney

County Hampshire

Event Place Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England

Volume 2C, Page 153, Affiliate Line Number 174

England and Wales Census, 1901:

Name Florence A Jervois

Event Type Census

Event Date 31 Mar 1901

Event Place Bitterne, Hampshire, England

County Hampshire

Civil Parish Bitterne

Ecclesiastical Parish Holy Saviour

Sub-District South Stoneham

Registration District South Stoneham

Residence Note Bitterne Common

Gender Female

Age 42

Occupation LIVING ON OWN MEANS

Relationship to Head of Household Head

Birth Year (Estimated) 1859

Birthplace South Australia Adelaide

Schedule Type 232

Page Number 36

HOUSEHOLD ROLE SEX AGE BIRTHPLACE

Florence A Jervois Head F 42 South Australia Adelaide

Lucy H Jervois Daughter F 14 New Zealand Wellington

Wilfred J Jervois Son M 8 Farnborough, Hampshire

Sarah L Harris Governess F 42 Chester

Alice J Merwood Nurse F 37 Freshwater, Isle Of Wight

Emma J Spooner Servant F 23 Downham, Cambridgeshire

Ellen Stoodley Servant F 29 Netherbury, Dorsetshire

Alice North Servant F 33 Odiham, Hampshire

EDUCATION: Attended Wellington College from Michaelmas Term 1906 to Summer Term 1911

MARRIAGE. 1925, Kensington, London, England

MARRIAGE. 1925, Audrey Barbara Viner, daughter of George Heath Viner & Ella (Hunnard) Viner

MARRIAGE. 1925

Name Audrey B Viner

Event Type Marriage Registration

Event Place Kensington, London, England

Registration District Kensington

County London

Registration Year 1925

Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep

Page 304, Affiliate Line Number 40, Volume 1A

Spouse Name (available after 1911) Jervois

Possible Spouse Wilfrid J Jervois

Children: Not known

Death of Spouse: 1979, England

DEATH. 13 Feb 1989, Hastings & Rother, Sussex, England

DEATH. 1989

Name Wilfrid John Jervois

Event Type Death Registration

Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar

Registration Year 1989

Registration District Hastings & Rother

County Sussex

Event Place Hastings & Rother, Sussex, England

Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969) 12 Oct 1892

Volume 18, Page 956

BURIAL. St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Burwash, Rother District, East Sussex, England

Wilfrid John Jervois

BIRTH 1890, England

DEATH 1989 (aged 98–99). England

MEMORIAL ID 59095653

OBITUARY: BRIGADIER W.J. JERVOIS, M.C. We announce with regret the death of 13 February of possibly our oldest member, Brigadier Wilfrid Jervois. A lifelong devotee of Rudyard Kipling, and a few years senior to John Kipling at Wellington, he was well informed on matters relating to Burwash, where he lived for some time, and he was an occasional contributor on a number of topics to the Kipling Journal. His varied military career, spanning both World Wars, was covered in detail in a Telegraph obituary (4 March 1989) and is outside our purview, but since he corresponded regularly with me until just before his death, I will add a personal word. Widowed since 1979, and latterly confined to a nursing home, he was fortunate in retaining to the end a clear mind, a strong personality, a good sense of humour and an attractive ability to evoke vividly remembered vignettes of the remote past. In his ninety-seventh year he was still writing elegant and charming letters, tackling the Telegraph crossword with zest, and taking lively interest both in the affairs of this Society and in the state of the wider world. —Ed.

Sources

• Birth: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2X1T-2HY

• England and Wales Census, 1901: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXP-FHS

• Wellington College Register, Tenth Edition, pub. 1985 - The Old Wellingtonian Society

• Marriage: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZT-SW9G

• Death: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZ4-N4LT

• Burial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59095653/ilfrid-john-jervois

• Obituary: Kipling Journal, http://www.kiplingjournal.com/textfiles/KJ249.txt