Charles Tyldesley Rhodes Sands (1832 - 1905)

Born 22 Jul 1832 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Cameron (Rattray) Sands — married 12 Sep 1855 in Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Husband of Mary Rokas (Lawder) Sands — married about 1890 in Baltimore, Maryland

Descendants

Died 19 Feb 1905 at age 72 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland

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Biography

Charles Tyldesley Rhodes Sands was born in 1832 in Nassau, Bahamas to William Sands and Mary Knowles. He was christened 30 August 1832 at Christ Church, Nassau by the Reverend William Hepworth, Rector.

Charles TR Sands married twice; first, in 1855, to Margaret Cameron Rattray, and second, about 1889 - 1890, Mary Rokas Lawder of Baltimore, Maryland.

The Bahama Herald noted Mr. Sands' first marriage as follows: "Married, at Rock Sound, on the 12th instant, by the Rev. Thomas Lofthouse, W.M., Mr Charles Tidley Sands, to Margaret Cameron, third daughter of James S Rattray, Esq." The couple had children - among them John C, Mary Eliza, Harriet Edwin, William Robert Bell, Margaret Cameron, James, Edith Alice, Albert Victor Darling, and Mabel Gray Sands.

Charles TR Sands and Mary R Sands had two daughters: Nellie Rokas Sands and Tyldesley L Sands.

He also had a daughter, born 1882, with Mrs. Eva Bethel, wife of Thomas G N Bethel, at Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera.

Mr. Sands was an elder of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Nassau, and his name appeared in an 1875 Act to regulate management and maintenance of "The Kirk." He was also a Member of Parliament and his name appeared in the annual Colonial Office Lists.

Charles TR was a grower/shipper/merchant of fruit, especially pineapples, and owned a factory on Eleuthera to preserve it. (The tin cans and wooden cases used by these plants were manufactured in Baltimore.) His ships carried fruit to eastern cities of the US.

Charles Tyldesley Rhodes Sands passed away in 1905 in Baltimore, Maryland at 72 years of age.

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Sources

Christ Church Nassau, Bahamas Birth and Baptism Records, 1832, Sands.

Bahama Herald, Nassau, Bahamas, 29 September 1855, page 120, compiled by Sharyn Thompson.

Act No 19 of 1875. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PROPERTY. An Act for regulating the management by the minister and elders of the Presbyterian Church of St. Andrew, in the city of Nassau, of certain trust properties for the said church, and for other purposes.

See Colonial Office List 1886, page 21.

Hawaiian Planter Monthly, Vol 11, page 568.

1900 United States Federal Census for C T Sands, Maryland, Baltimore City, (Independent City), Baltimore, Ward 15, District 0189.

New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 for C Tyldesley Sands, Roll T715, 1897-1957, 0001-1000, Roll 0522, 1904.

Obituary published in Baltimore American, 20 February 1905.

Acknowledgments

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