Henry Geoffrey Spring (1881 - 1901)

Born 1881 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Ancestors

Died 29 May 1901 at about age 20 in Vlakfontein, South Africa

Biography

Henry Geoffrey Spring was born on 5 December 1880 in Calcutta, India, the son of Constance Paynter and Henry Coleridge Spring.^[1][2][3][4]

He was christened on 1 January 1881 in Kidderpore, Bengal.^[1]

At the time of the 1891 England Census, Henry was 10-years-old, living with his aunt Emma Spring in Tiverton, Devon, England.^[3]

Henry died on 29 May 1901 at Vlakfontein, South Africa, killed in action.^{[2][4][5][6][7]}

Research notes

There is a picture of Geoffrey online at http://archive.is/DfmxZ.^[6]

1891 Census: Tiverton, Devonshire, England^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG7N-W2B : 10 February 2018), Henry Geoffrey Spring, 01 Jan 1881; citing Kidderpore, Bengal, India, reference v 175 p 34; index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 510,865.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Lundy, Daryl (compiler). "Henry Geoffrey Spring." The Peerage. Retrieved by Clare Spring on 25 February 2018 from http://www.thepeerage.com/p63412.htm#i634113.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WCHM-62M : 10 December 2017), Henry G Spring in household of Emma S Spring, Tiverton, Devon, England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Devon county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} " DEVON'S 2ND BOER WAR ROLL OF HONOUR 1899 - 1902, S-V." Devon Heritage. Retrieved 26 February 2018 by Clare Spring from http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/DevonReg/BoerWarRollofHonourStoV.htm. Archived 26 January 2017 at https://web.archive.org/web/20170126042032/http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/DevonReg/BoerWarRollofHonourStoV.htm.
5. ↑ "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-CKHK : 23 December 2017), Trevor C Spring, 1926.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} "Officers died: South Africa 1899 -1902." Retrieved 2 May 2018 by Clare Spring from http://archive.is/DfmxZ.
7. ↑ "Memorial: Lt H G Spring and 2LT H P Spring." Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2019 by Clare Spring from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/45882.