Edward Fitzgerald Trevor (abt. 1863 - 1939)

Born about 1863 in Dublin, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Laura Atkinson (Huggup) Trevor — married 18 Sep 1903 in Parish Church of St George's Newcastle, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

Husband of Dorothy Agnes (Valentine) Trevor — married 14 Oct 1915 in St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland

Descendants

Died 4 Feb 1939 at about age 76 in Highfield, Cannock Road, West Croft, England

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Biography

Edward Fitzgerald Trevor is the mystery man and brick wall of my family tree, so contributions and additional source material is always welcome.

Edward Fitzgerald Trevor was born in Dublin in 1863.^[1] On his marriage certificate, and in his obituary the claim is made that he was the son of Major General John Salusbury Trevor CSI and his wife Mary Trevor.

The available evidence has John Salusbury Trevor working in India in 1863 and returning to the UK in 1864. At this point at some stage he becomes a Director of the South of England Oyster Company, in South Hayling, whose Managing Director was George Hart. Esq. (This becomes relevant later)

After 15 years of research I still have not located any details about Mary Trevor nee (we theorise) Fitzgerald. There is no record of John Salusbury Trevor marrying prior to his marriage in 1871 to Elizabeth Dawson. On that marriage certificate he is declared a bachelor not a widow. There is an index of baptism searches kept in the Irish Archives that I have not yet been able to access, but may be the output of an earlier genealogists attempt to locate birth and baptism records for Edward. http://www.nationalarchives.ie/pdf/smallprivateaccessions.pdf Small Private Accessions 1972–1997 999/1–999/850 999/565 EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS Baptism searches 20 1862–1863 Edward F. Trevor Dublin

What we do know is that in 1871 young Edward, scholar, was residing in a hotel in Brighton with his father. There is no mother present.

We know that he was sent to Hurstpierpoint School as a boarder in 1874, a few months after John Salusbury Trevor married Elizabeth Dawson.

Edward studied medicine at University College Hospital London from 1881 to 1885, and became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1886.

He then moved to Nottinghamshire to practice as a GP. It appears he might have married around this time, though I have discovered no record of the wedding. The likely candidate is a daughter of George Hart, Esq, Florence Mabel Unwin Hart who was born in 1856 and then vanishes in records after the 1871 census.

This is summised from the two following, inconsistent and contradictory pieces of information from the 1891 and 1901 censuses.

At the time of the 1891 census Edward is 29 years old and listed as SINGLE and the head of the household at Overbank House, Upper Broughton, residing with Etty Hart - stated to be his mother (aged 53), and daughters Gertrude Hart (single aged 26), Rowena (single aged 21), and grand daughter Dorothy Powell aged 3, and grandson Jack Powell aged 5. Although listed as head of the household, all the relationships are framed in terms of Etty being head of the household.

The 1901 census shows Edward living on Willoughby Road in Upper Broughton. He is listed as 38 years old and SINGLE, residing with his MOTHER-IN-LAW, Sarah Ann Hart (aged 63), and sister in law Rowena Hart (aged 30) and nephew Herman T F Powell aged 13.

The 1871 census shows that George Hart and Sarah Ann Hart had 4 daughters. Sarah Katherine who married Douglas Ffolliott Powell, Rowena Maud who remained single, Gertrude Isabel who also remained single and Florence Mabel who disappears from records after 1871, and for who there is no record of marriage or death.

The mystery deepens when leveraging all that information against the fact that Edward's father died in 1889, and there is no mention of Edward at all in the will. John Salusbury Trevor left money and the bulk of his estate to his wife for the remainder of her lifetime (or until she remarried) with bequests to various other family members - but nothing to Edward.

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS4P-TPX : 21 May 2019), Edward F Trevor, Upper Broughton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Waltham subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.