Cecil Lydall

Cecil Wykeham was the second son of Wykeham Hawthorne Lydall and his wife Sarah Eleanora nee Franck (also 'French'). Wykeham Hawthorne Lydell was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in about 1838, the son of John Dodd Lydell. He was a physician surgeon (MRCS 1862 St Mary's). Sarah Eleanora French (sic) was born on 12 May 1847 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, the daughter of John Tracy William French (also Franck) and Margaret Eccles. Sarah was baptised on 26 November in Campbeltown. Wykeham Lydall and Sarah Franck (sic) were married at St Stephen, Paddington, Westminster, on 11 May 1870. They had eight children of whom only six survived: Wykeham Tracy b. 9 September 1871 (bap. St Pancras, 25 October 1871), Cecil Wykeham b. 9 January 1873 (bap. St Pancras, 1 May 1873), Rose Eleanor b. December 1875 (bap. Regent Square Camden, 23 February 1876), Edward Wykeham b. June 1877, bap. Regent Square Camden, 17 July 1877), Alice Maud Wykeham b. 15 November 1878 (bap. Regent Square Camden, 6 January 1879) and Ernest Wykeham b. 1882 (O/N/D Pancras, bap. Regent Square Camden, 3 December 1882). In 1881 Wykeham Lydall (42) and his wife Sarah (33) were living at 19 Mecklenburgh Square, London, with their five children, Wykeham (9), Cecil (8), Rose (5), Edward (3) and Alice (2). Wykeham employed four servants, a cook, housemaid, nurse and nursemaid. The couple's sixth child, Ernest, was born the following year in October 1882. Wykeham Hawthorne Lydall died in 1884 (J/A/S St Thomas Devonshire) aged 46. In 1891 his widow Sarah was living in Clifton Bristol with four of her children, Wykeham (19) medical student, Rose (15), Edward (13) and Ernest (8). Sarah employed a general domestic servant. Sarah had returned to London by 1901 when she was living in Fulham with her children Rose (25), Edward (23) a secretary, and Ernest (18) a clerk. In 1901 Cecil (28) was an assistant school master. He was a boarder at 11 Whitehall Road, Woodford, Walthamstow, Essex, in the household of the widowed Matilda Hurrell (40), a seamstress working from home, and her young son, Richard (6). By 1911 his mother, Sarah, was living at 6 Shaftesbury Road, Southsea, Hampshire. Her unmarried daughter, Rose (35) was still living with her. Sarah employed one general domestic servant. At the time of the census her second daughter, Alice, was a hospital nurse and probably living and working at a hospital in Holborn, London, while her son Wykeham was married and living in Wellingborough with his wife's family. Cecil had joined the Royal Navy as a chaplain in 1906 and was serving in HMS Swiftsure in the Mediterranean. Cecil became engaged to Grace Cecilia Clarke in 1914. Grace was the daughter of William Froggatt Clarke, a timber merchant and saw mill owner, and his wife Elise, of Newcastle House, Park Terrace, Nottingham. William and Elise had two daughters, Grace b. 1888 (J/F/M Nottingham) and Mary. Cecil and Grace were to have been married on 5 June 1916. Grace probably married Albert C Hill in 1919 (J/A/S Nottingham). Of Cecil's family: His mother Sarah Eleanor later lived in South Africa; there is a record of an address of 'Haslemere', Hatfield Street, Cape Town, South Africa. There is a passenger ship record that she returned to, or visited, England in 1919 (SS Walmer Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company, from Cape Town, arriving Southampton on 10 June 1919). Sarah's death has not been traced in UK records. Wykeham Tracy qualified as a medical doctor and married Gertrude Watkin at Wellingborough All Hallows, Northamptonshire, in 1899 (A/M/J Wellingborough). In 1911 Wykeham and Gertrude with their daughter, Ella Winifred (5), were living at 72 Park Road, Wellingborough, with Gertrude's parents, Charles Watkin, a retired leather manufacturer, and his wife Elizabeth. Wykeham and Gertrude had had four children of whom only three survived. He died on 20 August 1981; his home was then at Briars Hey, Stechford, Birmingham; his wife Gertrude survived him. Rosa Eleanor never married and probably died in South Africa in 1975. She was executor of Cecil's Will in 1916 but had an appointed attorney suggesting that it was not viable for her to carry out this duty; it is possible, therefore, that she had already moved to South Africa (probably with her mother) by this date. Edward Wykeham has not been traced after 1901. Alice Maud Wykeham trained as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital, London (registration number 7492), and there is a record that she was living in Nottingham at 50 Mansfield Road between at least 1919 and 1921. Ernest Wykeham married Louisa Annie Cook in 1916 (O/N/D Nottingham) and died on 16 July 1938. He was living at the Hollows, Kimberley, Nottingham. His wife Louisa survived him.

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