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Old 06-02-2014, 01:31 PM
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Here's the Merivale grave in the west cemetery today.

Merivale was a mining engineer resident one time at Togston Hall. We've mentioned the family a few times!

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Old 06-02-2014, 01:49 PM
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In Memory of
John Herman Merivale
J.P. M.A. M.I.M.E.
Born 19th May 1851. Died 18th Nov 1916
also of his wife
Blanche
Born 9th September 1854. Died 7th July 1919
also of their 5th and 7th Sons
who fell in the Great War,
John William
Capt 7th Northd Fus T.F.
Born 6th June 1887
Fell in Action 15th Sept 1916
Near Bois de Fourreau (High Wood)
he lies in the Cemetery at
Bazentin le Petit.
Francis
Lieut 7th Northd Fus T.F.
Born 7th July 1895
Died in France 18th Nov 1918
He lies in the No. 5 Cemetery Rouen.
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Old 06-02-2014, 01:49 PM
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Some of those dates are tricky with the missing lead letters.
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The headstone certainly provides a lot of information. I'm impressed you managed to find it.
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Old 06-02-2014, 02:42 PM
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It's not a difficult one to find Janwhin, it's on the immediate left heading west on the tarmac footpath through the older part - the path with the large shrubs dotted along parallel to it.

I did not realise they had 7 sons. I wonder if 7 was the total number of children?
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It seems it was all sons, of whom two died in infancy. Surviving five were Charles Herman, Bernard, John William, Vernon and Francis.

Their grandfather, Charles Merivale was Dean of Ely.
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Their grandfather, Charles Merivale was Dean of Ely.

He has a Wikipedia page:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Merivale





"His principal work was A History of the Romans under the Empire, in eight volumes, which came out between 1850 and 1862." will add that to my Christmas reading list.
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Old 07-02-2014, 09:16 AM
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Their Great Grandfather was a pal of Lord Byron.
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Our John Herman Merivale was the author of a text book for mining students:

https://archive.org/stream/notesandf...ge/n5/mode/2up
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Old 07-02-2014, 10:18 AM
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I see Wikipedia is waiting on someone to get started on a page for our man, who was, apparently, the first English professor of mining.


So...we have the first English professor of mining in our west cemetery. Now there's a thing.
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I have some of the bound volumes of the Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, my first volume starts at 1917. I thought we would get lucky and have a biography / portrait, but it appears such an article was in the 1916 volume. I know this because I have the index volume for 1911 to 1918 and the reference to the 1916 volume is in there.

Our bad luck continues!

we do know where it is now though; Volume LIV 1916

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So who was Judith Merivale
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Just thought I'd add this advert for a bit of mining flavour. (c1909)


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Old 07-02-2014, 12:23 PM
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So who was Judith Merivale
It seems she was John Herman's unmarried sister. She and another sister, unmarried, Mary Sophia, were living together in Oxford in 1911. I would imagine they may have been "blue stockings"
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Bluestockings and seriously upper crust. The boys probably archetypal public schoolboy officers.
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I see the Durham Mining Museum has a bit on John H and his son Charles H under who's who.
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There are several public family trees on Ancestry relating to the Merivale family with a number of photographs. The photos seem to originate from a BruceLiddell tree which has Blanche (John H's wife) as a sibling of the tree's direct ancestors. As these photos are all public I attach a selection.
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File Type: jpg John H Merivale & Family.jpg (59.8 KB, 20 views)
File Type: jpg John William Merivale.jpg (22.0 KB, 14 views)
File Type: jpg Bernard Merivale.jpg (26.9 KB, 14 views)
File Type: jpg Vernon Merivale.jpg (22.2 KB, 15 views)
File Type: jpg Francis Merivale.jpg (20.6 KB, 13 views)
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Old 07-02-2014, 07:14 PM
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Excellent.

I wonder if that group photo is Togston Hall?

Francis is very young looking - Hard to believe they did what was asked of them - Take a load of Broomhill and Amble miners "over the top"!


We did find the citation for Vernon's first award for the MC; now where did I put that?
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The youngest, Frank was born there and he looks about 1? on the photograph, so I would guess it is Togston Hall.
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Excellent.

We did find the citation for Vernon's first award for the MC; now where did I put that?
Try looking under Medal Winners
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