I decided to try doing avatars for my other ancestors, despite a lack of photos, which can make for rough results, so I did this for my great grandfather D'Auvergne Bane, and yes, as expected, the results bore little of worth, but those that worked out were really cool, and when I shared them on social media were much liked. D'Auvergne was a gentlemanly artistic soul, whose family lived for a while in Barbados, though he was born in London.
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![]() Genealogy, yes, I find a little other thing I'd not noticed before, the elusive 1871 census for my Bane's, still being in the army where they called themselves Bean's, there in the Shorncliffe army camp, there where is the terminus of the Channel Tunnel. I'd seen Hannah Bane and her daughter Alma there, and it was now in looking at a page or so back, that I saw, was also her husband Richard, the confusion being that he'd called himself Robert Bean. But, yes, it was him. Robert Bean, bombadier, born in Walsham. While he liked to confuse while he was in the army I don't know. Robert Bean was actually the name of Hannah's father, who though once a humble agricultural labourer, had found a good home in his later years at the Great Lodge in Castle Hedingham, his daughter Mary Ann having married into the family there. This would have been a good place for visits from Bane's, Bean's, and their children. AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees. ![]() Updating my genealogy, I became most captivated by what I found. One of my relatives, a Bean cousin of great grandfather D'Auvergne Bane, was on the Titanic when it so famously crashed into an iceberg on it's way to America. Edward Beane, he is my first cousin thrice removed. He was on his honeymoon voyage with his sweetheart Ethel, they having just married in Norwich. They now become my Jack and Rose, but with a better ending, for remarkably they both survived, and were the only ones out of 12 honeymooning couples not to have been separated for ever by the tragedy. Women and children first, that was the noble British way, with the men kept back at gun point. Ethel was put into a lifeboat, which though only half full was set away in the sea, and Edward on noting this, took his chances, jumping into the freezing waters and swimming in the darkness, it being midnight, until he could be with her. One recount says he got to her boat and she lifted him in with her own arms. Another version is that a different rowboat picked him up and not until arrival in New York did each know the other had survived. Safe on the boat, united, if this is indeed how it was, they distantly saw the final plunging downwards of the great ship, hearing not only that band still playing, but the mass wail of the remaining stranded people in the moment of their perishing, a haunting sound Ethel could not free her mind of for many years. Edward was of the family of D'Auvergne's mother, Hannah Bean, being one of her nephews. It is also in looking more at Hannah's parents, Robert and Mary Ann Beane, that I discover what is the connection to Castle Hedingham, made mention of once by my granny Isabelle. For all my fanciful contemplations of was D'Auvergne a love child, was he really descended from the D'Auvergne family, this less and less seems a possibility, even though I had noted that there was a D'Auvergne- Barnard family link to this area. Well, actually, as I now discovered, Robert Beane spent his last years in Castle Hedingham at the Great Lodge Farm, one of his daughters, Mary Ann, having married the farmer there. When his daughter and then her husband eventually died, both having left wills, and not having had any children to inherit from them, D'Auvergne and other family members may have from past assurances reckoned they were in for some of that inheritance, which would explain why D'Auvergne had to go to Castle Hedingham when Isabelle was a young girl. And his upset on returning, would be that regardless of their great wealth, he had not been left anything. It's a less fanciable story, but it would make sense. It was another Beane who inherited greatly from them, a George who worked on the railways. But not our D'Auvergne. And Robert Beane's wife, Mary Ann, who long back I had thought to be a Bird, was actually an Empson. And it was Mary Ann's sister, or was it her aunt, can't recall which, who had married the composer D'Auvergne Barnard's father. So there is a certain link now. 'An aunt' as granny Isabelle had always said, only she'd thought the aunt had married the composer rather than his father. This does after all then make me related by blood to the composer. And so I frequently brush up on my genealogy and sometimes discover the new and interesting. Much of the following day I did my research, particularly being interested in the Titanic story. My friend, Ian, who came over to visit, and who believes in conspiracy theories, told me the Titanic sinking was contrived by the Jewish Rockefeller's, as he would say indeed. Looking more at the Titanic story, at videos of those who survived and those who did not, I got weepy about it all. One lady could have survived, but would not, because she was not allowed to take her dog with her, and she refused to be separated from him. AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees. |
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