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Lamb, Francis

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  • b. 4 Jan 1804

Francis Lamb, second son of Sarah Duke and Francis Lamb, was born 4 January 1804. He married Catherine 'Harford' of Bandon on 30 Dec 1827. They had five children: Mary Eliza, Mary (16 Aug 1835 - 20 Aug 1835), Joseph (b. 5 Dec 1832), Sarah (b. 16 Sep 1830), and William (19 Nov 1828 - 1899).

Gamble, George Francis, Major

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  • 21 Jun 1837 - 22 Feb 1912

George Francis Gamble was born 21 June 1837. He married Florence Gamble. From 1854-72 he served in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He left the Marines at the rank of Major, and went on to write several manuals on military commands and exercises. In 1884, his daughter, Cléonice Gamble was born. After his military career, Major George Francis Gamble worked as the registrar and secretary of Mount Jerome Cemetery for forty years. Major George Francis Gamble died 22 Feb 1912. One of his grandsons attended the funeral of George Bernard Shaw in 1950.

Lamb, Alice Ann

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Alice Ann Kerr married William Lamb LLD in 1873. She had two children, the first died in infancy, and the second, Francis William John Alexander Lamb was born 8 June 1874.

Kerr, William Pattison, Doctor

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  • c. 1824 - 31 Oct 1893

William Pattison Kerr, son of John Kerr, was born around the year 1824 in Donegal, Ireland. He married Anne Banks (1829-1887) and they had at least two children: Alice Ann Kerr (1844-1884) and Elias William Kerr (1850-1920). On 11 March 1887, his wife Anne Kerr died. Doctor William Pattison Kerr married a second time a year later, on 29 May 1888, to Miss Julia Kate Reed (1854-1940). They had two sons, William Pattison Reed Kerr (1889-1967) and Edwin Pattison Kerr (b. 1892). Doctor William Pattison Kerr died on 31 October 1893 in Sydling, Dorset, England.

Bell, David Charles

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  • 4 May 1817 - 28 Oct 1902

David Charles Bell, son of Alexander Bell (1790-1865) and Elizabeth Colville (d. 1856), was born in Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland on 4 May 1817. He married Ellen Adine Hyland on 19 October 1840 in Perth, Scotland. They had eleven children: Alexander Bell (1841-1843); Robert Bell (1842-1849); Esther Alicia Bell (1844-1850); Laura Jane Bell (1853-1949); Lewis Knox Bell (1857-1909); Charles James Bell (1858-1929); Sophie Bell; William Bell; Aileen Bell; Elizabeth Bell; and Chichester Bell. David Charles Bell became a Professor of Englsih Literature and Elocution at Dublin University in Ireland where he taught George Bernard Shaw. In [date] he followed his brother Melville Bell and immigrated to Brantford, Ontario, Canada, with his wife Ellen and four of their children.

On 3 August 1876, Professor Charles Bell paticipated in the first successful test of his nephew Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. From the Brantford telegraph office, he receited lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet to his nephew, who was waiting at the A Wallis Ellis store in the neighbouring town of Mount Pleasant, Ontario, Canada. Alexander Graham Bell was able to hear his uncle's voice emanating from his receiver housed in a metal box. Thus, David Charles Bell was the first voice to be heard over a telephone. In 1880, David Charles Bell and his family immigrated a second time, from Ontario to the United States. David Charles Bell died on 28 October 1902 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. He was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, District of Columbia.

Kerr, Arthur Francis George, Doctor

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  • 27 Feb 1877 - 22 Jan 1942

Arthur Francis George Kerr, son of Doctor Elias William Kerr (c. 1850-1920) and Fanny Brady (1851-1886), was born 27 February 1877 in Kinlough, County Leitrim, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin and recieved his doctorate in medicine in 1908. Having learned much about botany during his time at university, he developed a keen interest in the botany of Thailand, which became a lifelong passion. He was so successful in the field of botany that multiple plant species are named after him, including Dipterocarpus kerrii, Kerriodoxa elegans, Loranthus kerrii, Nepenthes kerrii, Platanus kerrii, Rafflesia kerrii and the genus Afgekia which is an abbreviation of his names. Doctor Arthur Francis George Kerr died at the Street House in Hayes, Bromley, Kent, on 22 January 1942.

Lamb, Mary Elizabeth

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  • 1838 - 1909

Mary Elizabeth Lamb, daughter of Francis Lamb (1805-1868) and Catherine Horford (d. 1947), was born in March of 1838. After the death of her father, she lived with her brother William Lamb (1828-1899). Mary Elizabeth Lamb died on 25 January 1909 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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