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Children of Dr. George Gwinnett snr, 1786=Selina CARPENTER
1.Sarah BOMPASS, b7 Feb 1787 Broadmead Baptist Bristol, d 23 Dec 1809 bur
1810
2. George Gwinnett BOMPAS(S) Jnr, b 6 Jun 1789 Broadmead Baptist Bristol, Dr
and Superintendant of Fishponds Lunatic Asylum (the eldest of the
adopted family, who assisted Joseph Mason COX
for many years, took over August 1818
following Mason COX's death on 11 July 1818 ),
(largest asylum outside London), d night of 26 Feb1847 bur in the burial ground of Downend Baptist Church. (WILL).
George jnr qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (?FRCS) of London
in 1809, but did not join the asylum until December 1810. His MD degree was granted by the University of Leyden in June 1817
(thesis De Insania). Dr John Mason Cox had succeeded his grandfather in the
management of Fishponds Asylum, and, after his death, it was taken over by
GGBJnr.
On 1 January
1844: the Asylum had 49 patients. 1
pauper and 48 private. CHB noted that GGBjnr shared some of his father's
characteristics, i.e. often short of money not as a result of frittering it
away, but because he did not often submit his account even though he had a
busy practice. On one occasion he was unable to pay his coachman, 'who
thereupon sued him; cheerfully drove him down to court in his stylish
carriage and took him home again when the affair had been amicably
settled.'
He had 15 children between 1812 and 1839,
many of whom died young, 3 of whom
achieved medical qualifications. His obituary notice in London and
Provincial Medical Directory for 1848 stated that he "possessed of
considerable scientific attainments, especially in his own branch of the
profession - the relief of mental disease. He was of mild and amiable
deportment, a model of the Christian gentleman, and all his actions were
influenced by a feeling of deep responsibility..". His management
appears to have been unremarkable and he did not acknowledge developments
which recommended non-restraint for patients.
11 Nov 1811 St James's Church, Bristol=Frances Henrietta SMITH, born 1792
Batheaston ref x1/5, died 27 April 1863, reg B1863 Clifton, daughter of Joseph SMITH, Bristol
barrister
Family in Fishponds; Upper Park St, Clifton in 1856; Walton Villa,
Wellington Park, Clifton; 15 Stanley Gardens, Kensington; 8 Clifton Park,
Rd, Bristol; Battersea
3.Charles Carpenter BOMPAS(S), b15 Feb 1791 Broad Mead Baptist Bristol GLS b
23 June 1791, 29 February 1844)
As a young man in 1817, he published a book “On the nature of heat, light
and electricity”, the name on the title page being still spelt Bompass. Charles Carpenter BOMPAS was called to bar at Inner Temple 1815; Serjeant-at-Law 1827, leader of the
Western Circuit, Dissenting Deputy, d 29 February 1844 , reg A1844
Marylebone,
19 Dec 1822 Broughton HANTS= Mary Steele TOMKINS d 1861, daughter of Joseph
TOMKINS of Broughton Hants
9 Kings Bench Walk, London; Park Road, Regents Park, MDX and had
eight children by her.
*Below, quoted excerpts from their daughter Selina Anne's memoirs The Story of the Steeles of Broughton
'The first school to which our father went
(with, I think, our Uncle Joe) was but a rough one, for I have heard him
speak of the school-mistress coming out from her blazing fire, fat and
flourishing and rubbing her hands and saying, "I do not feel it cold", while
he and his school-fellows were miserably shivering outside. He
afterwards went with his brothers to the school at Tottenham kept by Mr.
Wood and Dr. Thorowgood, at that time and for some time afterwards one of
the principal Non-conformist schools.'*
They married 'after a long engagement and a
still longer attachment on our father's part. Our grandfather would
not give his consent to the marriage till our father had acquired a
specified sum such as he considered adequate for their comfort.' *
According to his daughter, Charles was ' a very sanguine, ardent disposition
and apt to hope more than was possible. During the long years of
suspense when he was not allowed to visit the house, he used sometimes to
come to Broughton and watch outside in the evening to see her through the
window, and they would only hear, ........that he had been for a night at
the inn.'*
On the day of Charles's marriage, he 'felt
more than rewarded...for all his pains and patience, and they walked across
the meadow path, decked in bridal snow, between the Broughton "Pigeon House"
and the church....... He was 30; she was 29. ...Our father took his
bride to their first home at Frenchay near Bristol.'*
'Our father was then a barrister in practice
at Bristol having left the merchant's office of Mr Bruce as he thought a
professional career would be more pleasing to Mamma.'
'He was seldom at home in the evening and
often had not time in the morning, as he had to hurry down to Court
generally immediately after breakfast, by 9.30 in term time, I think, but
rather later during Sittings. As he always sat up till 12 at the
earliest to make sure that no brief would come, and generally did not leave
Chambers till that time, he was naturally not up very early...'*
A barrister and sergeant-at-law, it is thought that he was the inspiration for Charles Dickens's Serjeant Buzfuz in
Pickwick Papers. (23 June 1827 Inner Temple: ref C202/216/23 National
Archives)
'he was 5ft 10ins, and with higher, broader
forehead, a thoughtful yet most beaming happy face, full of benevolence.
He had blue eyes and red hair, but we can only remember it as grey and
sandy, his wig, so much worn, having turned it early, thin at the top of his
head but curly round.'*
'Mamma was equally thin with beautiful
black hair, getting rather grey latterly, and hazel eyes (green-grey like
Grandmamma's) not brown chestnut, a thin narrow face, a beautiful
profile.'......................'Her nose, slightly aquiline, had been broken
by a fall when a child..............I suppose it was Lord Truro (as T.
Wilde) who, as uncle George tells, compared her to one of the light Alpine
bridges which vibrate if an antelope springs over them, but will not break
if an army marches across.'*
They lived at North Bank near Park Road for a year, then to
11 Park Road until Christmas 1859 when they moved to 6 College Crescent.
At his death, Lord Truro, Lord Chief Justice
commented that he thought CC's intellect was the quickest in Westminster
Hall. Since he was a professed Baptist, this would have prevented him
from being appointed a Judgeship. Initially, he practised in Bristol,
moving to London in about 1827. Also, in 1817, he published a book in
the name of BOMPASS entitled On the Nature of Heat, Light and
Electricity. When he died, he left 8 living children and his wife
only had £300 pa, and so members of the Western Circuit repaid his former
generosity by raising £800 to help educate his children.
4. Joseph Cox BOMPOSS, later Joseph Cox COX, Physician of Park St Bristol, b
2 Jun 1793 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol, GLS, d 28 Aug1851, bur in St Mary's
church, Fishponds, precincts.
Tradition has it that Joseph Cox substituted the second COX for BOMPAS to
inherit estate from Dr. Joseph Mason COX. Studied Leyden University > 1837
MD (thesis on pulmonary embolism) He worked in Ryde, Isle of Wight, then
because of his asthma and the past deaths of his children from croup and
scarlet fever, he decided to move his family to a more sympathetic climate,
at Castelmare near Naples, returning to take over Fishponds
Asylum, which he ran for a short time until his death.
=Charlotte SKEY b1788 d 1851
elsewhere 1798 - 1865
There is a memorial window in Fishponds church dedicated to Joseph and to his wife
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Children: Dr George Gwinnett BOMPASS jnr b6 June 1789, d1847, 1811=Frances Henrietta SMITH
1.George Joseph BOMPAS, b 6 Sep 1812 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol./Stapleton, ref
x2/5; MD and Schoolmaster in Fishponds House, d 23 Jun 1889.
Family: Fishponds; Upper Park St, Clifton in 1856 when school moved from
Upper Fishponds
1832-6 studied at Edinburgh University> MD (thesis on 'Unsoundness of Mind
and its Relations to Jurisprudence') Before taking up medicine, GJB spent 2
years with a publisher.
reg C1839 ROMSEY, 7 Aug 1839=Marianne BEDDOME b 17 Jun 1815 Romsey HANTS
ref x 2/5; 8C d 24 Dec 1912 Quebec, daughter of John Reynolds BEDDOME b12
Mar 1787 d 26 Dec 1859=Rebecca WINTER bc1793 d10 Jun 1821.
7th May 1841: 15 members of Foster Baptist Chapel, Downend told
their pastor, Rev. J. Mitchell, they had "associated themselves as a
separate body of worshippers". Four of the body were three brothers and a sister,
members of a local well-known and influential family named Bompas, of Fishponds.
The elder brother, Dr. George Gwinnett Bompas, lived in a large house on the
site of Victoria Park, Manor Road and infants school.
After gaining experience elsewhere, George Joseph BOMPAS worked at Fishponds
as a doctor.
The house
was an asylum, managed from 1818 to 1847 by Dr. G.
G. Bompas. and in 1860 it became a private school for boys aged 8 to 11. By 13 January 1844:
George Joseph Bompas had given up practising medicine and opened a school
for boys at Upper Fishponds called Beechwood House.1855: he moved his school
to Clifton. 1856: he moved it to Redland. 1859: he was declared bankrupt.
It is believed this news item may refer to him,
Ellenborough School was run by George
Thomas BOMPAS who had been at Fishponds House in 1847. "In 1857 he was in Ellenborough Buildings in Redland and was facing bankruptcy proceedings. He
had £1859 debts among them the sum of £5 18/- wages owing to Fanny SHORLAND,
his servant. He stated that his insolvency had been brought about by
overwhelming misfortune and he had struggled against a long course of
disasters. The magistrate agreed that Mr Bompas did not seem to have been
extravagant in his expenditure."
Around 1860/1: he emigrated with his wife and twelve
children to Quebec, Canada. 1881: Appears as artist in 1881 Sherbrooke,
Quebec. 23 June 1889: GJB died in Canada. At his death, his wife renounced
her right to her late husband's administration.
Children of
George Joseph BOMPAS b1812=Marianne BEDDOME;
their sons went to South Africa with their sisters
i. Edward Gwinnett Gwinnett BOMPAS was Mayor of Nairobi in King George V's Jubilee Year.
ii. Frederick
William
iii. Selina
iv. Sophia.
2. Frances Maria BOMPASS b21 Oct 1813 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol, GLS
died 28 September 1833.
3. Selina Jane BOMPASS, b7 Feb 1815 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol, d 21
November 1831 at WITT
Household 22 Prince's Lane, Westminster
4. Mason Cox BOMPAS b? 1815, bap4 Oct 1816 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol / Stapleton, GLS.
He married in 1835 but died three years later without issue.
5.Charles Smith BOMPAS, b13 Jul 1818 Stapleton, surgeon, d 3 Nov1886
Busselton, Australia, from nephritis.
1836 admitted to medical school >MRCS and LSA, London 1841. He was
medically qualified at Bristol, worked at Fishponds. House surgeon to
Bristol General Hospital. After change in Asylum management, he moved to
Manchester and 1853 was the District Medical Officer and vaccinator to
Manchester. Between 1853-1865 he moved 6 times. He married 23 June 1862= Betty (Elizabeth) KENYON, widow, bc1826-36 Accrington ref 2/7;
housekeeper ref 8
9 Beech St, Cheetham;180 Rydal Mount, Cheetham, LAN. They had one
daughter Frances Henrietta, who married Rev. F.A.M. Parker in 1890. After his daughter's birth
in 1863, he moved to western Australia (about 1865) to become the
Resident Medical Officer at Camden Harbour, leaving family behind. From 1869 he
held various government appointment, such as Medical Officer of Greenough
and Dongara; house surgeon at Perth. In 1866, as he was anxious
to make a collection of specimens of natural history, he accompanied T.
Hooley on part of his expedition up the Murchison River
to find a practicable route for driving stock to the North District of
Western Australia. A range of low mountains near Geraldton, at the top of
the sharp bend in the Murchison River, long. 115 degrees 19 minutes, was
named BOMPAS Hills by T. Hooley in 1866 to commemorate his friendship with
Charles BOMPAS. There is also Bumpus island a few miles north of Camden Harbour.
Charles was not very co-operative with the Governor of
North Western Australia and objected to submitting monthly returns e.g. the
disposition of “Medical comforts” being consumed by other than the patients.
He then held various medical posts:
1869: District Medical Officer, Greenhough Flats
1872: Colonial Hospital, Perth
1873: Medical Officer, York
1875: Resident Medical Officer and Vaccinator, Vasse. He retired on pension
in 1886 and died of nephritis at Busselton, Western Australia.
6.Sarah BOMPAS b28 elsewhere 29 Oct 1819 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol / Fishponds / Stapleton, GLS
ref1/7;3/7;12/8; x1/5, died 4 September 1883.
15 Stanley Gardens, Kensington; Walton Villa, Wellington Park, Clifton;
Unmarried 1881, lodger with sister Sophia Cox BOMPAS at DYKES household, 5 Glentworth Terrace, Weston-super-Mare
7.Maria Grace BOMPAS b 23 Apr 1821 elsewhere born 28
April 1821 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol/Stapleton, GLS,
died 1857
16 May 1843=Edward KELLER, gentleman of St Louis, Illinois, USA
8. Joseph Carpenter BOMPAS MD, b24 Jan 1823 Broad Mead Baptist,
Bristol/Stapleton, GLS ref 53/1, 4th son
assistant Colonial Surgeon; Resident Surgeon of Adelaide Asylum and
Hospital, resigned 1855 (ill health) d 29 Sep 1855 on board the "Harlequin"
on voyage to Swansea.
Joseph was a student at University College, London, 1841-6. He achieved a 1st class
BA Honours in medicine and physiology in 1845; BM (Medicine and physiology) 1846; appointed physician's
clerk and went on to become assistant at University College Hospital. MRCS 1849.
At 24, when father died, he took over the management of Fishponds at
his relatives’ request and further passed the examination of membership of
the Royal College of Surgeons in 1849. Unhappily Dr. Joseph Carpenter Bompas’
reign at Fishponds was disastrous, and the Gloucestershire magistrates
ordered an enquiry into the management of the Asylum in 1848. When the
results of the Gloucester JPs Inquiry (ordered by the last Court of Quarter
Sessions to be printed, and sent to every acting magistrate in the County of
Gloucester) were reported in 1849 (mainly receiving patients without
certificates; harsh and neglectful treatment of the
patients; it was
said of him that he gave 'a lame defence made by a person labouring under
nervousness.') he withdrew his application of the renewal of his
licence. Other members of the
family, including Dr J.C. Cox "late of Naples" who died in 1851.1852:
Fishponds taken over by Dr J.D.F. Parsons, previously proprietor of White
Hall House, near Bristol and it was closed in 1859.
He married
Ruth Conquest Bompas (born about 1823), who was head of a school in
Middlesex in 1881.
28 September 1847 Romsey, reg C1847 Romsey= Fanny (Frances Henrietta)
BEDDOME (his sister-in-law's sister) bc 1819 d 16 Sep 1852 Adelaide daughter of Dr. John Reynolds BEDDOME,
(grandson of Rev Benjamin BEDDOME of Bourton on the Water), a highly
respected doctor who counted Lord Palmerston and Florence Nightingale
amongst his patients. They had four children. They lived at
50 Albany Road, Camberwell 1851.
6 May 1852 he emigrated to Adelaide, Australia on the “Caroline Agnes”. He
was appointed the house surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital and resident
medical officer at the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum where he held office until
1855. He experienced a double tragedy in the death of his son Herbert
Gregory on 30 August 1852 and that of his wife on 16 September 1852.
6 Dec 1853 Congregational Chapel, Freeman St, Adelaide=Ruth Conquest
SCRUTTON, Head of School (1881) at 2 Cleveland Garden, Ealing, Middlesex,
(1856 Kingsdown, GLS) bc1823, Kingsland, MDX, ref 5/8;4/9;1, d reg C1905
Nuneaton, 2nd daughter of Alexander SCRUTTON of London
Upper Park Street Bristol; Kingsdown; 2 Cleveland Gdns, Ealing; The
Vicarage, Church St, Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
He died on a voyage returning to England for health reasons, on 29
September 1855.
9.Sophia Cox BOMPAS 28 Oct 1824 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol/Stapleton, ref
x1/5; 1/7; 3/7;12/8;3/9;1/B1;
CHECK Jun 1866 Stockbridge=John F. SMITH, unitarian
minister, ref 3/9
8 Clifton Park Rd, Bristol; Battersea
She emigrated to East London, South Africa and ran a school for young
girls and boys together with her sister, Selina Carpenter. In about 1894 one
of the sister’s health deteriorated and they were forced to close the
school. She died a spinster
at 5 Kimberley Terrace, East London on 18 December 1908, aged 84 years.
10. Jane Smith BOMPAS b 22 July, bap 8 Oct 1826 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol/Stapleton, 7 September 1847, reg C1847 Clifton=William Henry TOOKE, jeweller of Ely Place LND. By a strange coincidence, while G.G.B. (1931) and G.G.B. (1960) were
at Michaelhouse, the former as a teacher and the latter as a scholar, her
great granddaughter Rosemary and her husband Rev. Harold Clarke who was the
school chaplain, was also there. The Clarkes later emigrated to New Zealand.
11. Anna(e) Caroline BOMPAS, b 28 / 29 Apr 1829 Stapleton, ref x1/5She
married George Bean THOMAS in 1857 and died on 29 July 1874.
12.Edward Gwinnett BOMPAS, b 13 March, bap15 Mar 1831 Broad Mead Baptist,
Bristol/Stapleton ref x1/5; 3/7
Walton Villa, Wellington Park, Upper Park St, Clifton
He was an architect and came to
East London, South Africa. With the development of Natal he entered the
Colonial Engineers Office as an architect in 1888, but lost the post in
1894. He applied to the Public Works Department for employment as a Clerk of
Works for the New Colonial Offices in Pietermaritzburg
and in December 1894 was appointed temporary resident architect. In January
1895 he helped survey the competitive designs for the Colonial Offices. He
acted as Clerk of Works until 1897 when he was removed from the post at the
request of W.H.
Powell, the architect. He was getting on in years and rather forgetful and
was not of very robust health and was thus unable to climb the scaffold and
supervise in an efficient manner. Through compassion he was given a minor
post in the drawing office of the P.W.D.
and was allowed to continue his private practice, which he did until 1902.
Works under the Colonial Engineer included Ladysmith courthouse, Lunatic
asylum PMB.,
Mounted Police Barracks
PMB, Newcastle Post Office, Camperdown School, Howick School, post office, court house and magistrate’s house. He did private work
for Mr. Ellis of Hilton College, Miss Scottson-Clarke
of St. John’s school and Mr. Woodburn. While in PMB,
he lived at Mrs. Paley’s
Private Boarding House at 225 Loop Street from 1895 until 1902, and then at The
Gables, Chapel Street. He returned to East London and, in 1907, his
address was 3 Fullers Lane. He was nursed by Miss Clough, for the last few
months of his life and died a batchelor,
aged 85, on 3 August 1915 at 5 Kimberley Terrace, East London. He was buried
in East London, South Africa.
13. Selina Carpenter BOMPAS b 29 Jul 1833 Broad Mead Baptist, Bristol/Stapleton
ref x1/5; 1;3/7;9/8;3/9;1/B1; 31/112.
She emigrated to East London, South Africa and owned the school for young
ladies and gentlemen at which her sister assisted. A notice advertising this
school appeared in the East London Dispatch dated 21 July 1886. She died a
spinster on 23 February 1915 and was buried in East London, South Africa.
14. Charlotte Skey BOMPAS b19 Apr 1835 Stapleton refx1/5; 14/8;11/9.
By 1881: Patient
in Warneford Hospital, Oxford, classified as 'lunatic'. Died 21 October
1912.
15. Frederick William BOMPAS, the youngest child, was b June 1839 Stapleton ref x2/5, d 16 Sept 1904 Doornfontein, youngest son.
He married Elize (Elizah,
Elisa) Catherine Thomson (1850-1932) on 19 September 1869.
He is the founder of the South African branch of the Bompas family. He
arrived in South Africa in about 1865, in his twenties, and became a clerk
in King William’s Town but moved to East London in about 1872
where he set up his business (F.W. Bompas and Co., Landing , Shipping and
Forwarding Agents). He later diversified into other activities e.g. hardware
stores, insurance agent, 1877 served as Lt >Capt in Kaffrarian Volunteer Artillery; 1878 appointed as
JP for East London. Involved in local municipal politics.
He married Elize (Elizah, Elisa) Catherine Thomson (1850-1932) on 19
September 1869 but in about 1865, after the death of his mother, he returned
to England and persuaded his unmarried siblings to follow him to East London
viz. Edward, Sophia and Selina.
Catherine was the daughter of the Rev. William Ritchie Thomson, a
Presbyterian missionary and his second wife, Isabella Abercrombie-Smith.
(The latter’s uncle was Charles Abercrombie-Smith, a prominent member of the
Molteno government, who was later knighted for his endeavours.) The Rev.
Thomson set up a missionary at Balfour, Katberg and later a second mission
station at Hertzog where Catherine was born in 1850. The family returned to
Balfour sometime later and had some unenviable experiences in the early
Kaffir Wars. The house in which they lived, was twice burned down by the
rebellious natives. When the Kaffirs made their attacks, the family took
refuge in a small fort known as Fort Armstrong.
Frederick William and Catherine had eleven children, ten of whom were born
in the Eastern Cape and the last, Mary, in Johannesburg. While still in the
Eastern Cape, he suffered heavy financial losses during the “Great
Depression” and his firm went into bankruptcy in 1888 after which he left
East London to start a new life in Johannesburg , taking all the household
goods and chattels on the train as far as Aliwal North where the railway
line ended and then onto Johannesburg on an oxwagon. He served as a
secretary to the Central Langlaagte Gold Mining Company. . Frederick William
died of a brain haemorrhage on 16 September 1904 and was buried in
Doornfontein.
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Children of Charles Carpenter BOMPAS b1791, d 1840, 19 December 1822= Mary Steele TOMKINS
1. Charles Steele BOMPAS b 24 September 1823
Frenchay, the eldest son
became Assistant Secretary to the Zoological Society. He died of
smallpox at the age of 24.
Family nurse, Chatto, helped with Charles and
subsequent sister.
2. Female BOMPAS, b and d 1824-5
Frenchay, buried Downend Chapel burying-ground.
3. Mary Jane BOMPAS, 7 January 1826 Grenville Street, Bedford Square,
London, d 24 Jan 1881 Milby nr Sherbrooke
Canada, eldest daughter. She kept house for brother Henry in Avenue Road.
4. George Cox BOMPAS, b18 Apr 1827 Grenville Street, Bedford Square,
London ref1/7;1/8; 33/1
Solicitor in city firm for 59 years (retired 1903) & astronomer, d 23 May
1905 (reg B1905 Paddington) at 121 Westbourne Terr,, Hyde Park, bur Putney
Vale Cemetery,
CHB described him as 'a tall handsome man,
with exceptionally charming and courteous manners and of a very fine
generous nature'. Apart from the life of his brother-in-law, Frank
Buckland, GC also wrote papers on Aerolites, which were published by the
Royal Astronomical Society.
10 Jul 1860 St Thomas, Marylebone, London, September Q1860 Marylebone LON
=Mary Ann Scott
BUCKLAND bc1829-1830 Christchurch, Oxford/Yorkshire (ref1/7;1/8; 69/1),
eldest daughter of the later Very Rev William BUCKLAND DD, Dean of
Westminster, d 23
Aug 1915 at 121 Westbourne Terrace [where the family lived from c1870s -
1937], bur Putney Vale Cemetery
19 Coleman St, London; 15 Stanley Gardens, Kensington; Paddington
5. Joseph Tomkins BOMPAS b13 Jul 1828 ?Fishponds, third son
=
emigrated to Canada. By Christmas 1859 (1854?) with wife + son to farm, and died there.
6. Selina Anne BOMPAS b 1830 11
Park Road, Regent's Park, London
7. William Carpenter BOMPAS,
b 20 January 1834 at 11 Park Road, Regent's Park, London, the fourth son of Charles Carpenter Bompas,
Serjeant-at-law, one of the most eminent advocates of his day, and Leader of
the Western Circuit, 19 December 1822= Mary Steele TOMKINS, daughter of Mr. Joseph Tomkins, of
Broughton, Hants.
Kensington B1874 (7 May 1874)= his cousin, Charlotte Selina, 'Nina', COX b 24 Feb 1830 -
21 Jan. 1917 in Montreal, linguist, musician, & creator of Yukon branch of Women's Auxiliary,
younger daughter [and therefore cousin of WCB] of Joseph COX MD of Montague Square, LON (part of whose
family owned Overn Hill and Fishponds manor house, Bristol)=Charlotte, dau
of George SKEY of the Hythe, Upton-on-Severn, descendant of Sir William
SKEYE who came to England with Queen Matilda in 1137.
Babbacome, Torquay
William was a shy boy
possibly because of being tutored privately at
home by Mr Elliott. He loved
walking, and sketching churches and other buildings that he encountered. His
early gardening hobby was useful in later life when planning for the mission-farms in his
northern diocese.
At 16, he was baptized by immersion
by the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel. In 1852, he was articled to a firm of
solicitors, where brother George worked,
and he worked there for five years. He transferred to Ashurst Morris and Co
where he worked for two years, until 1858 when he suffered some sort of
breakdown and spiritual crisis. It is thought now that this was
connected with his ill-fated proposal to his cousin. He left legal work and,
in 1859, he was confirmed by the Bishop of
London at St Mary's, Bryanston Square. Later that year, on 18 December,
he was ordained Church of England deacon by Dr. Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln
as a literate candidate for Holy Orders,; appointed curate to Rev H. Owen,
rector of Trusthorpe and Sutton-in-the-Marsh Lincolnshire, he served there
until 1862. Brief appointments followed to other curacies, (curate of New
Radford, Nottingham, curate to Holy Trinity; South Lincolnshire; 1864 curate
to Rev H. Oldrid at Alford, LINCS).
He was a
talented linguist and learned Hebrew by private study to add to his
knowledge of Latin and Greek.
In May 1865 Bompas heard a sermon preached in London
by David Anderson, formerly bishop of Rupert’s Land, in which Anderson
called for a volunteer to replace the ailing missionary Robert McDonald in
the Yukon district of the Church Missionary Service’s North West America
mission. Bompas applied, was accepted by the CMS, and on 25 June was
ordained priest by Anderson’s successor, Bishop Robert Machray, who had just
been consecrated successor of Bishop Anderson.
During the
three weeks before his departure, he gave away his worldly goods
and, on
30 June 1865, Mr. Bompas left London for Liverpool, where he boarded the steamer
Persia, bound for New York. Arriving there on the 12 July, he
continued to Niagara by train and then on to Chicago. Having continued
by steamer and then again by railroad, his journey was delayed because he
could find no one to take him to Red River from St Cloud, presumably because
of fears for personal safety after the 1862 Sioux massacre.
Bompas and his
party were advised that they should take an English flag, which might give
some protection, and so Bompas made a flag to fly from their cart.
Once in the safety of red River, Bompas booked his journey north on board
one of the Hudson B ay Company boats. Their journey to Portage la
Loche took 63 days, but ,since their arrival on the 12 October was too late
for them to meet any northern-bound boat, they booked a canoe and two local
guides. He ignored advice about the impending cold weather
and
then proceeded on snowshoe into the Mackenzie district. William West Kirkby, the CMS missionary at Fort Simpson (N.W.T.),
was amazed when Bompas, unencumbered by luggage, and without suitable
cold-weather clothing, strode into the post, completely unannounced, on Christmas
Day, 1865.
He was greeted by
Rev. W. W. Kirkby, who told him that Mr. McDonald had recovered from ill
health and was able to continue his work. Therefore, Bompas began to learn the Indian language at Fort Simpson,
assisted by Mr. Kirkby, with whom he remained until Easter 1866.
Bompas travelled to the Mackenzie River area of northern Canada
and worked as a
missionary and priest; later he was appointed first Anglican Bishop of Dioceses of Athabasca
(1874 -1884).
Then in the
early summer of 1873 he learned that the CMS had decided to divide the
enormous diocese of Rupert’s Land and create the diocese of Athabasca in the
northwest; he had been nominated first bishop of the new jurisdiction.
Bompas was not pleased at the prospect as he preferred the simplest form
of church ceremony, seeing bishoprics as a “Romanish” institution. It took
Bompas from July until New Year's Eve to travel from the Yukon to Red River.
His unkempt appearance on arrival at Bishop Machray's residence in London,
the servant mistook him for atramp and initially denied him entrance.
He resolved to turn down the post, but he was persuaded that diocesan
organization was necessary to put the North West America mission on a firmer
foundation. On
3 May 1874, Bompas was consecrated bishop of Athabasca at St Mary’s Church in
London. Four days later,
on 7 May, he was united
in marriage to Miss Charlotte Cox,
he was married to his cousin Charlotte Selina Cox, (who had refused his
offer 20 years before),
by Bishop Anderson,
assisted by the Rev. John Robbins, Vicar of St. Peter's, Netting Hill, and
the Rev. Henry Gordon, Rector of Harting, and
the couple returned almost immediately to Fort Simpson.
Mrs. Bompas was also a
linguist like her husband and her proficiency in Italian was accompanied by
her detailed knowledge of Dante's works. She had shown little interest
in religious matters in the past, but when news came of a murdered
missionary Bishop in Melanesia in 1871, she appeared ready for a challenge
and accepted her cousin William Bompas's marriage proposal, perhaps little
realising the loneliness and deprivations that awaited them.
On 12
May
1874, the Bishop and Mrs. Bompas left England, reaching Fort Simpson, on 24 September. Fort Simpson was situated at the confluence of the
Mackenzie and Liard Rivers, and formed the most convenient point for
managing the vast diocese. It was there that Mr. Kirkby had built the church and
mission house. Mr. Hardisty, the chief officer of the Hudson's Bay
Company and the whole settlement came to the shore to meet Mr and Mrs Bompas. Most of the men around the fort had been sent away
as food supplies were low, aqnd made more so with the arrival of Bompas and
his party. Fortunately, at the critical moment, two Indians arrived,
bringing fresh meat.
The conditions that he and his wife endured took a great toll on their
health, and she frequently suffered from severe headaches and had to leave for medical treatment and rest.
In 1883, the provincial synod of Rupert's Land agreed to divide the diocese,
thereby appointing Bompas as Rt Rev Bishop of Mackenzie River, Canada (May
1884 -1891). When it was divided again, Bompas became Bishop of
Selkirk, now Yukon (1891 - 1905). At each
subdivision of his Diocese, he retained the most northerly, and therefore
most difficult section. His headquarters were at Forty Mile on the
Yukon River. His new diocese of 200,000 square miles was more than twice the
area of Great Britain, and the third largest diocese in British America,
stretching from the Diocese of Caledonia, on the south, to the Arctic Ocean
on the north, and was separated on the west by the 141st meridian longitude
from the United States territory of Alaska. To this new diocese the bishop
gave the name of "Selkirk."
He was an
able linguist who translated many religious works into northern native
dialects and wrote many translations of hymns and scripture into Beaver,
Slavey, and Tukudh. In the 1903 Who's Who he reported his
activities as 'Syriac studies or school keeping'. His wife Nina took a
particular interest in native women, which was aided by her speaking of the
Slavey language. She played the harmonium to the delight of their
native congregations and was well known for her attitude towards local
children, not only instructing them but also caring for them in the event of
parental absence or illness. She informally adopted two of these children,
planning to raise them as her own. The first, Jenny (Jeannie), died as an
infant and the second, Owindia (baptized Lucy May), apparently died in
England as a toddler. Nina also undertook medical work in the diocese. She
was a firm believer in homoeopathic remedies and always carried the
appropriate supplies. During her husband’s absence in summer 1876, she
travelled to Fort Chipewyan (Alta) to make preliminary arrangements for the
establishment of a new mission, but, by winter, she was so ill that she had
to travel to Winnipeg the following Spring to recuperate.
Two years
later, she went back to mission work at Fort Simpson, but, in 1883, she went
to England and gave talks to raise the profile of missionary work, and she
also arranged for the publication of her book Owindia.
In 1886–87, she returned to her missionary work, which was once more
hampered by ill health and she returned to England once more, before
returning to Montreal where many of her activities also involved
fund-raising as the CMS was gradually withdrawing its support.
On 31 January 1890, William Bompas was living at Fort Norman, living in the
church, with a large stove, and eating more flour, so he tells us, than he
had done for twenty-five years.
As the Rev. W. Spendlove remarked, he had few needs, "An iron cup, plate,
or knife, with one or
two kettles, form his culinary equipment. A hole in the snow, a corner of a
boat, wigwam, or log hut, provided space, six feet by two feet for sleeping
accommodation. Imagine him seated on a box in a twelve-foot room, without
furniture, and there cooking, teaching, studying, early and late, always at
work, never at ease, never known to take a holiday."
On 5 August 1891, Bompas wrote to his wife in England from Fort Norman,
"I am now engaged in packing up, with the view, if God will, of shortly and
finally leaving Mackenzie River for the far west."
While Nina was
in Montreal, the new diocese of Selkirk was created and Bishop Bompas moved
to Buxton mission at Forty Mile, on the Yukon River where Nina joined him in
1892. They were both well-respected by the miners as shown by the gold
nugget presented to Nina on Christmas Day 1892. In 1896, she visited
England again because her elder sister was seriously ill;, but when she
returned to the Yukon, encountered the Klondike gold-rush. She rose to the
challenge of providing a mission centre to give a warm welcome to the
newcomers.
In 1901 Bishop
Bompas moved his permanent headquarters to Caribou Crossing (Carcross).
Initially, they had Bishop Ridley's tent for shelter until they were able to
rent a bunk house, albeit infested by gophers, for $150. Three years
later Nina went on a tour to speak to women’s auxiliaries in Toronto,
Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec. She raised $800 in Toronto so that a church
could be built at Carcross.
On 31 October
1905, Bompas resigned as Bishop of Selkirk, and on 9 Jun1906 he died and was
buried there.
On 9 June 1906
William Bompas, the Bishop who ate his bbots during a difficult winter
season, died and Nina decided to move to
Montreal to live with two nieces in Westmount. Until she died in 1917, she continued to
be an inspiring speaker about northern mission work.
Publications:
- An apostle of the north: memoirs of the Right
Reverend William Carpenter Bompas
written by H A Cody (Toronto and London, 1908)
.
- A heroine of the north; memoirs of Charlotte
Selina Bompas (1830–1917), wife of the first bishop of Selkirk (Yukon),
with extracts front her journals and letters, comp. S. A. Archer
(London, [1929])
- Owindia:
a true tale of the Mackenzie River Indians, North-West America
(London, [1886?]) by Charlotte Selina Cox Bompas
- Northern
lights on the Bible; drawn from a bishop's experience during twenty-five
years in the great north-west / by William Carpenter Bompas.
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8. Henry Mason BOMPAS, b1836 Marylebone ref7/8;5/9;14/1, d 5 March 1909 (reg
A1909 Kensington) at 4 Phillimore Gdns, Kensington, educated by Mr. Elliot,
attended a private day school; his brother, George, paid for him to attend
University College where he won a scholarship at the end of the first year,
and another at the end of the second, which could be drawn by attending only
2 lectures a week.
He won a Sizarship at St John's; attended St
John's College,
Cambridge, while coming up to London for his 2 weekly lectures. At the
end of his first year at Cambridge, he took his BA at London, winning the
University Scholarship for Mathematics, with Honours in Classics and Animal
Physiology. At the end of his third year, he took his MA at
London, winning a Gold Medal for Mathematics at London University.
At Cambridge he became Fifth Wrangler, and
while there an Act was passed allowing Nonconformists to take their degree.
However, the Fellowship that would have automatically been his was denied to
him. As a result he supported himself through his studies by coaching
University College students.
He was looked after in Avenue Road by sister Mary Jane
before marriage.
C1867 Marylebone=Rachel Henrietta WHITE bc1845/6 Hereford (ref7/8;27/1) d 19
Sep 1923 South Kensington, eldest daughter of Rev Edward WHITE of Holloway
1871 he presented his paper The Best Means of
Evangelising the Masses, at the annual meeting of the Baptist Union.
Gloucester Road, Regent's Park;
Abingdon House [built by him 1872], Green Hill Rd, Hampstead, where they
attended Dr Horton's Congregational Church [CHB commented 'There were fields
all round when we went there, with a field path up from Swiss Cottage, where
the Metropolitan railway then ended. The house was sold in 1894.'; Headingley Leeds; 1 Roland
Mansions, South Kensington; He took silk in 1877, and became a Bencher of
the Inner Temple in 1881. The gate of the Temple to the Strand was
repaired while he was Treasurer of the Inn, and so the gate's incorporated
his initials. Queens
Counsel in Actual Practice; unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate three
times; 1884 Recorder of Plymouth; Leader of the Western Circuit until 1896 when
he accepted the County Court Judgeship of Bradford Circuit. On retirement he lived in Phillimore gardens,
Kensington where he died.
9. Anna Selina BOMPAS b14 Sep 1855 Stapleton, b reg D1852 Clifton.
Park Road, Regent's Park, London
10. Sophia Cox BOMPAS =John Frederick SMITH, Unitarian Minister
> Henry Bompas SMITH, educationalist, Professor at Manchester University;
Mina Steele SMITH, tutor at Newnham.
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Children of George Joseph BOMPAS, b 1812 , 1839=Marianne BEDDOME.
1. Theresa Jane BOMPAS b4 Aug 1839Stapleton
ref x2/5
Fishponds House, Bristol; Redland, Gloucester
=Edwin TAMBS> 6 known children
2.Catherine Frances (Catharine Fanny) BOMPAS 20 Nov 1841Stapleton, reg
Clifton D1841,ref x2/5
=William MANNIX b 7 Nov 1842 County Cork, (son of William McCarthy MANNIX=Mary
HAMILTON) emigrated to Quebec 1860 and believed to have settled in
Saskatchewan.
3.Helen Marianne BOMPAS c1843 Stapleton, ref x2/5
4.Arthur George BOMPAS, commercial clerk/bookkeeper, b10 Feb1844 Stapleton,
reg A1844, ref x2/5; 4/8;2/9;2/B1; 13/1
d 24 Apr 1928,
24 Feb 1869, A1869 Lymington=Frances (Fanny GATTRELL) b24 Mar1844 Lymington
d 11 May 1932 (ref4/8;2/9;2/B1; 56/1)
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney
Arrived, 'of Barnett', at Ellis Island 8 Oct, 1903, on 'Aurania' from
Liverpool, and on 6 Mar 1921 on 'Imperator' from Liverpool
5. Edith Winter BOMPAS, telegraph operator, b reg C1845 Clifton, ref x2/5
Lodger at DUNN household, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine, USA
6. Edwin Mason BOMPAS b reg B1847 Clifton, b24 Apr 1847
ref x2/5
Fishponds House, Bristol; Redland, Gloucester
7. Mason Winter BOMPAS/BUMPASS, bank clerk, b reg A1849 Clifton/Bristol,
ref4/7;10/8;
d reg A1887 Greenwich.
Lodged at 12 Bernard St, Bloomsbury
St Saviour A1884=Anne bc1850-2 Huntingdon (ref10/8) ? Annie Eliza d reg
B1888 Huntingdon
171 Church Rd MDX
8. Adelaide Sarah BOMPAS, twin daughter b reg B1849 Clifton, b1 Mar 1849
,ref x2/5, d as a child,
Fishponds House, Bristol; 50 Albany Road, Camberwell 1851; Redland,
Gloucester
9. Florence Maria BOMPAS, b reg B1849 Clifton, b1 Mar 1849 ,ref x2/5d 20
Jun 1943, twin daughter
Fishponds House, Bristol; Redland, Gloucester
=Thomas William BOWN jnr son of Capt. Thomas BOWN snr=Mary Ann SHARMAN> 8
known children
10. Frances Isabel BOMPAS b reg B1850 Camberwell,ref 6/9; 45/1, d A1902
Islington/?1892?, deaconess/supt, boarder at Deaconess Houses, Mildmay Park,
Islington, MDX ,
Fishponds House, Bristol; Redland, Gloucester
50 Albany Road Camberwell 1851
11. Alfred Barnard BOMPAS c1844-51 Stapleton/Marylebone, ref x2/5;13/8;
d C1902 Pancras, auctioneer's clerk/house surveyor
at Matilda CAGNY's (BARNARD), widow and aunt, b Alfriston, SSX
69 Huntingdon St, Islington, MDX; St Pancras
C1902 Pancras= (or son's marriage?)
12.?? Anna Selina BOMPAS b reg D1852 Clifton
See14 Sep 1855
13. John Beddome BOMPAS, d as a child, bc1850 overseas
14. Alice Margaret BOMPAS b 7 Apr 1855 Stapleton
15. Rosamond Mary BOMPAS, teacher, b4 Jul 1859 Stapleton, ref 8C
With parents in Sherbrooke, Quebec 1881
....................................................................................................................................
Children of Dr. Charles Smith BOMPAS b1818, 1862= Betty (Elizabeth)
KENYON:
1.Elizabeth K. BOMPAS c1856/7 Manchester ref2/7;2/8
9 Beech St, Cheetham;180 Rydal Mount, Cheetham, LAN.
2. Thomas H. BOMPAS bc1863 Manchester, ref2/8
Manchester 1856; 9 Beech St Cheetham
3. Frances Henrietta (Fanny) BOMPAS bap 22 Apr 1863Christ Church, LAN
Manchester, ref 2/7
daughter and only child(?)
1890 Waddington Lancs(reg B1890 Ulverston)=Francis Ambrose Neville PARKER
.............................................................................
Children of Joseph Carpenter BOMPAS MD, b1823, (1)1847 = Fanny (Frances
Henrietta) BEDDOME; (2)1853 Adelaide=Ruth Conquest SCRUTTON:
1. Herbert Gregory BOMPAS b1851 London,
d/bur 31 Aug 1852
2. John Reynolds BOMPAS, b23 Aug 1852 Adelaide, d 14 Nov 1852 Adelaide,
3.
4.
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Children of George Cox BOMPAS, b 1827, 1860 =Mary Ann Scott BUCKLAND:
1. Charles Steele Murchison BOMPAS, b reg C1862 Kensington, ref1/8;49/1
solicitor's articled clerk>solicitor (Bischoff, Coxe, Bompas & Hischoff),
19 Coleman St, London; 15 Stanley Gardens, Kensington; Paddington; 4 Great
Winchester St, LND; Paddington
2. Harold Buckland BOMPAS c1864/5 Kensington / Notting Hill, ref1/7;11/8; 9/1
scholar at Charterhouse, Goldalming, Surrey, later barrister at law,
=
Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park; Paddington; Plainfield USA; 6 New Sq,
Lincoln's Inn
Arrived at Ellis Island on 'Mauretania' out of Liverpool
3. Katherine BOMPAS bap 3 Nov 1864, St Peter's,
Cranley Gardens
4. Winifred Mary BOMPAS bap 10 July 1867 St Peter's, Cranley
Gardens ref1/7;1/8;1
19 Coleman St, London; 15 Stanley Gardens, Kensington; Paddington
5. Alan Chantrey BOMPAS, b reg C1873 Kensington/Notting Hill, d 28 Jan
1927of heart failure, solicitor's clerk,
19 Coleman St, London; 15 Stanley Gardens, Kensington; Paddington
C1909 Paddington=
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Children of Henry Mason BOMPAS, bc1837,1867 =Rachel Henrietta WHITE
1.Cecil Henry BOMPAS, b1868 Pancras,
d Romsey, Deputy Commissioner Singbhoom, Bengal,
28 April 1897 Cathedral, Calcutta=Geraldine BARTON of Faindreg, Dundaik
Broughton HANTS, 1911=Nita Frances
Son,
Eric Ainsley BOMPAS bc1915, Lt 116524 attd. 1 (Hong Kong) Regt., Hong
Kong & Singapore Royal Artillery, died 21 Dec 1941, Stanley Military
Cemetery China.
2.Ethel Aldersey BOMPAS c1869/70 Pancras, ref7/8;73/1 Came out
to see her brother Cecil in Calcutta in 1909.
31 Oct 1911, St Peter's Belsize Park, Hampstead (reg D1911
Hampstead)=Herbert Philip DUVAL I.C.S. Ethel was awarded an OBE for
her organisations of the supply 'of comforts to the native troops in
Mesopotamia during the war.'.
3. George Cuthbert BOMPAS, D1870 Pancras, ref7/8; d 11 March 1929 Bradford,
B1907 Southwell=Katherine BAYLAY.
Abingdon House, Green Hill Rd, Hampstead; Headingley Leeds; 1 Roland
Mansions, South Kensington
After failing to get in the army, he went to
Johannesburg and worked, unsuccessfully, as an assayer at a goldmine.
It is said, but there is no proof, that he took part in the Jameson
Raid in South Africa in 1896. (See G.G.Bompas 1870 ).
Volunteered in 2nd Boer war 1899-1902, Sgt. 1st Scottish Horse. On
returning home, he was appointed High Bailiff of the Bradford County Court
by his father.
After having 2 sons, they separated
and Katherine devoted the rest of her life to Women's Suffrage.
Sons,
Henry Mason and Mervyn Ainsley
4. Margaret Alice BOMPAS, A1873Hampstead /Pancras MDX, ref7/8;1
St Bartholomew's hospital nurse after training there. Then she ran a
nursing home at Beaumont street, Marylebone, with Miss Brailsford.
Abingdon House, Green Hill Rd, Hampstead
5. Maurice Edward BOMPAS b reg D1874 Hampstead, died in infancy.
Abingdon House, Green Hill Rd, Hampstead
6. Rachael Mary Dorothea BOMPAS b reg B1877 Hampstead ref7/8; 32/1.
Joined an Anglican sisterhood.
Abingdon House, Green Hill Rd, Hampstead; Headingley Leeds.
7. Gladys Ainsley BOMPAS b reg A1879
Hampstead,ref7/8; 66/1, became a hospital almoner. 1929, first
Chairman of the public Assistance Committee in Poplar.
Abingdon House, Green Hill Rd, Hampstead; Headingley Leeds
8. Hugh Steele BOMPAS, b 9th Dec 1881 Hampstead London, ref10/1
barrister until WWII, then Secretary for Education to the Dental Board, d 1944
Abingdon House, Green Hill Rd, Hampstead; Headingley Leeds; 1 Roland
Mansions, South Kensington
2 Garden Court, Temple.
C1907 Leeds?=Violet Dorothy LUPTON >sons, Anthony Hugh d in infancy;
David Aldersey
=Dorothy Cathcart Wight JONES
Batting: Right-hand batsman and Wicket-keeper
Teams: Cambridge University (Main FC: 1901-1903); London County (Main FC:
1901)
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Children of Arthur George BOMPAS, b1844 1869 =Frances (Fanny GATTRELL)
1. Florence Martha G. BOMPAS, b c1869/70 Lymington, ref4/8;10/9;2/B1; 55/1
stationer's assistant,3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15
Penshurst, and 123 Victoria Park Rd, Hackney
Florence arrived at Ellis Island 29 Mar 1903 by 'Philadelphia' from
Southampton
2. Arthur George S BOMPAS, b reg D1871 Lymington, ref4/8;37/1
commercial traveller,
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; apprentice at11 High St, Lymington;
St Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne
B1906 Barnet=?Florence M WHITE?
3. Cecil Gwinett BOMPAS b 1873, dC1873 Lymington
4. Frances Marianne BOMPAS, B1874Lymington, ref4/8;10/9;2/B1; 28/1
shorthand writer and typist,
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney
5. Alfred Ernest BOMPAS, b reg A1876 Lymington,ref4/8;2/9; 72/1
jnr clerk/window dresser,
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney
Kensington
6. Lily Eliza BOMPAS, A1878 Christchurch HANTS/Boscombe,
ref4/8;2/9;2/B1;35/1draper's assistant,
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney
7. Edward Anstie BOMPAS, b11 Nov 1880,
16 Feb 1909=Lizzie Mary FRASER b 28 Oct 1885 d 10 Feb 1975
D1880 Lymington, ref4/8;2/9;2/B1; 59/1
ministerial student, d 22 Apr 1956,
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney
8. Gertrude Alice BOMPAS, b reg C1882 Lymington, ref2/9;2/B1; 60/1; shorthand writer/typist,
Hackney C1908 Edmonton=
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd,
9. Dora Beatrice BOMPAS, b reg D1883 Lymington ref2/9;2/B1; 54/1
draper's apprentice,
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney
B1908 Edmonton=
10. Herbert (Henry?)William BOMPAS, b 10 Nov 1884 Lymington,
ref2/9;2/B1; 12/1;
warehouseman / clerk
Arrived, 'of Barnett', at Ellis Island 8 Oct, 1903, on 'Aurania' from
Liverpool, and on 6 Mar 1921 on 'Imperator' from Liverpool
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney
Admiralty: Registers of Seamen's Services: online, ref cat no ADM188/589
service no F14638
11. Arthur George BOMPAS bc1890, (?son of Arthur George BOMPAS,
3 Bellevue Terrace, Gosport St, Lymington; 15 Penshurst, and 123 Victoria
Park Rd, Hackney?)
Arrived at Ellis Island 29 Mar 1903 on ''Philadelphia' from Southampton
............................................................................................
Children of Frederick William BOMPAS, the youngest child, was b June 1839 Stapleton ref x2/5, d 16 Sept 1904 Doornfontein,
youngest son. 19 September 1869= Elize (Elizah, Elisa) Catherine
Thomson (1850-1932):
1. George Gwinnett Bompas born 15 June 1870, died 31
January 1948. He was born in King William’s Town, Nairobi, educated at the local
public school, prospected and joined PaarlCental G.M. in 1889 and then
assisted his father who was then the secretary of the Central Langlaagte
Gold Mining Company. He later moved on as an accountant to the Consolidated
Gold Fields in 1898. Although no documentary evidence exists, it was said
that George Gwinnett and some friends either organised a warehouse to store
arms and ammunition for use in the Jameson Raid 1896 or owned the warehouse
and rented it to a third party. Probably the actual involvement was a
commercial opportunity but we have in our possession a set of books that
belonged to Jameson and which were given to George Gwinnett. He was a Rand
pioneer and had a street in Dunkeld, Johannesburg named after him. He
married Alice Maud Mitford Bowker (1882-1929) daughter of a prominent
settler family in the Eastern Cape on 21 January 1901 and three children
were born. He was a governor of King Edward School in Johannesburg in 1912
and in 1913 he emigrated to Nairobi, Kenya where he was twice elected mayor.
He died in London on 31 January 1948 after an operation.
2. Frederick William Ritchie Bompas born 24 March 1872- 1953? in King
William’s Town, =. Rose Pakeman >one child. He was educated at the local school and was on the
Headquarters Staff of the Colonial Defence Force in K.W.T. during the Boer
War and won the S.A. medal. He was affected with polio during his life and
towards the latter part of it, was confined to a wheelchair. He was a
registered public accountant who came to the Transvaal in May 1889 and later
was also the secretary of Veasays Engineering College.
3. Catherine Frances Isabel Bompas (Katie) born 6 November 1873-1963.
= Dr. Charles MacNab of Balfour, Eastern Cape. No issue.
4. Lilian Jane Bompas (Lily) 17 October 1874-1937.
1897= John Osborn > six children, one of whom, Dr. Tom Osborn was a Rhodes scholar
and a Labour member of the South African government.
5. Mary Theodora Bompas born 15 June 1877. Died December 1877.
6. Charles Abercrombie Bompas born 22 January 1879. Died 22 August 1879.
7. Francis Gwinnett Bompas (Frank) born 12 November 1880, died 2 July 1932,
25 January 1908= Mona Frances Watkins Pakeman, his sister-in-law’s sister >three children by her.
He was educated at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Colony from about
1895 to 1897. He joined the Kaffrarian Rifles at the outbreak of the Boer
War and won the Queen South Africa Medal 5 bars (now in the East London
museum). He was wounded and discharged and subsequently joined Kitchener’s
Fighting Scouts.
He went to the Transvaal in 1899 and was the chief agent for the Scottish
Union and National Insurance Co. And General Life Assurance.
8. Reginald Gwinnett Bompas born and died 1882.
9. Eleanor Freda Bompas (Nellie) born 5 January 1885-1943,
= Max Honnett, a director of a mining company and was widowed in 1925 > two
children.
10. Grace Ethel Bompas. Born 15 October 1887 and died in 1918 on active
service when the “Galway Castle” was torpedoed.
11. Mary Dorothea Gwinnett Bompas 18 April 1892 - 20 January 1977. She was
an artist =Edgar Arnold Packer, the cartoonist “Quip”. Both she
and her husband were associated with the newspaper “The Star” in
Johannesburg for many years, where she was the art and music critic. She was
also invited to exhibit her art at the S.A. Academy of Art. No issue.
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Children of George Gwinnett BOMPAS, 21 January 1901= Alice Maud Mitford BOWKER:
1. George Gwinnett Bompas 15
November 1901-22 December 1970, =Muriel Millicent Gay > two sons.
Born and
educated in Johannesburg he later went with his father to Kenya and by 1931
was the chief engineer of the East African Power and Lighting Company in Mombasa. In 1956
the family left Kenya and returned to South Africa where George Gwinnett
farmed in Merrivale, Natal. He later retired to Durban where he died on 22
December l970. He was buried in Howick, Natal.
2. Frederick William Gwinnett Bompas
7 March 1906-15 November 1972, 1929=Elizabeth Walton Charlotte ELLIS>three
sons.
Educated
in Johannesburg he went to Kenya and was a founder member of the Kenya
Regiment and held the rank of Major during the WW 2. In 1958 Frederick William
was elected to represent the Kiambu constituency as an independent on the
Kenya Legislative Council and later took an active part in the Lancaster
House Conference in London which formulated the constitution for independent
Kenya. He was a director of many Kenyan companies as well as Norwich Union,
and was also the president of Nairobi Rotary Club. He returned to South
Africa in 1964 and died in Durban on 15 November 1972.
3. Agnes Catherine Gwinnett Bompas 22 February 1917-8 September 1984,
= John Anthony Budge, from Stroud.
?also Richard J bc1910 who travelled with Alice Maud to
Plymouth, England from Durban on Llandovery Castle, arriving in London c18
December 1915. |
