Edmund BELFOUR Reginald Okey BELFOUR Maria Godfrey TURNER Emma BELFOUR Eleanor BELFOUR Emma CHRISTMAS Mini tree diagram

Edmund BELFOUR

- 4th Jun 18633,4,5,6

Life History

13th Nov 1823

Baptised in Holborn, St Giles in the Fields.1

Father - Edmund Belfour
Mother - Emma Belfour
Father's occupation - Secretary to the College of Surgeons
Residence - Lincoln's Inn Fields

6th Jun 1841

Recorded in census in St Giles & St George (Lincoln's Inn Fields).2

7th Sep 1847

Licence obtained for marriage to Maria Godfrey TURNER.8

11th Sep 1847

Married Maria Godfrey TURNER in Bloomsbury, St Giles.11,12

By licence
Groom - Edmund Belfour solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn Fields
Bride - Maria Godfrey Turner
Father of the groom - Edmund Belfour, gentleman
Father of the bride - Edward Turner, surgeon
Witnesses :-
Edmund Belfour
Maria Turner
2 illegible

approx. 1850

Birth of son Reginald Okey BELFOUR

24th Dec 1860

Death of son Reginald Okey BELFOUR in Wadnsworth.9,10

4th Jun 1863

Died in Richmond.3,4,5,6

By drowning in the River Thames
From the Sheffield Independent :-
"BELFOUR - Drowned, on the morning of June 4th, between Putney and Hammersmith, Edmund Belfour, Esq., of Grove House, Putney, aged 39"

From the London Daily News :-
"ANOTHER FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT. - The members of the legal profession and the public generally, more especially that portion of it connected with the various rowing clubs on the Thames, will learn with great regret that Mr. Edmund Belfour met with a fatal accident yesterday morning. It appears that soon after seven o'clock he left his residence, Grove-house, Putney, for his usual pull on the river, using on this occasion one of those light wager boats so common on that part of the Thames. After rowing for a short time the boat was observed suddenly to capsize. Assistance was immediately at hand, and on turning up the boat the watermen were greatly alarmed at finding it unoccupied. Drags were immediately procured, and strenuous efforts made to recover the body; up to ten o'clock it had not been recovered. A messenger was at once sent to Grove-house, where he fortunately met the Rev. Algernon Trimmer, the family tutor, who broke the sad news to his broken-hearted widow, who is left with seven children to mourn his loss. The deceased was the only son of Mr. Edmund Belfour, so long attached to the Royal College of Surgeons, and was only in his 40th year when meeting with this sad accident, which has cast a deep gloom over Putney where he was greatly respected."

10th Jun 1863

Buried in Putney, St Mary's.7

Age - 40

4th Jul 1863

Letters of Administration in Principal Registry.4

"Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of Edmund Belfour the younger late of Grove House Putney in the County of Surrey Gentleman deceased who died 4 June 1863 by drowning in the River Thames at or near Putney aforesaid were granted in the Principal Registry to Maria Godfrey Belfour of 36 Princes-square in the Parish of Paddington in the County of Middlesex Widow the Relic of the said Deceased she having been first sworn"

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