Robert William Cumberbatch

Male 1821 - 1876  (55 years)


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  • Name Robert William Cumberbatch 
    Born 1821  Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 9 Feb 1822  Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 29 Mar 1876  Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 30 Mar 1876  Buca Anglican Cemetery, Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I22642  Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23
    Last Modified 5 Jun 2022 

    Father Abraham Parry Cumberbatch, Esquire,   c. 29 Nov 1784, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Oct 1840, Tunbridge-Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years) 
    Mother Caroline Chaloner,   b. 2 Oct 1788, Guisborough, York, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Oct 1842, Brompton, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Married 13 Apr 1819  Tonbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6872  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Ellen Lloyd,   b. 1812,   d. 15 Mar 1845, Chiddingley, Sussex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Married 3 Oct 1843  Winkfield, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Ellen Camilla Mary Ann Cumberbatch,   b. 25 Feb 1845, Chiddingley, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1914, Plymouth, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F8560  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Louisa Grace Hanson,   b. 23 Mar 1831, Constantinople, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Jan 1910, Constantinople, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 14 Apr 1853  Constantinople, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. William Ernest Cumberbatch,   b. 1854,   d. 1855  (Age 1 years)
     2. Robert Carlton Cumberbatch,   b. 1855,   d. 1868  (Age 13 years)
     3. Constance Louisa Caroline Cumberbatch,   b. 1857,   d. 1922  (Age 65 years)
     4. Henry Alfred Cumberbatch,   c. 27 Jun 1858, Berdyans'k, Zaporiz'ka oblast, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1918, Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years)
     5. Arthur Herbert Cumberbatch,   b. 1860, Berdiansk, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1921, Istanbul, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
     6. Edith Catherine Cumberbatch,   b. 1863,   d. Abt 1867  (Age 4 years)
     7. George Charles Cumberbatch,   b. 1865,   d. Abt 1866  (Age 1 years)
     8. Gertrude Evelyn Cumberbatch,   b. 3 Feb 1866, Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1924, Christchurch, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)
     9. Alice Maud Cumberbatch,   b. 1868,   d. 1869  (Age 1 years)
     10. Cyril James Cumberbatch,   b. 1873,   d. 1944  (Age 71 years)
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F6878  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • father of twelve children

      Letter from Robert William Cumberbatch dated 31 July 1848: We aresuffering greatly from the heat, the thermometer is generally 86degrees in the shade. The cholera still consumes in some localities.The deaths at Jassy during 40 days amounted to 12,000, the number isnow under 40 per day. My brother has taken a very nice house with agardnen in the adjoining Turkish Quarter which will serve for a summerresidence..... this privilege has lately been granted by the Sultan onaccount of the demand and scarcity of houses since the late fire (TheLloyds of Harley Street - SoG FH/LLO Vol1 pp 78-79).

      26 October 1850 (Fanny Hart writes): Poor little Ellen ! ! I am assorry for the poor girl as you are but certainly will not be the firstto make advances to Robert's family especially as I have too many other claims upon me (The Lloyds of Harley Street - SoG FH/LLO Vol 1pp 79).

      Consul at Smyrna (Marshall G.W. - Collections for a GenealogicalAccount of the Family of Comberbach).

      Died in office aged 55 (L. Laurence Boyle, Cumberbatch Genealogy).

      CUMBERBATCH Robert William Esq. 18 March [1885] The Will of RobertWilliam CUMBERBATCH late of Smyrna in Turkey Esquire Her Majesty’sConsul at Smyrna who died 29 March 1876 at Smyrna was proved at thePrincipal Registry by Henry James HANSON and George Henry CLIFTON bothof Constantinople in Turkey Esquires the Executors. Personal Estate£440 10s 8d in England.

      RWC went to Constantinople on 1 June 1845 as secretary to his half-brother Abraham Carleton Cumberbatch, the Consul-General until 22 May 1855. He became Acting Second Consul 25 May 1855 to 30 June 1856, third Vice Consul to September 1857 and was appointed Consul at Berdiansk, Sea of Azoff 12 January 1858. He went to Smyrna 25 April 1864. Appointed Post Office Agent, Smyrna 25 September 1872.