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My great-great aunt's husband Harold Dilke - his middle name is sometimes given as Henadge, possibly a misspelling of Heneage - was born in Paris in 1881, four years after the death of his mother's husband. The date may have been February 13th, although my only source for this is a non-official document. His mother, Rosamond Fetherston Dilke (nee Dixie), was a socially prominent woman, the daughter of a baronet. Does anyone know where his birth may have been recorded?

Thanks!

Julia

FMP has overseas BMD's of British subjects

Thanks, Reggie, but what's FMP? (she said, showing her ignorance!)

Findmypast = FMP

Not ignorance at all Julia, it shouldn't be assumed that everyone knows all of the abbreviations

FMP = FindMyPast.

Was his father Sir Charles Dilke (just skimming the newspaper archives)

EDIT: No, that's another Dilke, have see Charles Fetherston Dilke's 1877 obit now in the papers.

I know this is the correct marriage from your Edwards thread:

Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928
Name: Harold Henadge Dilke [Harold Heneage Dilke]
Birth Place: Paris, France
Age: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Father Name: Charles Dilke
Mother Name: Rosamond D??E
Spouse Name: Amelia Edwards
Spouse's Age: 33
Spouse Birth Year: abt 1882
Spouse Birth Place: Bradford, York, England
Spouse Father Name: Albert Edwards
Spouse Mother Name: Mary Jane Wray Edwards
Marriage Date: 12 May 1915
Marriage County or District: Wentworth

Could this be Harold

HAROLD
•Last Name: DILKE
•Birth Year: 1881
•Age: 10
•Birth Place: FRANCE MILESH SUBJECT
•Relationship: SON
•Gender: Male
•Condition: SINGLE
•Street: QUEENS ROAD
•Parish: RICHMOND
•City: RICHMOND
•County: Surrey
•Country: ENGLAND
•Ecclesiastical District: ST MARYS
•Enumeration District: 1
•Municipal Ward: SOUTH
•Parliamentary Borough: KINGSTON
•Registration District: RICHMOND
•Record set: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census
•Archive Reference: RG12
•Folio: 14
•Page: 21

1891

Name: Harold Barbonx
[Harold Barboux]
[Harold Dilke]
[Harold Barboux]
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Rosanna Barbonx
Gender: Male
Where born: France

Civil Parish: Richmond
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration District: Richmond
Sub-registration District: Richmond
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 619
Folio: 14
Page Number: 21
Household Members:
Name Age
Rosanna Barbonx 43, Widow, b. Sussex, Bognor
Harold Barbonx 10, son b. France, British Subject
Henry Barbonx 2 Son b. Surrey, Richmond
Fanny Packer 27
Sarah Logan 22
Susan Boyes 27
Sarah Campbell 54


Corrections to Harold Surname

Name

Harold Dilke rather than Harold Barbonx
Born c1881 - his mother Rosamond married Marcel Barboux in 1887
Submitted by julia1922 on 07/04/2011

Harold Barboux rather than Harold Barbonx
Correction due to an error in transcription.
Submitted by lindsaybishop27 on 18/03/2011


Surname

Barboux rather than Barbonx
Rosamund and her second husband Marcel Barboux (a Belgian) were divorced in March 1889
Submitted by julia1922 on 25/07/2011

Rosamund Emily Fetherston Dilke married Marcel Phillipe Emile Barboux on 21 Feb 1887

Petition for divorce in 1888

Was she married before 1887 ?
Appears to have been a widow

What was her maiden name ?

linked

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1333420

There was a huge scandal in the newspapers in 1878 when Rosamond Emily Dilkes sued Major George Fetherston Dilkes (her late husband's brother) for libel and slander.

He had alleged that Rosamond had a long standing intimate relationship with Lord Aylesford. Lord Aylesford and she both denied this.

Major Dilkes was not found guilty but it reads like a deal was done.

Marriages Mar 1887
BARBOUX Marcel Philippe E Westminster 1a 748
DILKE Rosamond Emily F Westminster 1a 748
FETHERSTON-DILKE Rosamond Emily Westminster 1a 748


Births Sep 1888 BARBOUX Henry Wolstan Richmond, S 2a 361

Name: Henry Wolstan Barbour
Birth Date: 13 Jul 1888
Baptism Date: 18 Nov 1888
Archive Provided Parish: Richmond, St Matthias
Parish as it Appears: Richmond
Father: Marcel Phillis Emile Barbour, Occ. Gentleman
Mother: Rosamond Emily Barbour
Reference Number: 6067/1/1
Abode: The Laurels, Queens Road

Divorce

Name: Rosamund Emily Barboux
Gender: Female
Spouse Name: Marcel Phillippe Emile Barboux
Spouse Gender: Male
Petition Year: 1888
Type of Record: Wife's petition
Divorce Court File Number: 2563

Julia, other than the marriage record, what info do you have to confirm that he was born Paris?

On this passenger list he says born Richmond, Surrey

New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Name: Harold H Dilke
Arrival Date: 27 Feb 1947
Birth Date: abt 1881
Birth Location: Sry,eng
Birth Location Other: Richmond
Age: 66 Years 0 Months
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality: English
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Fort Townshend

He's a club steward and wife Amelia (64 years 11 months) is a telephone operator

Thanks, all! I'm fairly well-informed about Harold Dilke's later life, it's just the registration of his birth I'd like to clear up. AFAIK his marriage certificate is the only document which gives his place of birth as Paris.

Harold and Amelia visited my family in Bradford in the 1940s. Harold claimed that his father was an earl, and the scandal involving his mother and the Earl of Aylesford certainly makes this story credible - as does his middle name, as the earl's full name was Joseph Heneage Finch.

Oddly enough, Aylesford's estranged wife also gave birth to an illegitimate son in Paris in 1881 - the father was the Marquess of Blandford, Winston Churchill's uncle!

GlitterBaby, Rosamond's maiden name was Dixie - her father was Sir Alexander Dixie of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. Again, I've researched this side of the family quite thoroughly.

The Commune of Paris has a website where you can request a search for BMD. Unfortunately the searches start from 1903.

Ancestry has a data base Paris, France & Vicinity Births, 1700-1899 – having searched it, I can’t find a Dilke. The data base is primarily transcriptions of parish records.

Familysearch.org has links to RC baptisms, but there was a ‘technical difficulty’. The France, Protestant Church Records, 1612-1906 link does work, but with the description including “French commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL) does not allow publication of sensitive data below 150 years.” A baptism could be considered sensitive, but not a death.