Agnes Lockhart Nisbet
1866 - 1955 (88 years)-
Name Agnes Lockhart Nisbet Relationship 
with Marion Murdoch Johnson Gender Female Birth 19 Oct 1866 West Hampstead, Camden, London 
[1, 2] Baptism 5 Dec 1866 St Paul's, Kilburn Square, Hampstead, Camden, London - Church was demolished in 1930s
Census 1871 28 Priory Road, Hampstead St John, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom [3] Census 1901 43 Church Road, Wimbledon, Merton, London, County of London, England, United Kingdom [4, 5] Census 1911 2 Thornton Hill, Wimbledon, Merton, London, County of London, England, United Kingdom [6] Census 1939 Hale Farm House, Ringwood & Fordinbridge, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom [7] Name Agnes Lockhart Mitchell Residence 1955 Ringwood, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom Death 13 Jun 1955 Park House Nursing Home, Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom [8] - See probate notice
Probate 20 Aug 1955 - Mitchell, Agnes Lockhart of Crow Cottage Ringwood Hampshire widow died 13 June 1955 at Park House Nursing Home Park Road Winchester. Probate London 20 August to Geoffrey Hugh Mitchell retired colonel HM army and Henry Murdoch Bryans retired major HM army. Effects £15946 6s. 9d.
Siblings5 brothers and 3 sisters Last Modified 24 Jan 2021
Father Harry Curtis Nisbet
b. 20 Apr 1830, Futtehgurh, Farrukhabad, North-Western Provinces, India
d. 18 Jul 1907, Old House, Wimbledon, Merton, London, County of London, England, United Kingdom (Age 77 years) Relationship Birth Mother Louisa Margaret Kelso Bruce
b. 28 Mar 1836, St Cross, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
d. 12 Nov 1924, Kingston, Surrey, England, United Kingdom (Age 88 years) Relationship Birth Marriage 20 Apr 1858 Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom [9]
Husband Hugh McPherson Mitchell
b. 24 May 1863, 88 Sloane Street, Chelsea, Kensington & Chelsea, London
d. 18 Mar 1901, Lanauli, Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, India (Age 37 years) Marriage 16 Jul 1894 St Andrew's, Khandwa, Central Provinces, India [10, 11] Age at Marriage Agnes was 27 years old - Hugh was 31 years old. Children 1. Fanny Curtis "Fay" Mitchell
b. 27 Mar 1895, Khandwa, Central Provinces, India
d. 3 Mar 1982, Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom (Age 86 years)2. Hugh Norman Bullen Mitchell
b. 1896, Kingston, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
d. Aug 1898 (Age 2 years)3. Lieut-Col. Geoffrey Hugh Mitchell
b. 27 Nov 1898, India
d. 25 Jul 1986, Malindi, Kenya (Age 87 years)Last Modified 2 Apr 2018
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Notes - Early life
Agnes Lockhart Nisbet was born on the 19th of October 1866 inWest Hampstead toHarry Curtis Nisbet andLouisa Margaret Kelso Bruce ; she was their third child of eight. She was baptised atSt Paul's Church1 in Kilburn Square on the 5th of December that same year. Agnes's middle name, Lockhart, may have come from her great-great uncle, James Lockhart, who married Mary Emilia Nisbet.
In the 1871 census, when Agnes was four, she is listed with her parents at 28 Priory Road in St John Hampstead. However, by the 1881 census when she should have been 14, she is not listed with her parents, so may have been at boarding school. In fact, Agnes disappears from both the 1881 and 1891 censuses and only reappears in 1901, after she has been married (and widowed).
Family life
Agnes married at the age of 28, on the 16th of July 1894 in India, toHugh McPherson Mitchell . It's not clear why they married in India as Agnes' family seems to have been London-based: Agnes' father (Harry Curtis Nisbet) had been born in India but was a solicitor in London and Agnes and all her siblings were born in in the UK.
Agnes and Hugh had three children whilst they were in India:
Fanny Curtis , born in 1895 in India and who marriedHenry Murdoch Bryans
Hugh Norman Bullen , born 1896 but who died as an infant
Geoffrey Hugh , born 1898 in India and colonel in the Army who married first Elizabeth Crawford and later, Nina North and settled in Kenya, where he died in 1986
Agnes' husband Hugh died of pneumonia on the 18th of March 1901 in Lanouli, Bombay. Agnes and her children must have already been in England as they were recorded at her parent's house in Wimbledon in the 1901 census. At some point soon thereafter she moved the family to their own house, 2 Thornton Hill in Wimbledon. In the 1939 register she is recorded staying with her brother Walter Selwyn at Hale Farm House in Ringwood, Hampshire (presumably to get out of London during the bombings). At some point she moved to Crow Cottage in Ringwood, perhaps to be near her brother and sister-in-law and stayed here until she died.
Death
Agnes died on the 13th June 1955 at thePark House Nursing Home in Winchester ; she was 88.
Will
Agnes' will was dated the 16th of June 1951 and in it she makes a few bequests:
- To Nina Mitchell, her daughter-in-law and wife of her son Geoffrey Hugh, a diamond crescent brooch
- To
Fanny Curtis Bryans (nèe Mitchell), her daughter, a number of rings and a portrait of the Empress Eugenie (this may have come through Hugh, her husband, as his parents appeared to have known the Empress - see family archive)
- To
Pamela Anne Murdoch Johnson (nèe Bryans), her grand-daughter, a pearl and diamond ring
Agnes also made monetary bequests toPamela , her son-in-lawHenry Murdoch Bryans and to her grand-sons Hugh William, Anthony and Simon Mitchell (all sons of her sonGeoffrey Hugh Mitchell ). The witnesses to her will were Helen A Nisbet (probably Helen Agnes Nisbet, née Macfarlane, the wife ofAgnes' brother Francis) and Amy Macfarlane, probably her niece.
Footnotes
[1] This church has since been demolished.
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Event Map 
Birth - 19 Oct 1866 - West Hampstead, Camden, London 
Census - 1871 - 28 Priory Road, Hampstead St John, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom 
Census - 1901 - 43 Church Road, Wimbledon, Merton, London, County of London, England, United Kingdom 
Census - 1911 - 2 Thornton Hill, Wimbledon, Merton, London, County of London, England, United Kingdom 
Census - 1939 - Hale Farm House, Ringwood & Fordinbridge, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom 
Residence - 1955 - Ringwood, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom 
Death - 13 Jun 1955 - Park House Nursing Home, Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S0300] FamilySearch, England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008, (familysearch.org), 1866, Agnes L Nisbet; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XSC-D4G : 1 October 2014), Agnes L Nisbet, 1866; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Hampstead, Lond.
- [S0076] Ancestry, 1939 Register, (ancestry.co.uk).
- [S0333] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1871, (familysearch.org), 1871, Nisbet; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBDH-8DH : 24 April 2019), Harry C Nisbet, 1871.
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- [S0303] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1901, (familysearch.org), 1901, Nisbet; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9XX-8GJ : 20 May 2019), Lousia Margaret Nisbet in household of Harry Curtis Nisbet, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, f.
- [S0313] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1911, (familysearch.org), 1911, Mitchell; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW8T-BBV : 8 July 2019), Agnes Mitchell, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing.
- [S0076] Ancestry, 1939 Register, (ancestry.co.uk), Walter Selywn Nisbet; The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/2399E.
- [S0302] FamilySearch, England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007, (FamilySearch.org), 1955, Agnes L Mitchell; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCD-FCVB : 4 September 2014), Agnes L Mitchell, 1955; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Winchester, Hampshire.
- [S0301] FamilySearch, England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005, (familysearch.org), 1858, Nisbet / Bruce; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2D74-PNN : 13 December 2014), Harry Curtis Nisbet, 1858; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1858, quarter 2, vol. 5A,.
- [S0402] FamilySearch, India Marriages, 1792-1948, (familysearch.org), 16 Jul 1894, Nisbet; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJR-HMC : 5 February 2020), Agnes Lockhert Nisbet in entry for Hugh McPherson Mitchel, 1894.
- [S0045] Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35684295/.
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