Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Hugh McPherson Mitchell

Resident Engineer, Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company & Civil Engineer (Railways)
Male 1863 - 1901  (37 years)

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  • Name Hugh McPherson Mitchell 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth 24 May 1863  88 Sloane Street, Chelsea, Kensington & Chelsea, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Occupation Civil Engineer (Railways) 
    Residence Oct 1884  Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Occupation Between Jul 1897 and Mar 1901  Lanauli, Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, India Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Resident Engineer, Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company 
    Cause Of Death Pneumonia  [5] 
    Death 18 Mar 1901  Lanauli, Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, India Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2021 

    Father Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell, GCMG
              b. 25 Oct 1836, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 7 Dec 1899, Singapore, Singapore Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Fanny Oakley Rice
              b. 16 Sep 1836, Chatham, Kent, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 3 Jan 1885, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 17 Jul 1862  British Embassy, Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7] 

    Wife Agnes Lockhart Nisbet
              b. 19 Oct 1866, West Hampstead, Camden, London Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Jun 1955, Park House Nursing Home, Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 16 Jul 1894  St Andrew's, Khandwa, Central Provinces, India Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Age at Marriage Hugh was 31 years old - Agnes was 27 years old. 
    Children 
     1. Fanny Curtis "Fay" Mitchell
              b. 27 Mar 1895, Khandwa, Central Provinces, India Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 3 Mar 1982, Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     2. Hugh Norman Bullen Mitchell
              b. 1896, Kingston, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Aug 1898 (Age 2 years)
     3. Lieut-Col. Geoffrey Hugh Mitchell
              b. 27 Nov 1898, India Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 25 Jul 1986, Malindi, Kenya Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Hugh McPherson1 Mitchell was born on the 24th of May 1863 in Chelsea, the only child of Charles Mitchell and Fanny Rice. He attended Loretto School between October 1876 and March 1881.

      Career
      Hugh had a (sadly short) career as a civil engineer: he was an Assistant on the surveys of the Orange Free State Branch Railway, and, from 1883 to 1886, an Assistant on the construction of the Ladysmith Extension of the Natal Government Railways. He was then employed on the inspection of bridge-superstructure and other railway materials for India and Natal, and partly on the supervision of the London and Southwark Subway Company's works at London Bridge. Early in 1888 he was appointed an Assistant Engineer in the service of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, where he remained until his premature death in 1901.

      Family Life
      Hugh married Agnes Lockhart Nisbet on the 16th July 1894; he was 31 and she was 28. They married at St Andrew's church2 in Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh and had three children:

      1. Fanny Curtis, born in 1895 in India and who married Henry Murdoch Bryans
      2. Hugh Norman Bullen, born 1896 but who died as an infant
      3. Geoffrey Hugh, born 1898 in India and colonel in the Army who married Elizabeth Crawford and later, Nina North and settled in Kenya

      It's not clear why they married in India as Agnes' family seems to have been London-based: Agnes' father (Harry) had been born in India but was a solicitor in London and Agnes and all her siblings were born in in the UK.

      Death
      Hugh McPherson Mitchell died of pneumonia on the 18th of March 1901 in Lanouli, Bombay, leaving his widow Agnes to survive him for 54 years.

      Footnotes
      [1] McPherson was the middle name of Fanny's father.
      [2] See Indian Daily News, 24 July 1894

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 24 May 1863 - 88 Sloane Street, Chelsea, Kensington & Chelsea, London Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Oct 1884 - Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Resident Engineer, Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company - Between Jul 1897 and Mar 1901 - Lanauli, Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, India Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 18 Mar 1901 - Lanauli, Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, India Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0094] Ancestry, England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, (ancestry.co.uk), 1863, Volume 1a, page 223.

    2. [S0300] FamilySearch, England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008, (familysearch.org), 1863, Hugh McPherson Mitchell; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:261N-81X : 1 October 2014), Hugh Mcpherson Mitchell, 1863; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registratio.

    3. [S0277] Unknown, Bullen Pedigree, (Family Archive; D_Unknown_Bullen) (Reliability: 1).

    4. [S0384] Ancestry, UK, Civil Engineer Lists, 1818-1930, (ancestry.co.uk), 1886, Hugh McPherson Mitchell.

    5. [S0037] Grace's Guide, (www.gracesguide.co.uk), https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Hugh_McPherson_Mitchell.

    6. [S0387] FamilySearch, India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948, (familysearch.org), 19 Mar 1901, Hugh McPherson Mitchell; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGTZ-X2T : 5 February 2020), Hugh McPherson Mitchell, 1901.

    7. [S0274] Edward Walford, Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, (London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1899), Page 722.

    8. [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.

    9. [S0045] Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35684295/.