Dr William Evelyn ALSTON B A M B. [1534]

  General Notes:

When William was 6 months old he travelled back to England on board the "Rifleman" which took 96 days.

Alston William Evelyn. Adm. at Clare, Mar 27 1886. (S and H of William Evelyn, M.D. late Army Medical Service. B. Feb. 15 1868) School, South Eastern College, Ramsgate. Matric. Michs. 1886; BA 1889; MB and BC 1893; MD 1900. At Guys Hospital, London. Lieut., R.A.M.C. 1909; Lieut. Col. (retired). In general practice; late medical superintendent of the Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Birtley. Married and had issue. Of Innhams Wood, Crowborough, Sussex. Brother of Arthur F (1891). (St Lawrence Reg; Medical Directory 1936).

After he attended Clare College, according to the General Medical Council, 44 Hallam St, London W1N 6AE, he was registered on 8th August 1893 and he lived at the following addresses;
1. 1893 - 22 Bentinck St, Cavendish Square West, 108 Denmark Hill, S.E.
2. 1914 - West Malling, Kent
3. 1920 - C/- Holt & Co, 44 Charing Cross S.W.1 1 The Bungalow, Prisons Hospital, Bitley, Co.Durham.
4. 1921 - C/- E.Fawssett Esq. Overdene, Riding Mill, Northumberland.
5. 1922 - Wribbenhall, Bewdley, Worcestshire.
6. 1931 - Beaulieu, Crowborough, Sussex.
7. 1947 - Denefield, Crowborough, Sussex.

He worked for some time at Guy's Hospital, in London and after he married Clara he went into private practice in Wheathampsted.
He joined the R.A.M.C. in 1914 and served in France and at the Base hospital in Le Havre, attaining the rank of Lt Col. He divorced Clara, by arrangement in 1919 and went to work in Chester-le-Street, Durham. He married, for the second time Mary Harvey in 1919 and eventually retired in 1930 and went to live in Crowborough where he died, he was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Charing cemetery gardens.

THOMAS WILLIAM JESSHOPE, Killing - murder, 26th April 1910.
. . . . . WILLIAM EVELYN ALSTON , physician and surgeon, 108, Denmark Hill. On March 29, having been called, I got to the Camberwell Empire Music Hall at 12.15 or 12.20 a.m. I found deceased lying dead against the wall of the pit with a wound on his left side between the third and fourth ribs. On the same day I made a post-mortem examination and found the entrance wound was about 1 1/2 in. long and about 3 1/2 in. deep. The weapon had penetrated the pericardium and the right ventricle of the heart. The cause of death was sudden and more or less rapid syncope from the haemorrhage caused by the wound. Assuming that the man had a coat, waistcoat, and a shirt on fairly considerable force must have been used. The wound could have been caused by a knife of this description (produced).
Cross-examined. I suppose there was a certain amount of bad luck in his hitting between the two ribs, but there is a fairly wide space between them. The knife did not touch the sternum. It would be difficult to give a blow with this knife without inflicting injuries. I cannot say I have made a study of questions of insanity. I think that epilepsy running through two or three different generations is liable to lead to mental deterioration. . . . . .
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1939 Register
Bealieu , Uckfield R.D., Sussex, England.
William E Alston 15 Feb 1868 married Physician (Retired)

Alston William Evelyn of Denefield London Road Crowborough Sussex died 13 April 1958 at Pembury Hospital Pembury Kent. Probate London 23 June 1958 to Mary Anne Alston widow and Doris Evelyn Alston spinster.
Effects L24647 2s 8d. Resealed Sydney 20 Mar 1959
National Probate Calendar.

  Research Notes:

Williams birth ref:1868 - no. 526 births Sydney.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, Waterton Lodge Milton Rd Woolston Ham. William is recorded as a son aged 3 born NSW

2. William Evelyn Alston.
As an infant and in old age.

William married Clara HARRISON [1535] [MRIN: 499], daughter of Thomas Hugh HARRISON of Rochdale LAN [1537] and Elizabeth Ann McDOWALL [4851], on 1 Nov 1893 in St Marys Durham. (Clara HARRISON [1535] was born on 3 Jul 1864 in Rochdale Lancashire Eng, died on 21 Sep 1931 in Folkstone, KEN and was buried on 25 Sep 1931 in St.Martin's, Shorncliffe, Kent.)

William next married Mary Ann HARVEY [2514] [MRIN: 821] on 7 Apr 1920 in Kings Norton Registery Office Birmingham. (Mary Ann HARVEY [2514] was born on 28 Nov 1874, died on 3 Jan 1959 and was buried in Crowborough, SSX.)