John Dare ABELL [20649]

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John Dare Abell
Birth Date:8 Jun 1921
Baptism Date:30 Nov 1921
Baptism Place:Kobe, Japan
Event Type:Baptism
Father:John Julius Dare Abell
Mother:Vesta Abell
RG 33: Foreign Registers and Returns, 1627-1960

John aged 7mths is recorded as a passenger on the Empress of Asia from Yokohama Japan to Victoria British Columbia arriving 23 January 1922 enroute to London. He is described as born in Japan of Scotch (sic) ancestry religion Presbyterian .
Ancestry.

John is listed in the 1940 Navy List Royal Marines as a temporary lieutenant.

John aged 27 his wife Valerie aged 28 and son Geoffrey Dare Abell aged 2 are recorded as passengers on the Asturias departing Southampton 26 October 1948 for Sydney NSW. John is described as a shipping clerk, his address in Sydney is C/o Hurst Cowan Rd St Ives Sydney.
Ancestry

John married Pamela Dawn [23303] [MRIN: 8364]. (Pamela Dawn [23303] was born in 1928.)

John next married Valerie Marguerite C HURST [23299] [MRIN: 7407], daughter of Leslie Constant HURST [23300] and Margaret Rosalind KNOX [23301], Jun Qtr 1945 in Maidstone KEN. (Valerie Marguerite C HURST [23299] was born in 1920 in Tientsin China and died in Australia.)