Barbara Benedicta HARVEY [434]

   Cause of her death was respiratory arrest, cardiac heart failure.

  General Notes:

BARBARA BENEDICTA HARVEY Barbara was born on 28th September 1910 the daughter of Gardiner Hasell and Winifred Benedicta (nee Marten) Harvey, at Shalmesford Bridge Manor, Canterbury, the home of her Grandmother, Mrs Stephen Marten. [Ref: 1910 - no. 149 births Chartham Co. Kent]. She was christened by Rev. Cyril Randolf in Chartham Church.
She and her mother travelled to Ireland in 1910 and lived at Ballycastle, Rathlin Island and Malin Hall, while her father was stationed in Aldershot. In 1915 they went to live in Cambridge and she attended the local Dame School, in 1916 (at the age of 6) she went to boarding school, St. Margaret's, Bushy, near Harrow until 1920. She spent the school holidays with cousins the Rev. & Mrs George Green at Whitfield, near Dover, whilst her parents were in India.
She left St. Margaret's in 1920 (at the age of 10) and went to Beach Court School in Walmer, Kent, where she stayed until 1924 when her parents returned from India and she went on to Rochester Grammer School as a day girl from 1924-1926. She went to France in 1926 with her Uncle and Aunt George Baskerville and lived with them in Tamaris near Toulon and attended dress making classes etc.
Her parents retired to Folkstone, Kent and she returned to live with them after travelling through Europe, mostly France, Italy and Switzerland in 1927. In 1928 she was presented at Court to King George V and Queen Mary. 1928 to 1930 were spent in Folkstone, and on 8th March 1930 she married Basil Evelyn Murray-Alston at Holy Trinity Church, Folkstone and went to live in Birmingham - 1930-31 and then to Gosforth in Northumberland. [Ref: 1930 - no. 45 marriages Elham, Co. Kent].
During World War 2 she lived in Newcastle and was an Ambulence driver with the Air Raid Patrol. In 1946 they bought Thackwood, Raughton Head, Cumberland,and sold again in 1949 when they moved to Caheroyan Park, Athenry, Co.Galway. She and Basil then retired to the Gate House, Castle Blunden, Co. Kilkenny, where Basil died. In 1964 she married the Very Rev. John Gash, Dean of Ossery and went to live at the Deanery in Kilkenny.
In 1972 John and she retired to Dublin, then Connemara and finally Rathclaren, Co Cork where John died on 29th December 1980. In October 1981she moved out to Melbourne Australia where her son and daughter lived.
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1939 Register
36 Oaklands , Gosforth U.D., Northumberland, England
Barbara BMurray-Alston28 Sep 1910Private MeansMarried

  Medical Notes:

20 Apr 2004 Barbara was cremated - Traditional Funerals, Burpengary, QLD. AU then buried in Kilkenny Ireland

  Other Records

1. Barbara and her father Gardiner.

Barbara married Basil Evelyn MURRAY-ALSTON [4621] [MRIN: 1586], son of Dr William Evelyn ALSTON B A M B. [1534] and Clara HARRISON [1535], on 8 Mar 1930 in Holy Trinity, Folkstone, Kent. UK. (Basil Evelyn MURRAY-ALSTON [4621] was born on 22 Jun 1901 in Wheathampsted, HRT, baptised on 30 Jun 1901 in Wheathampsted, HRT, died on 29 Nov 1962 in Kilkenny, Ireland and was buried in Dec 1962 in Roselawn Cemetery, Belfast, NIR.). The cause of his death was was pulmonery congestion, respiratory paralysis, bulbar palsy.

Barbara next married The Very Rev John George GASH Dean of Ossory IRL [7106] [MRIN: 2358] in 1964 in Ireland. (The Very Rev John George GASH Dean of Ossory IRL [7106] was born on 11 Jan 1912 in Killeagh Cork IRL and died on 29 Dec 1980 in Bandon Cork IRL.)