Charles William

Charles William Barkley (1824-1885) married Mary Exley (1823-1875)

Charles William married Mary Exley at St Luke's, Chelsea, in 1847. Mary was the daughter of Richard and Mary Exley. Charles William was a clerk at the Bank of England.

1. Mary Barkley (1848-1875) – never married.

2. Alice Helen Barkley (1850-1906) married John George Marks (1838-1903) in Croydon in 1888.

John George Marks was the son of John Isaac Marks (1802-1877) and Elizabeth Pally Harrison (1804-1868). Alice and John George had no children but he had children from a previous marriage. He was an importer of sherry.

3. Edith Barkley (1858-1932) married William Arthur Winton (1856-1932) in Beddington in 1881.

William Arthur Winton was a tea merchant, the son of Frederick Charles Winton (1825-1866) and Mary Dunk (1827-1900). Frederick Charles Winton was farmer in Yalding, Kent. William and Edith’s promising son, Harold Barkley Winton, died flying a plane in France in the First World War. He had joined the Royal Flying Corps, the air arm of the British Army and precursor to the Royal Air Force. The pilot causality rate was high; Harold Barkley died just a few weeks after obtaining his wings. The war most likely contributed to Harold’s three sisters never finding husbands. It looks like they might have lived together in East Sussex, which is where their deaths are recorded.

3.1 Mary Winton (1882-1969)

Mary Winton never married. The 1939 census has her living on private means in a diocesan house in Carshalton. At the time of her death she was residing in Battle, East Sussex, almost certainly living with her two sisters.

3.2 Hester Winton (1885-1974)

Hester Winton never married. In 1939 she was resident in Battle working as Poultry and Eggs Saleswoman.

3.3 Edith Hilda Winton (1886-1970)

Edith Winton never married. She trained as a nurse at St Thomas's Hospital in London. In 1939 she was living in Battle with her sister, Hester.

3.4 Harold Barkley Winton (1893-1918) – never married

https://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/23252/

4. John Ralph Barkley (1860-1915) married Louisa Grace Marion Vizard (1869-1948) in Colombo in 1899.

Louisa Grace Marion Vizard was the daughter of Rev Henry Brougham Vizard (1825-1874), Rector of Spetisbury, and Henrietta Low Shakespear (1835-1909).

John Ralph Barkley died in Ceylon in 1915. Louisa and their three children returned to the UK in 1919

4.1 Alice Grace Mary Barkley (1900-1976) married Charles Bevan Carew Anderson (1894-1979) in New Forest, Hampshire, in 1924.

Colonel Charles Bevan Carew Anderson was the son of Charles Alexander Anderson (1857-1940) and Ellen Catherine Russell (died 1956). He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in both world wars and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Charles Bevan Carew Anderson came from an Irish land-owning family and in 1943 he inherited a property known as Grace Dieu, near Waterford. There are further details on the website below (scroll to near the bottom of the page).

http://landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/128-anderson-of-grace-dieu.html

Charles and Alice divorced in 1945. Alice later changed her name by deed poll to Shaw and lived with Arthur Purves Shaw (1895-1952). Captain Arthur Purves Shaw RN was the son of Henry Frederick Shaw (1865-1932) and Agnes Mary Black (1861-1937). He was awarded a CBE in 1942.

4.2 Joan Frances Barkley (1902-1988) married Clifford Harry Standing Cooper (1909-1988) in Andover in 1943.

Clifford Harry Standing Cooper was the son of Lawrence Cooper and Nellie Pinder. He was a civil engineer. He was born in Yorkshire and he and his wife both died in Yorkshire but in the early 1950s they were living on the Falkland Islands. There are records of Joan Frances travelling between the UK and Gibraltar prior to her marriage.

4.3 Robert John Barkley (1911-1986) married Caroline Dorothea Shepherd (1914-1983) in Oudh (Uttar Pradesh) in 1939.

Caroline Dorothea Shepherd was the daughter of physician and surgeon James Hay Shepherd (1878-1915) and Cecilia Dorothea Morris (1875-1943). She met her future husband when working as a nurse in India, treating soldiers who had been fighting in Burma.

Major Robert John Barkley served with the 10th Gurkha Rifles and then became a tea planter in Assam, India. He and his family returned to the UK in 1960 to live in Devon.

5. Annie Raikes Barkley (1865-1938) married Sydney Mitchell Cooke (1860-1923) in Croydon in 1888.

Sydney Mitchell Cooke was the son of Edward Cooke (1822-1871) and his wife Susannah (born 1820). He followed in his father's footsteps becoming a stockbroker.

5.1 Stephen Barkley Cooke (1889-1915)

The Shrewsbury House Prep School Roll of Service website records that in 1909 Stephen Barkley Cooke travelled to Ceylon and when the war started he joined the Ceylon Mounted Rifles Corps. He died in Ceylon on the 4th of June 1915 - possibly as a result of sunstroke.

5.2 Judith Barkley Cooke (1891-1969)

Judith Barkley Cooke never married. She was a Staff Nurse in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve and then practised as a physiotherapist. She was working in Southampton and on the Isle of Wight before returning to live in Surrey. The 1939 census records her living in Carshalton with her younger sister employed as a masseuse in a hospital, probably Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton.

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4947412

5.3 Margaret Barkley Cooke (1897-1985)

Margaret Barkley Cooke never married. In the 1939 census she is living with her sister in Carshalton and working as a clerk at the Bank of England.

6. Georgina Trevor Barkley (1869-1944) married Reginald Arthur Hope (1867-1908) in Badulla, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Reginald Arthur Hope was born in South Africa the son of underwriter and ship owner Samuel Thomas Hope (1840-1906) and Henriette Clementine Daumas (1844-1898).

Reginald was a tea planter in Ceylon. Some of the tea estates that he managed are listed below.

http://www.historyofceylontea.com/tea-planters/planters-registry/r-a-hope--11116419.html

Later Reginald and Georgina settled in Devon. They had one son who was born in Ceylon.

6.1 Arthur Trevor Hope (1895-1967) married Margaret Cecilia Sullivan Edgcome (1901-1979) in Newton Abbot in 1925.

Margaret Cecilia Sullivan Edgcome was the daughter of Rev George Sullivan Edgcome (1870-1923) and Cecilia Annetta Horsfield (1870-1920).

Arthur and Margaret divorced and Arthur then married Rosemary Walter (born 1912) in Newton Abbot in 1940.

Captain Arthur Trevor Hope served in the British Army and the Royal Air Force.