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Family of Donald Harvey Attfield and Elsa Anna Iole Herkomer

Husband: Donald Harvey Attfield (1866-1908)
Wife: Elsa Anna Iole Herkomer (1876-1938)
Marriage 14 Jun 1899 Parish Church, Bushey, Herts
Witnesses 14 Jun 1899 Hubert Herkomer, John Attfield

Husband: Donald Harvey Attfield

Name: Donald Harvey Attfield
Sex: Male
Father: John Attfield (1835-1911)
Mother: Martha Harvey (1841-1917)
Birth 9 Jun 1866 Islington, Middlesex
Birth fact 1866 (age 0) Birth: 1866 Sept Qtr, Islington, 1b/200
Education 1884 (age 17-18) Peterhouse Coll, Cambridge
Education 1887 (age 20-21) B.A. Cantab
Occupation Medical Officer of Health, Watford
Occupation Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Egyptian Government, Suez
Emigration 12 Feb 1891 (age 24) from Arr. New York from Liverpool on board "City of New York"; occupation = doctor
Occupation 14 Jun 1899 (age 33) Physician, "Ashland", Watford, Herts (on marriage cert.)
Occupation 1904 (age 37-38) Director & Principal Medical Officer of the Suez Quarantine Office
Residence 1908 (age 41-42) Ashlands, Watford, Herts (on will)
Death 23 Mar 1908 (age 41) San Remo, Italy
Will 1 May 1908 (age 41) Probate, London Fol.689, to Elsa Anna Iole Attfield, widow (£1749-15s)

Wife: Elsa Anna Iole Herkomer

Name: Elsa Anna Iole Herkomer
Sex: Female
Father: Hubert Herkomer (1849-1914)
Mother: Anna Caroline Ida Weise (c. 1840-1883)
Birth 14 Apr 1876 Bushey, Hertfordshire
Baptism 22 Jun 1876 (age 0) Bushey, Hertfordshire
Birth fact 1876 (age 0) 1876 Jun Qtr, Watford, 3a/414
Census 1881 (age 4-5) Visiting Thomas Griffiths, Llanrhydd, Wales
Census 1891 (age 14-15) Living with parents
Residence 1899 (age 22-23) Address at marriage, "Lululaund", Bushey, Herts
Will 1911 (age 34-35) Mentioned in Prof. John Attfield's will
Death fact 1938 (age 61-62) Consular deaths 1936-40, Boulogne, Vol.32 p.97 (aged 62)
Death 25 Jun 1938 (age 62) Hotel Imperial, Boulogne sur Mer, France
Burial 1938 Bushey Churchyarrd

Note on Husband: Donald Harvey Attfield (1)

Peterhouse College, Cambridge (B.A. Cantab, 1887)

Physician. Medical Officer of Health, Watford

Later Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Egyptian Government, Suez

Served as Director & Principal Medical Officer of the Suez Quarantine Office (award of Imperial Ottoman Order of the Osmanieh, Fourth Class) - London Gazette 7.6.1904, page 3

Author: A Private Journal in Egypt ... 1894 ... 1895, etc., Spottiswoode & Co.: London, 1895 (printed for private circulation)

Note on Husband: Donald Harvey Attfield (2)

ATTFIELD Donald Harvey of Ashlands Watford Hertfordshire died 23 March 1908; Probate London 1 May to Elsa Anna Iole Attfield widow. Effects £1749 15s.

Note on Wife: Elsa Anna Iole Herkomer

Mentioned in "Sow the Wind" by Peggy Larken, including a description of her death (p.179)

 

MACDONALD Elsa Ann Iolo (sic) of Villa Betaana Saint Veran Cagnes sur Mer France (wife of Charles Edward Macdonald) died 25 June 1938 at Hotel Imperial Boulogne sur Mer; Probate London 26 September to the said Charles Edward Macdonald of no occupation Marion Stewart Bassett spinster and Philip Arthur George Boole general merchant. Effects £8471 3s 7d. Resealed Hong Kong 9 March 1939. Resealed Shanghai 20 March 1939.