See also

Family of William Alvara Humphrey and Elizabeth Simms

Husband: William Alvara Humphrey

  • Name:

  • William Alvara Humphrey

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Alvara Humphrey (1847-1922)

  • Mother:

  • Sarah Ann Cutts (1843-1932)

  • Note 1:

  • Born 8th Nov., 1876, at York, Engd. ; oldest son of Alvara Humphrey, of York. Educ. Woodhouse Grove School, nr. Leeds, and SA Coll., Cape Town ; Bronze Medal and Melville prize for Geology at SA Coll. 1902; m. Oct., 1906, Esther, d. of late J. Fleetwood Churchill.

    From Who's Who of South Africa, 1911

  • Note 2:

  • Author of the following studies (among others):

    The geology of the country south of Piet Retief: An explanation of sheet no. 68 (Piet Retief), The Govt. Printer (South Africa, 1931)

    The geology of the country surrounding Vryheid: An explanation of sheet no. 102 (Vryheid), The Govt. Printer (South Africa, 1932)

  • Birth:

  • 8 Nov 1876

  • York, Yorkshire

  • Baptism:

  • 5 Dec 1876 (age 0)

  • York, Yorkshire

  • Birth fact:

  • 1876 (age 0)

  • 1876 Dec Qtr, York, 9d/56

  • Census (1):

  • 1881 (age 4-5)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1891 (age 14-15)

  • Living with parents

  • Emigration:

  • 1894 (age 17-18)

  • from Emigrated to South Africa

  • Occupation (1):

  •  

  • Geologist

  • Occupation (2):

  • 1903 (age 26-27)

  • Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of London

  • Education:

  •  

  • Woodhouse Grove School, Leeds, & Univ. of Munich

  • Death:

  • 1 Feb 1945 (age 68)

  • Cape Town, South Africa

Wife: Elizabeth Simms

  • Name:

  • Elizabeth Simms

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

Note on Husband: William Alvara Humphrey (1)

Born 8th Nov., 1876, at York, Engd. ; oldest son of Alvara Humphrey, of York. Educ. Woodhouse Grove School, nr. Leeds, and SA Coll., Cape Town ; Bronze Medal and Melville prize for Geology at SA Coll. 1902; m. Oct., 1906, Esther, d. of late J. Fleetwood Churchill.

From Who's Who of South Africa, 1911

Note on Husband: William Alvara Humphrey (2)

Author of the following studies (among others):

The geology of the country south of Piet Retief: An explanation of sheet no. 68 (Piet Retief), The Govt. Printer (South Africa, 1931)

The geology of the country surrounding Vryheid: An explanation of sheet no. 102 (Vryheid), The Govt. Printer (South Africa, 1932)