Paymaster Henry DUBERLY — 8th Hussars
Birth & early life
Born on the 28th of July 1822 at Gaynes Hall, Huntingdonshire, the son of Sir James Duberly and his second wife, Etheldred [sic?], daughter of Charles St. Barbe Esq., of Lymington, Hampshire.
James Duberly [father]
Henry Duberly's father, James Duberly, had been an officer in the Wiltshire Militia and Captain in the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry, High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1804, and M.P. for Devizes in 1832.
James Duberly learned tailoring from his father, George, and secured contracts from the Crown to make British uniforms in his textile mills. His wealth was such that he owned 5 mansions across England.
When Sir James died in 1832, he left the vast majority of his estate to his son James (only child of his first marriage) and gave only modest annual allowances to his other children, including Henry.]
[PB: Check these pages -
http:/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kingsman/kingsman/england/indiI11675.html
http:/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kingsman/kingsman/england/indiI11219.html
His eldest step-brother, James, by his father's first wife, Rebecca Howard, served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo with the 11th Hussars.
Another brother, George, became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 77th Foot.
Service
Ensign in the 35th Foot: 28th of September 1839.
Lieutenant, 35th Foot: 12th of April 1842.
Lieutenant, 6th Foot: 13th of March 1846.
Paymaster, 8th Hussars: 12th of November 1847.
Marriage
Marriage registered
Henry Duberly married Frances Isabella Locke, March Quarter 1850, Alresford.
On the 21st of February 1850, he married Frances Isabella Locke, daughter of Wadham Locke, Esq., J.P. of Rowdeford House, near Bronham, Wiltshire. He was 27 years of age at this time and she 20. The ceremony was conducted by the Revd. Henry Paddon, Vicar of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
(His brother, George, married his wife's sister, Katherine Powell Locke.)
Roger Fenton's photograph of the Duberlys, 1855
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At the age of just 25, his wife (widely known as "Fanny", and to the troops as "Jubilee"), accompanied him to the Crimea and later to India for the Mutiny campaign. She was a keen horsewoman, and travelled widely. She published two remarkable books on her experiences under the titles of Journal kept during the Russian War (London, 1855) and Campaigning Experiences in Rajapootana and Central India during the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-58 (London, 1859).
The first includes an important eyewitness account of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
More on Fanny Duberly, including further links, here...
Honorary Major, 8th Hussars: 1st of January 1860.
Staff Paymaster, No. 4 District, at Warley, Essex: 1st of April 1878.
Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel and on to half-pay: 1st of October 1881.
Campaign service
Paymaster Duberley served the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and the Tchernya, affairs of the Bulganak and McKenzie's Farm and the Siege and fall of Sebastopl. (Medal and four Clasps.)
He also served in Rajapootana and Central India in 1858-59, including the capture of Kotah, re-occupation of Chundaree, battle of Kotah ke Serai, capture of Gwalior, actions of Koondye and Boordah. (Medal and Clasp.)
Medals
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, the Turkish Medal and the Mutiny Medal with clasp for Central India.
1881 Census
Warley Villa, Great Warley, Essex
The 1881 Census shows him as a Major in the Army Pay Department, aged 58 years, born at Gt. Staughton, Huntingdonshire, with his wife, Francis J., aged 51 years, born at Rowde, Wiltshire.
Three Domestic Staff are shown in the household.
Life after service
Death & burial
Deaths registered
Henry Duberly, aged 68, March Quarter 1890, Cheltenham.
Died at "St. Clair", The Park, near Cheltenham, on the 19th of January 1890, aged 68 years.
In his will he is shown as being "formerly of the parish of Great Warley, Essex". He left his personal estate of £1,687 to his widow, Frances Isabella.
Death registered
Frances I. Duberly, aged 73, December Quarter 1902, Cheltenham.
She herself also died at "St. Clair", The Park, near Cheltenham, on the 19th of November 1902, at the age of 73.
They were buried in the same grave in the parish churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul at Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
[PB: Curiously, the church mentions Frances but not Henry.]
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The grave of Frances and Henry Duberly is situated to the right of, and close to, the arched doorway of the church entrance [right of photograph].
Map of churchyard: http://leckhamptonlhs.weebly.com/st-peters-burial-registers-1914-39.html
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[PB: Poor photograph. Find a better one.]
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The inscription on the erected tombstone reads:
LT COLONEL HENRY DUBERLY,
8TH HUSSARS, A.P.D.
DIED 19TH JANUARY 1890,
AGED 64.
"ONLY GOODNIGHT BELOVED NOT FAREWELL."ALSO
FRANCES ISABELLA HIS WIFE
DIED 19TH NOVBR 1902
AGED 73.NEITHER ANGELS, NOR
PRINCIPALITIES, NOR POWERS
SHALL BE ABLE TO
SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE
OF GOD, WHICH IS IN CHRIST
JESUS OUR LORD.
References & acknowledgements
Additional registrations of deaths and marriages kindly provided by Chris Poole.