Added 26.12.12. Minor edits 11.4.14, 18.4.14. New information added about his family background, 19.2.2015.
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Assistant Surgeon John Wild HULSEBERG — 8th Hussars
Also recorded as "Hulzaberg"
Birth & early life
Born in London on the 10th of March 1832 and christened in St Saviour's Church at Southwark on the 3rd of June 1832, the son of Carston [PB: Carsten?] Hulseberg and his wife Elizabeth Wild. Notice his middle name is his mother's maiden name.
Carston Hulseberg [father]
[PB: Carston Hulseberg is likely to have been of German origin, but I have not confirmed any details of his life.The death of a Carston Hulseberg is recorded in the German Lutheran Church, Savoy, London, in 1831.
In addition, a "Carston Hulseberg" wrote a will, dated 23rd of January 1789, leaving everything to his brother, Bernard, a "sugar baker" in Wapping. The basic will is pre-printed with additions in pen. (Note the anchor emblem top right, "Pray God Preserve Our Fleet", which presumably a standard-issue will-form for sailors?). The handwriting is a little awkward and hesitant, with mispellings ("Jannuary") and amendments. The occasion for writing the will appears to be because Carston was setting out on an East Indiaman ["Indieman"], the Nottingham ["Nothingham"?], commanded by Captain Anderson.
But is this the same Carston Hulseberg? Perhaps not, unless he was quite old when he married Elizabeth Wild on the 26th of September 1822 in St Saviour, Southwark (London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Saviour, Southwark, Register of marriages, P92/SAV, Item 3049/001). Presumably their ages are recorded? Find out.
I have seen a ref online to The Hulseberg Family of Hanover and London, GC Moss (Compiler), 1994. I have not located a copy, so do not know if it is relevant. The reference to Hanover may be significant. Henry Kauntze is another Light Brigade soldier whose family originated in Hanover.]
![Carston Hulseberg's will, 23rd of January 1789. Possibly at the start of a voyage on the East Indiaman Nottingham [?]. Click to enlarge.](http://chargeofthelightbrigade.com/allmen/allmenH/allmenH_8H/hulseberg_j_8H/hulseberg_carston_will_23jan1789_2to3.jpg "Carston Hulseberg's will, 23rd of January 1789. Possibly at the start of a voyage on the East Indiaman Nottingham [?]")
Carston Hulseberg's will, 23rd of January 1789 — possibly drawn up at the start of a voyage on the East Indiaman Nottingham
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Marriage of Carsten Hulseberg and Elizabeth Wild, in St Saviour, Southwark Church, 26th of September 1822, in the presence of John Wild, Elizabeth Wild, Ann Hulseberg, George Christian Hulseberg, [illeg.], Maria Downing.
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Carston Hulseberg's death in 1831 recorded in the German Lutheran Church, Savoy, London.
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[PB: Several children of this marriage are recorded on a Kemp family history site:
1. Elizabeth Wild Hulseberg, b. 9 Sep 1824, d. date unknown
2. Ann Wild Hulseberg, b. 1826, d. date unknown
3. Mary Ann Wild Hulseberg, b. 1827, d. date unknown
4. Ann Hulseberg, b. 1829, d. date unknown
5. John Wild Hulseberg, b. 1830, d. 30 May 1831 (Age 1 years)
+ 6. Martha Ann Wild Hulseberg, b. Aft 1823, d. date unknown
According to EJB, JWH was born in March 1832. So if the Carston Hulseberg who died in 1831 is John's father, John was born posthumously.
But according to the Kemp family site, John Wild Hulseberg was born 1830 and died 20 May 1831, aged 1 year. Did they have another son, whom they named in memory of the first? This seems unlikely since the first JWH would still have been alive when the second was born. Follow this up.>
See below for a reference to "Elizabeth Wild Asarco, of Bordighera, Italy, widow", presumably his eldest sister.
There are a number of references in Censuses to a Mary Ann Hulseberg, living in south London. ]
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[PB: In 1841 John Hulseberg appears to be boarding at a small dame school in Camberwell, south-east London:]
1841 Census
Havil Street, St Giles Camberwell
Elizabeth Gerson, 55, Governess
Mary Patterson, 16, Teacher.
Fanny Bracker, 9, Pupil.
Jane Bentley, 9, Pupil.
John Hulseberg, 9, Pupil.
Edwin Bracker, 7, Pupil.
John Bracker, 6, Pupil.
Mary Suver [?], 47, Family Servant.
All were born outside of the county. [PB]
Studied at the University College, London, from where he obtained the Diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Service
At the time of his entering the Army his address was shown as 28, Southampton Street, Camberwell, London.
Acting Assistant Surgeon (Staff) and Assistant Surgeon in the 8th Hussars on the 14th of December 1854.
Campaign service
Assistant-Surgeon Hulseberg served with the 8th Hussars in the Eastern campaign from the 10th of April 1855, including the battle of the Tchernaya and the Siege and fall of Sebastopol. (Medal and Clasp.)
[PB: Is the following a quotation, or EJB's paraphrase? Sources?]
John Hulseberg was involved in a Court-of-Enquiry in October of 1855, following a punishment parade called to inflict fifty lashes on a Private Travers [ 1075 William Travers, 8th Hussars]
After 23 strokes had been given the man fainted and after examining him Assistant Surgeon Hulseberg ordered that punishment should cease.
The Adjutant (Cornet Robert Harding) threw cold water over Travers and he came round.
Repeating his order that he should be taken down, he was then told by Cornet Harding that he should speak to Colonel de Salis first.
This he did, and on being asked by the Colonel if the man had come round replied that "he had, but if the punishment continued the man would faint again after a few strokes."
The Commanding Officer then said that the man could not be taken down and put up again and ordered the lashing to continue, with the result that Surgeon Hulseberg had predicted.
He reported the matter to Surgeon Augustus Purefoy Lockwood, and, following the Court-of-Enquiry, and via Brigadier General John Lawrenson (Commanding the Cavalry Brigade), an order was issued that:
"The Commander-of the-Forces, having considered the proceedings, desires that you [PB: who?] will explain to Lieutenant-Colonel De Salis, in the presence of the officers commanding the regiments of the Hussar Brigade, the extreme indiscretion of his conduct on the occasion referred to.
At such a time the opinion of the Medical officer on duty must have its full weight, and that no corporal punishment should be inflicted, or continued, without his full sanction...
The Commander of the Forces believes that this notice of the grave indiscretion of which Lieutenant-Colonel de Salis has been guilty, will be sufficient to mark his opinion of the proceedings and to impress upon the Lieutenant-Colonel the necessity of exercising his command with prudence — as well as with firmness...
In mitigation Colonel de Salis said he only ordered the continuing of the punishment "after Surgeon Hulseberg had informed me that the man was quite alright now", and that when he [the Medical officer] had recommended that the punishment should cease, the only reason he could assign for so doing was that "the man would faint again if it was still proceeded with."
"I persevered with the punishment because I considered that this opinion did not justify me in stopping a punishment which had been approved by the Lieutenant-General. Mr. Hulseberg is a very young medical officer."
[PB: There is a photocopy of the report, which is in long hand and not always legible, in the archive. For more on this event, see De Salis's record.]
Assistant Surgeon in the 1st Foot: 14th of July 1857.
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Marriage
On the 14th of November 1863, he married Mina Clara Reid, daughter of Doctor Stanborough [PB: Stanbrough?].
The officiating priest was the Revd Alex Taylor and the witnesses were Dr and Mrs Stanborough [PB: Stanbrough?].
[PB: Had she been married before, hence "Reid"? When was she born? Calculations based on stated age in Censuses gives various years 1841-6.
According to a transcription on the RootsWeb website, the Times of India, in a section entitled "Domestic Occurrences" detailing marriages in 1863, reported:
HULSEBERG — STANBROUGH, Nov 14th [1863] at Kamptee by the Rev. Alexander Taylor, M.A., John Wild Hulseberg, Esq. H.M.'s the Royal Regt to Mina Clara Reid, only daughter of Henry Stanbrough, Esq.
[Source: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/1999-06/0929190105 (accessed 20.2.2015). Kamptee, then and now an important military centre, is close to Nagpur, in the middle of India.]
Had she been married before, hence "Reid"?
According to FindMyPast:
Mina Hulseberg born 1866 in Chhindwara, Bengal. [Chhindwara is only about 100 miles from Kamptee.]
Mina Hulseberg born 1867 died "Next Rochester, Kent, England." [date?]
Presumably she was the daughter of JWH and Mina Hulseberg?
According to JWH's gravestone (see below), and other sources, the couple had at least five sons:
Harold [usually spelled Harrold] Edward [sic? b. registration says Edwin]
b. Aldershot, birth registered in the July Quarter 1875 in the Farnham District
d. South African War, 1st March 1900.
Frederick Walter
shot in Manilla, 1st August 1st 1900.
[PB: Shot in Manilla? Was in the US Army?]Herbert Edwin Hulseberg.
Online family history sources say he was the third son, and give his dates as:
b. Oct 16 1870 — Colaba, Bombay, India.
m. Hilda Mary Glass (daughter of late Major Charles Faulknor Glass) Apr 26 1901.
d. Feb 1 1948 — 96, Wells Road, Bath, Somerset England.
Emil Carten
[PB: surely a transcription error for Carston or Carsten, like his father?]
d. in Canada, 13 Feb. 1907.
Francis Alexander
d. in South Africa, Aug. 15th 1913.
[PB: note that JWH died soon after the death of of his sons Harold and Frederick.]
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Surgeon in the Royal Artillery: 3rd of June 1864.
Surgeon Major (Staff): 4th of October 1867.
Brigade-Surgeon: 27th of November 1879.
Retired, and on to half-pay: 27th of July 1881.
Medals
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish Medal.
Life after service
[PB, Feb. 2015: According to an announcement in the London Standard, 25 February 1885, JWH was living at that time at 2, Elmsdale-villas, Buckland-hill, Maidstone, Kent. (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18850225/002/0007). He was acting as executor of an Elizabeth Thomas's will. Note the presence of a fellow-executor, Elizabeth Wild Asarco, of Bordighera, Italy, widow", presumably his eldest sister.
He was listed in the electoral register for Maidstone in 1891.]
1891 Census
13, Ashford Road, Maidstone, Kent
John W Hulseberg, Head, 58, Army Officer — Brigade Surgeon [illeg.], born London.
Mine Hulseberg, Wife, 45, b. India.
Herbert Hulseberg, Son, 20, Army Officer — Lieutenant of Militia, b. Bombay, India.
Alice Hulseberg, Daughter, 18, b. Kirkee, India.
Harrold Hulseberg, Son, 15, b. Aldershot, Hants.
Elizabeth Jarvis, 42, Domestic Servant, Cook, b. Woolwich, Kent, England.
Ada Hart, 17, Housemaid, b. Maidstone, Kent.
[PB, February 2015: John Hulseberg lived at the end of his life at 38, Glazbury Road, Fulham, London, near West Kensington and Baron's Court, and a short way from Margravine Cemetery (where he may be buried — see below). If the houses in the road are still numbered in the same way as when he lived there, his house was demolished to make way for the A4 Cromwell Road dual carriageway extension (Talgarth Road) around 1960. The last house remaining is number 34.]
1901 Census
38, Glazbury Road, Fulham, London.
John Hulseberg, Head, 69, Army Officer Lieut- Colonel RAMC, London.
Mina Hulseberg, Wife, 58, India.
Herbert Hulseberg, Son, Single, 30, Army Officer Lieut Indian Staff Corps, Bombay.
Eliza Dixon, Visitor, 82, Middlesex.
Jane Serutton, Domestic Servant, 40, Suffolk.
Ellen Ridgeway, Domestic Servant, 29, London.
[PB]
Death & burial
He died at his home, 38, Glazbury Road, Fulham, London, on the 4th of February 1902, aged 71 years.
He was buried in grave No. 6CF/14 on the 9th of February 1902.
[PB: For some reason, EJB doesn't say which cemetery — possibly Margravine (also known as Hammersmith Old Burial Ground), which is nearby?]
He is named as Lieut. Colonel John Wild Hulzaberg in the cemetery records.
[1982] The part of the cemetery where he was buried has now been landscaped and any memorial stone which may have existed is now said by the cemetery authorities to be covered over.
Grave of Lt. Colonel John Wild Hulseberg. The base is inscribed as a memorial to four sons killed 1900-1913. Possibly in Margravine Cemetery, Hammersmith? Photo: EJB 1991.
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[1991] A further search of the area has found a gravestone to him and bears the following inscriptions:
On the top two tiers: "In loving memory of Lt. Colonel John Wild Hulseberg, who died Feb. 1st [sic] 1902, in his 69th year [sic]. "Peace, perfect Peace."
On the base tier: "Sons of the Above":
Harold Edward, March 1st 1900 — Died South African War.
Frederick Walter, August 1st 1900 — Shot in Manilla.
Emil Carten, Feb. 13th 1907 — Died in Canada.
Francis Alexander, Aug. 15th 1913 — South Africa.
There may be other recordings below these, but the stone having sunk into the ground it is not possible to confirm them.
His will confirms his date of death as being the 4th February 1902 and administration being granted to his widow, Mina Clara Reid Hulseberg, to the value of £1,676/18/2d.
1911 Census
559, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London.
Mina Hulseberg, Visitor, 69, Widow, born India.
She and another widow, 70, were visitors in the home of Gertrude Bond, Head. A maid was kept.
Death registered
The death of Mina C R Hulseberg, aged 90, was recorded in the Kingston area in December 1931.
From the Probate Calendar:
HULSEBERG Mina Clara Reid of 3 Parklands, Surbiton, Surrey, widow died 12 November 1931 Probate London 17 December to Mary Alice Robinson (wife of Charles Grey Robinson). Effects £873 0s. 10d.