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On the 21st of February 1850, Frances Isabella Locke, daughter of Wadham Locke, Esq., J.P. of Rowdeford House, near Bronham, Wiltshire, married Henry Duberly. 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.
(Her sister,Katherine Powell Locke, married his brother, George [date?].)
At the age of just 25, she accompanied her husband to the Crimea and later to India for the Mutiny campaign.
his wife (widely known as "Fanny", and to the troops as "Jubilee")
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...
Her book about the Crimea, "Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol", by Frances Isabella Locke Duberly [aka Mrs. Henry Duberly] (1829-1903), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 (Second Edition), is available online at
An excellent modern edition, with commentary and previously unpublished material, is Mrs. Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854 - 1856. Edited by Christine Kelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 26-35.
Dictionary of National Biography - Frances [Fanny] Isabella Duberly (accessed and downloaded 25.1.2013)]
Wikipedia - Fanny Duberly (accessed 25.1.2013)