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From: "W Jervois" <>
Subject: Re: Matabele Wars of Rhodesia
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 08:37:44 +0200
In-Reply-To: <200007020243.e622hkb07752@cgi.rootsweb.com>


Hello Mary

According to Burke's peerage & Baronetage, (1939 edition, page
2531), Edward Earle Welby was born in 1869, the younger son of
Henry Welby and Cecilia (nee Bland) of the cape of Good Hope,
and a gt-dd-son of Sir William Earle Welby, 2nd Baronet. The
family were settled in Lincolnshire for many centuries. The
Southern African branch of the family was the result of Edward's
grandfather having been the Bishop of St Helena, a diocese which,
at that time, included all British posessions beteen that island and
the diocese of Bombay - somewhat impractical!

with best wishes

William

On 1 Jul 00, at 19:43, Mary Cubitt wrote:

> Posted on: of General, SouthAfrica Query Forum
> Board URL:
> http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/SouthAfrica/General?read=86
> 9
>
> Surname: Welby
> -------------------------
>
> I am trying to find out more information about the Matabele Wars in
> Rhodesia in the 1890's. As Zimbabwe doesn't have a message board, I
> have posted my message here. In particular, I am trying to find out
> more about Edward Earl Welby who was killed along with Major Wilson
> and others in an ambush in the Matabele War in 1893. There is a
> monument called the Salisbury Memorial Tablet with his name on it. Is
> anyone able to help or point me in the right direction. Mary Cubitt,
> Hamilton, New Zealand,


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