Noelle 2002
Dear Richard Bruce and David, in this electronic album are the only pictures I
have of our Dobell and Lynde Forebears, those in the first three generations on
the chart opposite. I have continued on with pictures of your grandmother
(Emily Phillis) and her siblings, the six children of Alice Rose and Walter Lucus
Lynde. Unfortunately I have no photographs of your father when he was young
or you as children.
With love from your first cousin once removed.
Noelle 2002
John Dobell
Martha Crankshaw
Your 3* great grandfather was born in England on 20th October 1774. He served as a navel volunteer on board
the Admiral’s ship in Lord Howe’s “Glorious victory of the 1st June 1794”. He was a protege of Admiral Jack
Payne with whom he had served and by the Admiral’s introduction became in attendance on the Prince Regent,
later George IV and on the 4th May 1822 was sworn as “Page of the Presence in Ordin to His Majesty of the 1st
Class” an office he continued to hold under William IV and Queen Victoria until his retirement. He died at
White Rock, Hastings in November 1849 in his 76th year, and was buried in St Mary’s Cemetery on 22nd
November 1849.
He married Martha Crankshaw on the 31st March 1804, and they lived in St James’s Palace during his years as
State Page.
Lord’s Waits for 1841
David Mager
Bluetooth’s Apprentice
