Walter Lucus Lynde & Alice Rose
Walter Lucus Lynde & Alice Rose
They had six children who survived, three boys and three girls.
(Walter) Mighells
2.4.1883 - 31.3.1944
Ronald Dobell
11.10.1884 - 29.3.1976
Eric Gascoigne
31.10.1885 - 28.5.1980
Alice Edith
28.10.1887 - 29.3.1944 (my mother)
Mary Silvia
1889 (died at 6 months)
Bertha
5.2.1891 - 21.4.1982
(Emily) Phillis
30.4.1892 - 20.3.1980 (your grandmother)
The photographs were taken in 1893 by Walter’s eldest brother James Lynde, a civil engineer who was also an
amateur photographer. They show Alice Rose and Walter with their three boys and three girls in their garden in
London with ‘Great Aunt Hannah Dobell’. Hannah was the eldest daughter of John Dobell and therefore Alice
Rose’s Aunt. She never married , was born in May 1805 and died on 5th February 1896, so in these photographs
she was 88. As a child of 8 she embroidered the sampler handed down to me and is hanging in the lounge at
Chilton Place.
Sampler embroidered by you 3* Great Aunt
Hannah Dobell when she was 8 years old
Watercolour by your Great Aunt Alice (my mother)
Phyllis
Alice Rose
Mighells
Eric
Ronald
Hannah Dobell
Bertha
Walter Lucus
Alice Edith
A family holiday at Caterham, Surrey in 1988. Alice Edith, aged 12, holding the reins and whip, is about to take her
younger sisters, Bertha, 8, and Phyllis, 7, for a ride. Standing behind the cart is Florrie Taylor who was governess to
the girls. Florrie became a great friend to my mother, Alice Edith and 30 years later when Florrie had retired, I, as a
young child, often stayed at her home in Bansted, Surrey, where she lived with her two sisters, Ethel and Maud.
None of them had married and all were very artistic, especially Maud who was an acknowledged artist with
paintings hanging in the National Gallery and had a wonderful imagination. I can still remember the enchanting
country walks we went on together when she would weave a magical story about anything we saw when we walked.
Phillis
Alice Rose
Walter Lucus
Bertha
Alice Edith
Mighells
Eric
Ronald
The above was taken about 1901 when Phyllis (your grandmother) was 9
and Mighells 18 and Alice Rose must have been 50 and Walter Lucus 45.
Walter Lucus & Alice Rose
David Mager
Bluetooth’s Apprentice
