William Edward Graham Niven

Born: 1877, Kensington, London, England
Marriage (1): Dame Henrietta Julia Degacher Jun Q 1899 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Died: 21 Aug 1915, Scimitar Hill, Suvla, Turkey aged 38
Buried: Suvla, , Turkey

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Dame Henrietta Julia Degacher

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bullet Birth Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/42553170/person/19800645170

bullet Death Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/42553170/person/19800645170

bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p18314.html

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/42553170/person/19800645170

• General Comment. William Edward Graham Niven was born on 24 June 1877 at Princes Square, London, England.1 He was the son of William Niven and Helen Boustead.1 He married Henriette Julia Degacher, daughter of Captain William Degacher, in 1899 at Warwick, Warwickshire, England.1 He died on 21 August 1915 at age 38 at Scimitar Hill, Suvla, Turkey, killed in action. He was buried at Green Hill Cemetery, Suvla, Turkey.
He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, England.2 In 1908 he was on a two month safari in East Africa, and killed eight lions. He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the Berkshire Yeomanry. He fought in the Gallipoli Campaign.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p18314.html

William married Dame Henrietta Julia Degacher, daughter of Capt. William Degacher and Julia Caroline Webber Smith, Jun Q 1899 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. (Dame Henrietta Julia Degacher was born Mar Q 1878 in Brecknock, Breconshire, England and died on 12 Nov 1932 in South Kensington, Middlesex, England.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.thepeerage.com/p18314.html

And

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=cgs6N9dDRIKmXEuK%2BZE%2FSQ&scan=1

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Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years