Register
Office Marylebone Middlesex
175 2
Aug 1887 Walter Edmund Roth 26
Bach Law Student 48 Wimpole St, Marylebone Mathias Roth,
physician,
M.D.
Ada Toulmin 40 Widw - Queen Anne's Mansions, Charles Howard,
Westminster barrister at
law
Register
Office, by Licence John
Plummer
Harry
Buckland
[48 Wimpole St was the family home of Mathias
Roth (Reynolds)]
Ada's father's name leaves no doubt that
she was the widow of Alfred Harper
Toulmin,
*1321564 in my "London" volume.
Mr Marcus F. Toulmin-Rothe of London
wrote
to EM around 1986 and confirmed "his paternal grandmother Miss Howard m. a
Mr
Toulmin
... then m. Mr Rothe around 1888", and I checked this with him by phone a
year or
two later, but did not obtain any further details. Identification with Ada
is
confirmed by the appearance of "Ada Toulmin-Rothe" as a witness at
marriages of
Ada
Toulmin's daughters (*13215641,2) in 1908-9; though (as indicated in my note on
her)
she was being described as "Ada Toulmin, widow" in 1889-91.
Walter Edmund Roth was b. 2 Apr 1861 in
London; his father Mathias was a
naturalized
Hungarian refugee, and his mother Anna Maria Collins was English; he
had
brothers Henry and Reuter. Educated
France, Germany, and Univ. Coll. School,
London;
studied biology at Magdalen Coll., Oxford (till 1885); medical training St
Thomas's
Hosp., London (from 1884); started law studies, Lincolns Inn Jan 1886.
Published
"The elements in school hygiene", 1886 [Brit.Lib. lists 7 other
publications]. He seems to have left Ada a few weeks after
marriage and moved to
Sydney,
Australia, where an elder brother had settled (and another in Queensland).
He may
have arrived in Sydney 4 Oct 1887, certainly by November. Possibly he was
accompanied
by Eva Grant, a nurse from St Thomas's; she had his dau. in July 1888
who d.
at 3 months, and a son Vincent in Brisbane 29 Sep (?) 1889, and d. 13 Aug
1890
(phthisis). Walter returned briefly to
London to take MRCS & LRCP, 1892, and
had a
distinguished career as an anthropologist, in Australia until 1906 and then in
British
Guiana (Guyana); there is a Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology in
Georgetown,
where he d. 5 Apr 1933. He married
Edith Humpherson (1893?) and 3 sons
survived
him. (Reynolds: life in Aust.Dict.Biog. and additional information in
letters
to GHT)
As the name Roth was quite unusual, it
seems worth noting that an Ada E.N.Roth d.
aged 52,
Chelsea. Jul-Sep 1913: not a sister of Walter but possibly related. I
also
noted that an F.N.Roth changed his name to Norman-Roth in 1905 (Times, 13 Jan):
this
was Felix Norman Roth, 1857-1921, a brother of Walter (Reynolds). I've not
found
any formal notice of Ada's change of name to Toulmin-Rothe (checked Times
index
1891-1908).
The Toulmin-Rothes originate from a Walter
Bayard Toulmin-Rothe who was
apparently
the son of Walter Roth and Ada.
According to Wood he was b. 28 June 1888
at
London, but I have found no record of this and Reynolds also notes "the
birth was
not
registered in the UK"; further the date seems almost impossible if his
father
arrived
in Sydney on 4 Oct 1887. He served in
WWI (WO339/5366 "Toulmin-Rothe W B,
Lieut"),
and the following certificate (per Weston) appears to prove his marriage:
Kingston Hampton Middlesex
--6 27
May 1918 Eric Bayard Walter Bayard Gertrude Florence Lieutenant 5th Royal Gertrude 3 June 1918
Bushey Lodge (boy)
Toulmin-Rothe Toulmin-Rothe Fusiliers (no civil Toulmin-Rothe
Teddington R.D. (Phinney) occupation)
Mother. 16 Victoria Sq.
London S.W.1
I have not been able to trace the marriage
(GRO indexes 1904-1918 checked);
probably
Wood gives some information on it.
Apparently Wood lists children Melodie,
Carl,
and Ivan; Reynolds was in touch with "Melodie (Sydney), Carl (England) and
Ivan's
widow Janice (Inverness)", but not Marcus (see above).
The 1991 telephone listings quoted in App.G
included
Toulmin-Rothe
C 2 Braceby Rd ROPSLEY Ingoldsby
(047685) 536
[Presumably Carl, above. Prob. = Carlo b. Genoa (GRO Cons 1921-5
57.2285, per
JMH)]
Toulmin-Rothe
M W St Vincent Lodge Harrowby Rd Grantham
(0476) 70385
[Ropsley is near Grantham]
Toulmin-Rothe
I P Hillview Knockfin Tomich Cannich
(04565) 269
[Undoubtedly Ivan, above: the same number
listed in 1997 as J. Toulmin-Rothe]
Toulmin-Rothe
M F 14 Corrib Hts Crescent Rd N8
081-340 7631
[Marcus, EM's correspondent, see beginning of
this Appendix]
Ann Toulmin-Rothe illustrated 3 small books
published in US 1981-2 (PT/cit); I.
Toulmin
Rothe co-authored Forestry Commission booklet no.9, 1963 (Brit.Lib.
BS15/46
- no hyphen in name, but probably Ivan).
Paul Sergins [Sergius?] Toulmin-Rothe d.
Tokyo 27 Au 1933 (GRO Deaths Abroad
1993,
per JMH)