The young seafaring Alick left home early and became a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. He married Florence Isabel Webster on 18 Jan 1898 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Born there in 1868, she was the daughter of Alexander George Webster and Louisa Harriet Turnley of Hobart.
Soon afterwards, Alick and his new wife returned to Midsomer Norton, where he died of malaria on 2 Sep 1900, aged 29. The family buried him in St. John the Baptist Churchyard in Midsomer Norton. Alick and Florence had one son, Eric Cadogan Waugh, born in Midsomer Norton, six months before his father's death.
Florence and her son later returned to Hobart, Tasmania, where Eric, a solicitor, married Katherine Elsie Clarke in 1929. Alick's widow Florence died in 1931 in Hobart after a motor lorry struck her, aged 63.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), ancestry.com:
John Alexander Waugh of His Majesty's Ship Triton, lieutenant Royal Navy, died 2 Sep 1900 at Midsomer Norton Somersetshire. Administration London, 1 Oct 1908 to the Reverend William Lawrence Waugh, clerk attorney of Florence Isabel Waugh. Effects £1211 8 s. 9d.
Excerpt from Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, by Alexander Waugh, John Alexander Waugh's great grand nephew (London: Headline Publishing, 2004):
"A few weeks after his twenty-ninth birthday, the fever overcame him and on 2 September he died. Alick was the first of his family to go and one of the first of the town's inhabitants to be buried in the new cemetery, four hundred yards over the road from the church."
National Burial Index For England & Wales, findmypast.co.uk:
John Alexander Waugh, born 1871, died 1900, age 29, buried 5 Sep 1900 at St. John the Baptist, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England
The young seafaring Alick left home early and became a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. He married Florence Isabel Webster on 18 Jan 1898 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Born there in 1868, she was the daughter of Alexander George Webster and Louisa Harriet Turnley of Hobart.
Soon afterwards, Alick and his new wife returned to Midsomer Norton, where he died of malaria on 2 Sep 1900, aged 29. The family buried him in St. John the Baptist Churchyard in Midsomer Norton. Alick and Florence had one son, Eric Cadogan Waugh, born in Midsomer Norton, six months before his father's death.
Florence and her son later returned to Hobart, Tasmania, where Eric, a solicitor, married Katherine Elsie Clarke in 1929. Alick's widow Florence died in 1931 in Hobart after a motor lorry struck her, aged 63.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), ancestry.com:
John Alexander Waugh of His Majesty's Ship Triton, lieutenant Royal Navy, died 2 Sep 1900 at Midsomer Norton Somersetshire. Administration London, 1 Oct 1908 to the Reverend William Lawrence Waugh, clerk attorney of Florence Isabel Waugh. Effects £1211 8 s. 9d.
Excerpt from Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, by Alexander Waugh, John Alexander Waugh's great grand nephew (London: Headline Publishing, 2004):
"A few weeks after his twenty-ninth birthday, the fever overcame him and on 2 September he died. Alick was the first of his family to go and one of the first of the town's inhabitants to be buried in the new cemetery, four hundred yards over the road from the church."
National Burial Index For England & Wales, findmypast.co.uk:
John Alexander Waugh, born 1871, died 1900, age 29, buried 5 Sep 1900 at St. John the Baptist, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England
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