Wilhelm was the twin of Hermann Balean(1st). He committed suicide possibly because his leftist newspaper in Breslau was shut down by the authorities.
"; textarray[1] ="Hermann was born on 16th June 1830 and died on 28th January 1900. He married Sarah Harrison and they had six children (Alice, Hilda, Hermann, Thekla, Oswald and Alan). He was the twin brother of Wilhelm Balian and he also had another brother, Johann, and a sister, Mathilde. Their parents were Etienne Balian (1806 - 1833) and Anna Katarine née Schmidt who died in 1843.
"; textarray[2] ="Hermann Balean (1st, 1830-1900) became naturalized as a British Subject on 7th November 1882 and this is a picture of his certificate.
"; textarray[3] ="Sarah Harrison married Hermann Balean (1st). They had six children (Alice, Hilda, Hermann, Thekla, Oswald and Alan). Sarah was born on 16th September 1839 and died on 9th December 1919.
"; textarray[4] ="Fanny was a \"blue stocking\". She studied mathematics at Girton College (Cambridge University, England) and was an early female recipient of a university degree which she attained in 1879. She was born on 15th August 1855 and died on 20th December 1915. She was cremated in Birmingham and \"Uncle Fred\" (Frederick Harrison, Fanny's brother) brought the urn to Brighton on the evening of 28th and she was buried in the family vault in Preston Old Church (St Nicholas Church) the next day 29th December 1915 at 10.45 am. She never married.
"; textarray[5] ="Fanny studied mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge and this picture is of her degree certificate obtained in 1879.
"; textarray[6] ="George was born in 1809 and died in 1866. This miniature is of him at the age of nine years old. He married Sarah Bradford and their daughter, also Sarah, married Hermann Balean (1st).
"; textarray[7] ="This is a picture of George Harrison, the brother of Sarah Harrison, as a child. This one was executed in pastel and originally there was a feather in his hat but, great sacrilege, someone disliked it and rubbed it out! George was born on 25th November 1841 and died young on 10th December 1873.
"; textarray[8] ="Sarah married George Harrison and their daughter, Sarah, married Hermann Balean (1st). Sarah Bradford was born on 6th September 1812 and died on 3rd March 1895.
"; textarray[9] ="This is a later picture of Sarah Bradford who married George Harrison.
"; textarray[10] ="Maria Ann married Charles Rodney Huxley, who was a glover, in 1817. At present we don't have the dates of her birth and death. They had four children, Emma, Charles Rodney, Maria and James. It was Emma who married Edward Oke Spooner. Maria and Charles' son, also named Charles Rodney, was born on 7th August 1820.
"; textarray[11] ="Emma Huxley married Edward Oke Spooner in 1838 at Marylebone. Edward was a surgeon (FRCS). They had a daughter, Emma Jane Spooner, who married Thomas Terrell. Thomas and Emma Jane were the parents of Isabel who married Hermann Balean (2nd). Emma Huxley was born on 14th August 1818 at Newgate and she was baptised at Christ Church, Greyfriars, Newgate on 31st August 1818.
"; textarray[12] ="Emma Jane Spooner married Thomas Terrell. She was born on 6th June 1842 and died on 27th May 1924. Emma and Thomas had three children, Hugh, Courtney and Isabel. It was Isabel who married Hermann Balean (2nd).
"; textarray[13] ="Thomas Terrell was born on 11th July 1852 in Paris, the eldest child of Thomas Hull Terrell and Elizabeth neé Spry. He married Emma Jane Spooner and they had three children, Hugh, Courtney and Isabel. Isabel married Hermann Balean (2nd). When Emma died Thomas married, in 1925, Clementine Bouriel who was from Brittany in France. He met her in France while he was covering the Dreyfus case as a reporter. He had seven children by Clementine. Thomas was a Kings Council on the law of patents. Thomas was Treasurer and a Bencher at Gray’s Inn, a divorce lawyer and an inventor, and he would make and lose fortunes in this way. He invented a special type of gas mantle, only to find that electricity came in and there was no longer any need for the mantles. He wrote novels and plays as well as writing for the London Evening Standard. He put his legal and scientific background to good use by writing the first edition of the standard book on patents and trade marks still known as \"Terrell on Patents\" (his son Courtney wrote many further editions). He was a political radical, a liberal democrat, and was indifferent to religious beliefs. Like his father, had his life been more conventional his career may have progressed further. He died on 27th April 1928.
"; textarray[14] ="Courtney was the eldest son of Thomas and Emma Terrell. He was born on 14th March 1881 in Kensington, Middlesex, and died on 17th May 1938. He was the brother of Isabel who married Hermann Balean, a friend of Courtney. Courtney became Lord Chief Justice of Patna in India at the age of 47 and was made Knight Bachelor on 26th February 1929. The supplement to the London Gazette of 1st March 1929 states:-
\"The King has been graciously pleased to signify His Majesty's intention of conferring the Honour of Knighthood on the following:-\"
and under the heading \"INDIA\" is \"Mr Justice Courtney Terrell, Chief Justice, High Court of Judicature at Patna\". Courtney married Constance Wooder in 1907 and they had three children.
On 1st December 1905 Hermann joined the Pacific and Orient (P&O) SS Persia as ship's surgeon. The exact time that he ceased his work with P&O is unclear but he served on numerous P&O ships including SS Peninsular which is where this photograph was taken. His ships include SS Persia, SS Peninsular, SS Delhi, SS India, SS Malwa, SS Himalaya and SS Egypt. When in Shanghai, he received notification on 8th June 1908 to stay on HMS Flora and he got off before it sailed so that he could go to Kobe in Japan for a holiday with his brother Alan.
"; textarray[16] ="This photograph of Hermann was taken on 12th February 1911. Hermann was one of the sons of Hermann and Sarah Balean. He was born in Brighton on 13th March 1875 and died in January 1945, probably 30th January, in Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong. He took up medicine, training at the London Hospital graduating M.B. in 1901. He also came second in all England in the MRCS LRCP examination (9th May 1901). He took his M.D. in 1903 and B.S. in 1905 and obtained his F.R.C.S. in 1908. He married Isabel Terrell at St. Peters Church, Bayswater, in 1908 and they had five children. All were born in China and at an early age they were sent to Engand for their schooling. Isabel always referred to him as \"Bill\" or \"Billy\".
"; textarray[17] ="This photograph of Hermann and Isobel was taken in 1912 at Chinkiang. A good book to read which includes Chinkiang at this time is \"China Trader\" by A.H. Rasmussen first published in 1954 by Constable and Company Ltd, 10 & 12 Orange Street, London W.C.2 and this book mentions Dr Balean.
"; textarray[18] ="This photograph of Hermann was taken in July 1935 when he and Isabel returned to their home, Egryn, for a holiday from Hong Kong. One interesting snippet recorded by Hermann is that the Knab Inn was sold in 1907 \"by our family\" to Hanningtons of Brighton for about 350 guineas and that it had been owned by the family since 1500.
"; textarray[19] ="This picture is extracted from photograph that was was taken in July 1935 and shows Hermann and Isabel relaxing in a boat on the the river Thames not far from Henley.
"; textarray[20] ="Isabel Terrell married Hermann Balean (2nd). She was a very accomplished violinist and this picture shows her posing with her violin. Hermann and Isabel had five children. For most of their married life they lived in China, first in Chinkiang and later in Hong Kong.
"; textarray[21] ="This lovely photograph of Isabel is believed to have been taken when she was about 18 years old.
"; textarray[22] ="This picture of Isabel has been extracted from a photograph taken in Chinkiang in early 1912.
"; textarray[23] ="Thekla was a mathemetician and drawing instructress. This photograph of her was taken in 1914. She went to China where she taught drawing. She appears to have been an eccentric. She \"streaked\" her hair, most unusual for her day. She was born on 19th December 1876. She never married and died in 1952.
"; textarray[24] ="This is another picture of Thekla, this one extracted from a photograph taken at Christmas 1935 at Egryn.
"; textarray[25] ="This picture of Hilda is extracted from a photograph taken in the mid-1930s. Hilda visited Cologne and Bergen and was one of the family historians. Unfortunately she destroyed most records relating to her brother Alan and much has been lost to later generations. Hilda was born on 21st June 1873 and died in 1953 aged 79.
"; textarray[26] ="Alan took and passed his examination with the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank on 1st November 1901. This picture of Alan has been extracted from the only known photograph which includes him dated 8th May 1910. It was taken at Kobe, Hyogo, Japan when he went there on holiday with Hermann and Isabel. Alan was born at Brighton on 23rd August 1881 and died on 3rd August 1921 at the age of 39. Alan is believed to have been married twice, firstly to Johanna Bratland on 19th December 1903 and secondly to Constance Neubronner. The first marriage resulted in three children and the second in a daughter, Constance Ena Louisa Balean, born on 31st December 1907. Tragically Constance Neubronner died on 7th February 1908 from post-natal complications. Alan is buried at Pyecombe Church in the same grave as his parents.
"; textarray[27] ="This picture of Alan’s daughter, Ena, as a child is extracted from a group photograph.
"; textarray[28] ="This picture of Alan’s daughter, Ena, is extracted from a photograph taken in the mid-1930s.
"; textarray[29] = "Johanna married Alan Balean, possibly in England or Germany (maybe Hamburg), on 19th December 1903. They had three children, Alan Johan, born 22nd June 1904, Norma, born 29th October 1907 and Jack, born 28th July 1909. Johanna’s mother was named Sofie Bratland and Alan and Johanna lived with her in the centre of Bergen. Some time after 1914 Johanna changed her nationality back to Norwegian.
"; textarray[30] = "This is another photograph of Johanna. It was obviously taken in London and has \"Deir Hanna 17 de May 1903\" written beneath.
"; textarray[31] = "Alan Johan Balean and Norma Balean were the children of Johanna and Alan Balean. Norma had a very charismatic personality and became well-known in Bergen, Norway, as a singer and actress.
"; textarray[32] = "Egryn was the home at Henley-on-Thames in England of Hermann and Isabel (nee Terrell) Balean. They returned there every few years from Hong Kong for a holiday and to meet up with their five children who were at boarding schools in England. Egryn was in St Andrew's Road.
"; textarray[33] = "The grounds of Egryn stretched the whole length between two streets, St. Andrew's Road and St Mark's Road. Near the house was a lawn, the next section was a tennis court, and lastly orchard and vegetables. It was in the mid-1950s that Isabel sub-divided and built a smaller house for herself at the lower half of the garden. It was called Sunshine and it was in St Mark's Road.
"; textarray[34] = "This rather unusual document is the birth certificate of Oswald Bradford Balean. Oswald was the youngest son of Hermann and Isabel Balean and, like the rest of their children, he was born in the Treaty Port of Chingkiang.
"; textarray[35] = "This photograph of Oswald aged 5 years old was taken in Hong Kong.
"; textarray[36] = "This picture of Oswald aged 9 years old was extracted from an ancient school photgraph of the Junior School at Epsom College.
"; textarray[37] = "Oswald qualified as a Dental Surgeon having trained at Guy's Hospital before World War II. He worked initially as a Dental Surgeon attached to the Royal Air Force before joining the R.A.F. Dental Branch. He retired with the rank of Wing Commander having had postings in UK, France, Germany, Malta, Barhain and Singapore.
"; textarray[38] = "Oswald Bradford Balean and Ruby Eliza Elizabeth Percy were married on 4th October 1939 at St Augustine's Church, Gillingham, Kent.
"; textarray[39] = "This photograph is of Oswald and Ruby Balean relaxing in deck chairs on the top lawn at their home in Chatham in July 1962.
"; textarray[40] ="This is a photograph of The Downland Church of The Transfiguration at Pyecombe which is just outside Brighton in Sussex. Hermann Balean (1st) is buried here with his wife and four of their six children. We are aware that Hermann (1st) and Reverend E.W. Young of Pyecombe were friends having taught at the same school so this may be why they are buried here. Another possible reason is that the Masters family lived in the civil parish of \"Piecombe, Sussex\" according to the 1901 English Census and the Masters were related to the Baleans. These were James Masters, his wife Alice, and two sons and a daughter. The Balean family lived in Brighton at that time.
"; textarray[41] ="This is the grave of Hermann Balean (1st), his wife Sarah and four of their six children at the The Downland Church of The Transfiguration at Pyecombe. It is situated in the churchyard behind the church. The inscription has deteriorated and is difficult to read. It is as follows:-
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HERMANN BALEAN BORN - 16TH JUNE 1830 DIED - 28TH JANUARY 1900 AND OF SARAH HIS WIFE BORN - 16TH SEPTEMBER 1839 DIED - 9TH DECEMBER 1919.
On another face is written:-
ALSO OF ALAN BALEAN BORN - 23RD AUGUST 1881 DIED - 3RD AUGUST 1921 AND OF ALICE MASTERS BALEAN BORN - 17TH JULY 1871 DIED - 15TH JANUARY 1923
And on another face:-
ALSO OF OSWALD BALEAN BORN - 6TH JUNE 1879 - DIED 1ST MARCH 1928 AND OF HERMANN BALEAN M.D., F.R.C.S. BORN - MARCH 15TH 1875 DIED - JANUARY 30TH 1945.
Two of the children are not mentioned here, namely Thekla Winifred Balean and Hilda Hermina Balean. They died in the early 1950s not far apart and it may be that Hilda was the one who organised for the extra names after the death if her parents as she lived in Brighton.
Note that the monument is \"IN LOVING MEMORY OF\" and that they may not actually be buried here. Hermann (1st), Sarah and Alice almost certainly were and probably Alan also, but it seems unlikely that Oswald or Hermann (2nd) were buried here. It is thought that Oswald was buried at Kandy in Ceylon. Hermann (2nd) died at Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong and was certainly buried at Stanley.
"; textarray[42] ="This is the grave of Hermann Balean (2nd) in Stanley Military Cemetary, Hong Kong. There is some confusion about the date of his death. The British Medical Journal dated 16th June 1945 reported that Hermann died on 19th January 1945, not the 30th January as mentioned on this gravestone. The family grave at Pyecombe also gives 30th January 1945 as the date of his death so that is probably the correct date.
That BMJ obituary of 16th June 1945 reads:-
\"It is now known that Dr. Hermann Balean died on Jan. 19 of this year from acute anaemia at Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong, aged 69. He was a student of the London Hospital, where he won the Price entrance scholarship in science and a scholarship in anatomy and biology, the senior Letheby scholarship, and the Hutchinson prize. He graduated M.B. Lond. in 1901, MD. in 1903, and B.S. in 1905, and obtained the F.R.C.S. in 1908 after serving as senior resident accoucher and house-surgeon at the London Hospital. Dr. Balean was for many years honorary lecturer in anatomy at Hong Kong University and collaborated in papers on lupus erythematosus published in the British Journal of Physiology. He joined the B.M.A. in 1902 and was appointed a member of the Hong Kong Medical Board in 1937. With his wife he was interned by the Japanese after the fall of the island.\"
In the early 1900s Hilda Hermina Balean visited Cologne on more than one occasion and she made this translation of Guillaume Balian's Death Certificate. It would be nice to have a copy of the original but it was probably destroyed in World War II as were many other similar records.
"; // INFO: Percy, Martin // textarray[44] ="As a young man, William was a sailor on the old square riggers. Later he and his wife, Elizabeth née Bevis, owned the village shop at the top of Church Street in Burham, Kent, England.
"; textarray[45] ="Alice Ruby Martin was Herbert's first wife. This photograph was probably taken soon after they married in 1912. Their eldest child, Ruby Eliza Elizabeth Percy (born on 11th June 1918), married Oswald Bradford Balean.
"; textarray[46] = "Alice Ruby Martin was born on 13th July 1887 at Church Street, Burham, Kent in England. Her parents were William and Elizabeth (née Bevis) Martin, who owned the village shop at the top of Church Street. She was usually known as Ruby. She was the first husband of Herbert George Percy whom she married in 1912 and by whom she had three children all born in Burham. She died on 6th May 1936.
"; textarray[47] = "This picture shows Alice Ruby Percy née Martin with the family's pet red squirrel. It was found as a baby on Bluebell Hill by Fred Woolley. In this picture it looks more like a rabbit!
"; textarray[48] = "- another picture of her.
"; textarray[49] ="This is an early photograph of Herbert before he entered the Royal Navy prior to World War I. Herbert was born on 13th May 1891 and died on 13th January 1950. On his birth certificate he is Herbert George Percy because the registrar was stone deaf and mis-heard the name. His parents wanted to call him Albert George but Herbert George it had to be!
"; textarray[50] ="This is a photograph of Herbert in naval uniform. When he originally volunteered for the Royal Navy for a term of 12 years he wasn't old enough so he gave his date of birth as 13th February 1889. He served in the Royal Navy until 1922 reaching the rank of Chief Petty Officer, having survived the sinking of H.M.S. Russell at the Battle of Jutland. He left the Royal Navy on the understanding that he could be recalled in an emergency up to the age of 51 years. He had married Alice Ruby Martin in 1912. When he left the navy, he and Ruby ran the village store at the top of Church Street in Burham which was owned by Ruby’s parents. He served on the West Malling District Council representing Burham, in effect mayor of the village. Later he bought a greengrocery store at 90 Watling Street, Gillingham where his first wife, always known as Ruby, died in 1936. On the outbreak of World War II he was called back for a further 5 years because of his false age in naval records. His second wife, Ethel, had the onerous task of managing the business while he was away in the navy. After the war he sold the business and worked at Chatham Dockyard as a fitter until his death in 1950.
"; textarray[51] ="This photograph was taken when Ruby was about 9 years old. She was born on 11th June 1918 at Burham, Kent and died on 1st October 1988. She married Oswald Bradford Balean on 4th October 1939 at St Augustine's Church, Gillingham, Kent. The reason for her 2nd and 3rd names is that her father's mother was Eliza (Eliza A. Percy) and her mother's mother was named Elizabeth (Elizabeth Bevis).
"; textarray[52] ="This photograph shows Herbert George Percy and his wife Alice Ruby(both seated), with their daughter Ruby(standing behind).
"; textarray[53] ="This photograph was taken on Bluebell Hill in June 1937. Ethel was born on 11th May 1894 and died on 2nd June 1984.
"; // INFO: Dunlop, Silver // textarray[54] = "This photograph was taken at Church Farm, Hendon. Mary's full maiden name before she married was Mary Douglas Love Glen and she was usually known as Mary Glen."; textarray[55] = "
Church Farm at Hendon was where Andrew Dunlop and all his entourage moved to from Scotland and he lived there with his wife Mary née Glen.
"; textarray[56] ="Back Row: Mary, Grace, George, John, Jeanne
Front Row: Catherine, William, Andrew(Andy), and William
Standing 4th from left is Mary Glen Dunlop
Standing 5th from left is George Dunlop in the white hat and at the far left is Andrew Dunlop.
William Dunlop was a presbytarian minister. He was the son of Andrew and Mary Dunlop and was George Dunlop's brother.
"; textarray[59] ="This photograph is of George as a young man. He was born on 24th May 1866 and died on 31st January 1942.
"; textarray[60] ="This picture of George is extracted from a photograph taken in the mid-1930s at Oakdene in Worthing. He was born on 24th May 1866 and died on 31st January 1942. He married Mildred Silver.
"; textarray[61] ="This picture is extracted from a photograph taken in 1911 soon after the birth of her eldest daughter. Mildred was born in 1884 and died in 1966.
"; textarray[62] ="This photograph is of Mildred with her 2nd daughter's horse which previously used to pull a milk cart. Mildred married George Dunlop.
"; textarray[63] ="James was the father of Mildred who married George Dunlop. James married Alice Burritt, a school governess, in 1860. He was a blacksmith and had been apprenticed to his uncle, Edward Silver, in Wargrave, Berkshire. James was born at Wallingfoed, Berkshire, in 1857.
"; // INFO: Kent, Griffiths, Jacks // textarray[64] ="This John Kent was born in 1760, the son of William Kent and Martha née Colefax. John was a wine and spirit merchant. He married Sarah Oliver, the daughter of a publican who owned an Inn at Frankwell near the Welsh Bridge at Shrewsbury. Their 4th child was John Kent(1798-1860) who married Jane Jones(1808-1836).
"; textarray[65] ="This is a silhouette of Jane. She was the daughter of a master bootmaker in Ludlow. She was born on 11th April 1808 and married John Kent on February 23rd 1830 at Ludlow Church. She died on 1st March 1836 when her son (yet another John Kent) was not yet two years old. Her husband died in 1860 aged 62.
"; textarray[66] ="John Kent married Eliza Griffiths, his third wife, and Elsie, Harold and Winifred were their children. Elsie died young. John was born on 27th June 1834 at Shrewsbury and died on 15th April 1914. He is buried at St Chads Churchyard in Shrewsbury.
"; textarray[67] ="This photograph of John Kent, the father of Harold and Winifred, was taken at Ivy House in St Julian's Friars, Shrewsbury.
"; textarray[68] ="Eliza married John Kent. She was married from the Griffiths family home at Ruyton. Her mother was Elizabeth Jacks of Hargrave. Eliza was born on 17th March 1847 at Hargrave, Alberbury and she died on 15th August 1934.
"; textarray[69] = "This is another photograph of Eliza who married John Kent. This was taken at Ivy House, Shrewsbury.
"; textarray[70] ="This photograph was taken about 1896.
"; textarray[71] ="This photograph of Winifred was taken at Church Stretton, Shropshire about 1906. It shows her riding side-saddle.
"; textarray[72] ="Winifred was born on 24th April 1886 in Shrewsbury. She was the sister of Harold. This photograph of Winifred was taken during World War I when she was working as a VAD. In 1924 she married Harry Bisdée. During World War II, she and her husband worked as air raid wardens in London facing difficult tasks in the thick of the London Blitz. She died on 20th November 1975.
"; textarray[73] ="This photograph of Winifred was taken in 1950.
"; textarray[74] ="This photograph of Harry and Winifred was taken at Birling Gap near Eastbourne in April 1965.
"; textarray[75] ="This photgraph was taken around 1900 at Ivy House, Shrewsbury, and depicts Harold with his dog Togo. Harold was born on 2nd June 1888 and died on 12th July 1959.
"; textarray[76] ="This photograph of Harold was taken in 1919.
"; textarray[77] ="This photograph of Harold was taken about 1935.
"; textarray[78] ="Another photograph of Harold, this one taken about 1941.
"; textarray[79] ="Ivy house was the home of John Kent and Eliza née Griffiths. It was situated in St Julian's Friars, Shrewsbury and is now the Sandford House Hotel. This photograph is of the tennis court.
"; textarray[80] ="This was the home of William Griffiths, father of John Griffiths whose daughter Eliza married John Kent. This house has since been demolished. The Isle of Shropshire probably refers to the region around Isle Pool near Bicton, Shrewsbury. Isle Lane runs from Holyhead Road to Isle Pool.
"; textarray[81] ="This was the home of the Griffiths family at Ruyton near Dorrington and Condover, Shropshire. It was from here that Eliza Griffiths married John Kent.
"; textarray[82] ="Hargrave was the home of the Jacks family at Wollaston near Alberbury, Shropshire. The Jacks had farmed at Hargrave (also called Le Hargré) for 3 centuries since 1549.
"; textarray[83] ="This is another photograph of Hargrave, the home of the Jacks family.
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