BERNARD ARMIGER BARCZINSKY b Sunderland 1858

[phillip]

I have been doing further research into my Barczinsky and Crawcour relatives. My particular interest is to establish whether or not Bernard Amiger Barczinsky b Sunderland 1858 and son of Samuel Barczinsky and Eliza Crawcour is also Armiger Barclay a pseudonym used by the writer Bernard Armiger Barczinsky ( are they one in the same person?).
Samuel Barczinsky and his brother Bernhard were born Nierzwa Poland. The National Archives show they became sought naturalisation and became BS - Bernhard in 1860 and Samuel 1862.
Berger 1861-70 Volume has data on both brothers who were school masters. Bernhard married Sara Crawcour in Glasgow 1868 )( youngest daughter of Barnett Crawcour) and Samuel had married Eliza Crawcour.
The census records also show the family of Samuel and Eliza with Bernard Armiger appearing in 1861; 1871 and as Armiger age 33 Unmarried schoolmaster in 1891.
In the earlier census records 1861-1871 Bernard is with his mother and father and 2 brothers Henry Joshua Crawcour and Isidore. Henry married Julia Sophia Goodman and died in 1927. Isidore changed his first name to John and appears with his wife Lottie S ? still as Isidore in 1901 British Census civil engineer and then in 1910 USA Census as John poultry farmer Atlantic City.
There is a Free BMD marriage record of Bernard Armiger Barczinsky 1897 Liverpool to either Mary Ann Shaw or Caroline Elizabeth Wright.
The writer Armiger Barclay married Marguritte Jervis.
Any further data welcome ( I already have the Probate record of Bernard Armiger or Amiger Barclay who died in France 1930).
Phillip

[Coromandel]

A couple of bits, in case you haven't already found these:

I can see from the free index to the 1911 census that there is an Armiger Barclay (50) in the Watford district. Searching for other Barclays in the same household reveals a 25 year old Marguerite Barclay, whose relationship to Armiger was given as wife. They were being economical with the truth there, I think: FreeBMD has matching entries for Bernard A. Barcizinsky and Marguerite F.L. Jervis in the Aylesbury district, in the third quarter of 1911 (i.e. after the census). The marriage certificate should tell you if he's your Bernard.

[olliecat]

There is a Free BMD marriage record of Bernard Armiger Barczinsky 1897 Liverpool to either Mary Ann Shaw or Caroline Elizabeth Wright.
The writer Armiger Barclay married Marguritte Jervis.


According to the Lancashire BMD, Bernard A Barczinsky married Caroline E Wright in 1897.

Also, there is a marriage in 1911...

Marriages Sep 1911 Aylesbury 3a 2123
Arnold Albert G
Barcizinsky Bernard A
Burnell Emily L
Jervis Marguerite F L

[olliecat]

An Armiger BARCLAY born abt 1858 in Sunderland is also in the 1901 census. Occupation is Theatrical Manager. States he is married.

1901: RG13 Piece: 136 Folio: 103 Page: 20 (crown copyright, care of the TNA)

[Kerrywood]

According to the Lancashire BMD, Bernard A Barczinsky married Caroline E Wright in 1897.

But this couple appear to have divorced (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/searchresults.asp?SearchInit=0&txtsearchterm=armiger&txtfirstdate=&txtlastdate=&txtrestriction=J77&hdnsorttype=Reference&image1.x=0&image1.y=0&image1=GO) in 1910.

[Coromandel]

From the Pall Mall Gazette of 19 Dec 1898:

'Among the names of prominent exhibitors at the Royal Academy that of Miss Ethel Wright (Mrs. Armiger Barclay) is likely to be missed at the forthcoming exhibition at Burlington House. Miss Wright's health has lately been very indifferent, and with regret it is feared that she will be unable to complete the pictures at which she has worked until quite lately.'

I presumed that Caroline E. Wright was one and the same as Miss Ethel Wright . . . but from the link given by Kerrywood, her middle name was Elizabeth not Ethel.

[Coromandel]

An Armiger BARCLAY born abt 1858 in Sunderland is also in the 1901 census. Occupation is Theatrical Manager.

Which ties in nicely with this:

The Era, 17 June 1899 reports a court case, Barclay v. Morell and Mouillot. 'This was an action by Mr Armiger Barclay, a theatrical manager, but described in his statement of claim as "a gentleman of independent means," against Messrs Morell and Mouillot'. It was to do with the profits from a play called The Shop Girl.

[olliecat]

The writer Armiger Barclay married Marguritte Jervis.
Any further data welcome ( I already have the Probate record of Bernard Armiger or Amiger Barclay who died in France 1930).
Phillip

There is a wiki page on Marguerite Jervis alias Oliver Sandys.

http://
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sandys

It appears she had one child with Armiger Barczinsky (there is a birth record for a Nicholas C G A Barczinsky born in 1916) and then obtained a divorce and married Cardoc Evans sometime in the 1930's. I wonder how accurate this is, since if Armiger Barczinsky died in 1930, why would have she needed a divorce. Hmm! Will have to read through the translation again.

[Coromandel]

This might explain why Ethel wasn't with Armiger in 1901:

The New York Tribune, 2 March 1901 (from the 'Chronicling America' website):

'Miss Ethel Wright, a well known young English artist, whose sobriquet is "The Painter of 'The Pierrots,' " gave a tea yesterday at her studio, No. 13 East Thirtieth-st....'

[olliecat]

There is a wiki page on Marguerite Jervis alias Oliver Sandys.

http://
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sandys

It appears she had one child with Armiger Barczinsky (there is a birth record for a Nicholas C G A Barczinsky born in 1916) and then obtained a divorce and married Cardoc Evans sometime in the 1930's.

This could be her second marriage in 1933.

Mar 1933 Maidenhead 2C 731
BARCZINSKY, Marguerite F L
EVANS, David C

[Kerrywood]

I think it was Caradoc EVANS who was divorced from his first wife?

There's an obituary in The Times for Marguerite in 1964 (as "Mrs Caradoc Evans"), claiming she married Caradoc in 1933.

[olliecat]

I think it was Caradoc EVANS who was divorced from his first wife?

Makes more sense, since she didn't need to divorce. Perhaps the translation of the wiki page is not very good. Anyway, we have the marriage now.

[Kerrywood]

Perhaps the translation of the wiki page is not very good.
As the original is in Portuguese, perhaps we can enlist Mutley's help later? :smile5:


Anyway, we have the marriage now.
Yes, well done, we posted simultaneously. :cheers2:

[olliecat]

As the original is in Portuguese, perhaps we can enlist Mutley's help later? :smile5:

Ah! I didn't know Mutley was a Portuguese hound. Yes! come on Mutley - login - we have a job for you. An accurate English translation of the whole wiki page by the end of the day, if you please. :smile:

[Kerrywood]

This (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-3150124&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CCARADOC%2CEVANS&accessmethod=0) looks like the Caradoc EVANS divorce.

[Kerrywood]

There's an article on Marguerite (with a photograph) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Evans [née Jervis], Marguerite Florence Laura [pseuds. Countess Barcynska, Oliver Sandys] (1886/7–1964), novelist, was born at Henzada, Burma ... married Armiger Barczinsky (1861?–1930), a Polish-born journalist (Armiger Barclay) some twenty-five years her senior and, like her father, an aloof disciplinarian; he promised that under his tutelage she would fulfil her literary ambitions (an invention amusingly caught in her volume of autobiography) ... soon afterwards, the couple agreed to part ....
[extracts, copyright Oxford University Press]

I suspect the 1911 marriage certificate with father's name will be required in order to get absolute proof that it is one and the same man. But given the data in the 1911 census, it does look very likely.

[Coromandel]

This National Library of Wales catalogue (http://isys.llgc.org.uk/isysquery/irl8c/14/doc) describes papers of Professor Gwyn Jones deposited there in 1992. Among the entries which may be of interest are:


68/58: Certified copy of the marriage certificate for Armiger Barczinsky and Marguerite Jervis (1911).
68/59: Certified copy of marriage certificate for Caradoc Evans and Marguerite Barczinsky (1933).
68/70-1: Photographs, 1914, of Monica Dunbar with Cupid (Marguerite Evans's dog) and of Armiger Barczinsky and Marguerite.


There's also much in the same catalogue about Caradoc Evans.

[olliecat]

Here is Marguerite Jervis in the 1901 census..

1901: RG13 Piece: 1314 Folio: 76 Page: 12 (crown copyright, care of the TNA)

Much more difficult to try and find Caroline Elizabeth Wright (or Ethel Wright if they are the same person) before her marriage, since we don't have very many details about her. There is this page that has Ethel's full name as Rose Ethel Wright, but whether this is her pseudonym - ?

www.
importantminiatures.com/143125/Cat--No--40-1

I think you may need to look at Armiger Barczinsky’s marriage certificates in order to clarify matters.

[phillip]

You have all been a great help in confirming that Bernard Armiger Barczinsky and Armiger Barclay are one in the same as I suspected. The Probate record shows Bernard Armiger or Armiger Barclay of 2 Burgoyne Road South Norwood Surrey died 5 July 1930 at Palais du Soleil Avenue Thiers Menton France. Probate to Agnes Muriel Greenwood spinster £643. 17s 10d.
The Barczinsky and Crawcour lines are originally Ashkenazi Jews from Poland.
It looks as if Bernard's brother Isidore also changed his name first according to the 1910 USA Census and I can't locate him or his wife Lottie post 1910.
Margurite Jervis was also known as Countess Helene Barcynska claiming her husband was a Polish Count. To my knowledge I have no such links to Jewish nobility!
My thanks again for all your help.
Phillip

[Kerrywood]

Bernard's brother Isidore also changed his name first according to the 1910 USA Census and I can't locate him or his wife Lottie post 1910.
In 1920 they could be in Manhattan Assembly District 7, New York, lodgers at West 72nd Street.

John/Isidore's age has been indexed as 51, but could be 57. He is now a Salesman in bonds, and was born in England, immigrated 1883. Lottie is born Pennsylvania but aged 45, so if it's the same couple she's lost a few years over the decade. :smile5:

[olliecat]

Isidore changed his first name to John and appears with his wife Lottie S ? still as Isidore in 1901 British Census civil engineer and then in 1910 USA Census as John poultry farmer Atlantic City.


There is this marriage on family search...

Groom's Name: Barczinsky
Bride's Name: Lottie Stellwagen
Marriage License Year: 1900
License Number: 129695
Image Number: 00160
Digital Folder Number: 4141925

Also listed is this (same License Number)...

Groom's Name: Isidore Barczinsky
Bride's Name: Stellwagen
Marriage License Year: 1900
License Number: 129695
Image Number: 00047
Digital Folder Number: 4140386

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951

The site is not letting view any images so ..?

[phillip]

The 1905 New York Census has John as a cashier age 44. The Probate record has his mother Eliza Barczinsky 84 Abbey Road St.John's Wood Middx widow. Died 24 Nov 1922.Probate to Isidor John Simons merchant. The Simons are relatives. Benjamin Simons married Hannah Crawcour daughter of Barnett Crawcour in 1861.
Phillip

[Kerrywood]

Is John/Isidore mentioned in his mother's will?

[phillip]

The remarks made by Marguerite Jervis regarding her marriage to Bernard Armiger Barczinsky ( Armiger Barclay) and him being a Polish Count are fiction ( or at best poetic licence).
The GRO Marriage Certificate of his parents Samuel Barkinsky and Eliza Crawcour record:
24 September 1856
Marriage solemnised May House Northfleet Aylesford Kent
Samuel Barckzinsky 26 batchelor -Draper- 8 Causi..? Street Bishop wearmouth Sunderland County Durham-father- Zebi Barczinsky Merchant
Eliza Crawcour 27 spinster-no occupation-May House Northfleet Kent- father-deceased
Married according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Jewish Religion
Witnesses:
Reuben Alexander
Samuel W Crawcour

Eliza's father was Barnett Crawcour who had died in 1834 Norwich
The reason Samuel Barczinsky became a schoolmaster was probably because Eliza's mother and sisters had established a Jewish school in Kent ( May House)
Phillip

[phillip]

The 1851 Census HO107/1609 ( crown copyright, care of the TNA) shows Eliza Crawcour mother of Bernard, Isidore and Henry with her sisters and mother at their school in Kent:
5 May Place Northfleet Kent
Fanny Crawcour Head widow 50 Governess b London
Emma dau U 27 Governess b Norwich
Fanny dau U 25 Governess b Norwich
Rebecca dau U 23 Housekeeper b Norwich
Eliza dau U 21 Housekeeper b Norwich
Martha dau U 19 Housekeeper b Norwich
Hannah dau U 17 Monitor b Norwich
Sara U 16 Pupil b Norwich
The Monthly Magazine and British Register Vol 35 1813 records:
Died) At Norwich, Mrs Cracour wife of Mr C, surgeon
Barnett Crawcour re- married the same year to Fanny Alexander. She died 29 Nov 1885 age 92 and is buried Janefield Cemetery Glasgow with her daughter Hannah and her 3 other daughters.
Phillip

[phillip]

A distant relative has sent me a copy of the Marriage Certificate of Bernard Armiger Barkzinsky ( alias Armiger Barclay) to Marguerite Jervis:
The Register Office Aylesbury Buckingham
17 July 1911
Bernard Armiger Barczinsky 50 the divorced husband of Caroline Elizabeth Barczinsky formery Wright spinster-Journalist-Church House Burton
father- Samuel Barkzinsky ( deceased) Private Schoolmaster
Marguerite Florence Laura Jervis 24 spinster- no occupation- same address- father- Henry Pruce Jervis Lieutenant Colonel I.M.S. ( Retired)
Witnesses:
George Pearce
William Henry Allnutt

This marriage record confirms that Bernard Armiger Barczinsky and Amiger Barclay are one in the same person.
Phillip