ADAMS PETER HUBERT

[oscar p]

Hello:
I am new in this forums.
My name is Oscar. I live in Chile and I am researching about my grandfather, who was an English man, born in London about 1820. He was a photographer and inventor. He traveled to Chile in 1845 and died here in 1930.
It is said that he was secretary from the great explorer Livingstone during a trip to Africa to meet Stanley.
Any help about this will be very grateful.

Greetings from Chile.

Oscar

[valg]

Did he marry before he left England if so what is his spouses name?? Cannot find any marriages for a Peter Hubert Adams there are abt 5 between 1837-1845 for Peter Adams no midle name....Any children born in England..

[Coromandel]

Hello Oscar, and welcome to the forum

You give the dates 1820-1930 for Peter (or Pedro), but some online sources suggest he was born 1830 and died 1900:

The 'Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia', Issue 96, has an article on Pedro H. Adams. I can't see the whole thing but here are some bits of it:

'Fotógrafo activo en Chile hacia 1865. Pedro Adams nació en Londres en 1830. Despues de una vida aventurera llegó a Chile por 1865. Debió traer conocimientos de fotografía, pues al poco tiempo se asoció con Janson en la razón social Janson y Adams (ver) en un estable cimiento de retratos fotográficos. Hacia 1869 se incorporó al importante establecimiento de Garreaud y Ca. en el que tuvo a su cargo las tomas que publicó el álbum Vistas de la Patogonia, del Estrecho y de la Tierra del Fuego, realización conjunta de los establecimientos Garreaud y Ca., de Santiago, y Rowsell y Courret Hermanos, de Valparaíso...

and I think this is part of the same article:

...'Envió algunas de sus invenciones, relativas a revelado, a un certamen de Buenos Aires. El Diccionario Biográfico de Virgilio Figueroa hace mencion de Adams, quien murió en Osorno hacia 1900.'

A snippet of 'Todo es historia: issues 265-270' visible on Google Books says '...Pedro H. Adams (1830-1900), inglés nacido en Londres, amigo de Darwin y del explorador Livingstone, fue muy aficionado al daguerrotipo. Trabajó con Garreaud en Santiago y después se estableció en Osorno donde murió en 1900...'

Do you have any documents giving his middle name as Hubert? I see that on this genealogy website he is called Pedro Howard Adams:

https://www.
genealog.cl/Chile/A.html

(There's also a 'Bull' after these names; I am not familiar with the naming system in Chile but perhaps this is his mother's maiden name?). Here it says 'llegó a Chile 1868; acompañó a Charles Darwin, apoyándolo con la cartografía y fotografía cuando se efectuó el límite chileno-argentino en la Patagonia y de ahí surgió la "Ranita de Darwin" y un zorro al que también le pusieron su nombre; c.c. Virginia Samit.'

What is confusing me here is that Darwin's voyage to South America was in the 1830s when Peter/Pedro would only have been a child, if the dates given above are correct.

[Werner von B]

Did he marry before he left England if so what is his spouses name?? Cannot find any marriages for a Peter Hubert Adams there are abt 5 between 1837-1845 for Peter Adams no midle name....Any children born in England..

Peter Howard Adams Bull (son of George Adams and Charlotte Bull) married to Virginia Samit on May 5th 1873 in Chile.
He is mentioned crossing the Andes through the Puyehua Pass in 1891 from Osorno to the Nahuel Huapi lake.

[Werner von B]

Pedro H. Adams died in Osorno, Chile, May 7th, 1899. He is buried at the German Cemetery.