Mabel Nembhard (1862 - 1920)
Mabel Nembhard was born in 1862 in Jubbulpoor, India where her parents William and Louisa Fanny Nembhard resided at the time. Her father Major General William Nembhard served in the British Army based in India. He had left Jamaica in the 1840s to join the army. William was born in Jamaica in 1827 and inherited the Hounslow estate, St Elizabeth and the Kensington estate, St. James, from his father and elder brother Henry. Mabel’s great great grandfather, was Dr John F. Nembhard, the original Nembhard who came to Jamaica and lived in St. Mary on the Koningsburgh estate. Dr John Nembhard was William’s great grandfather.
It would appear that Mabel wrote Nembhard of Jamaica in an attempt to understand her own family ancestry and made her publication available as part of a wider historical research project about families in British West Indies around 1910-1916 by Vere Langford Oliver. That publication is called Caribbeana, and is also available on the internet. Mabel made contributions to Volumes II and III of Caribbeana about the Nembhard family as well as other related Jamaican families that were closely connected to the Nembhards. Two of which were the Hibberts and the Brooks.
Nembhard of Jamaica is a historical compilation of the family tree of Dr John Frederick Nembhard his wife Ann Peyton Nembhard nee Hamilton, their eight surviving children and their descendants from 1745 to late 1800s. It includes miscellaneous articles, diary entries, extracts from Wills, dates of marriages and deaths, military careers and peerages. Some details from the articles included give clues to the lifestyle and behaviours of members of the Nembhard family.
Scotland Census
1871 - shows that Mabel aged 9 was a visitor and related to the head of the household in Midlotian, probably her grandmother Elizabeth Frances Nembhard who was the mother of her father William Nembhard. Mabel was living with her parents William and Louisa Fanny in Marylebone Street, London.
UK Census
1891 - shows that Mabel aged 29 lived in the same household as her father William Nembhard, then aged 63 head of the household and her mother Louisa Fanny aged 52.
1911 - shows Mabel then aged 49 residing with her mother aged 72 at their home in St. George, Hanover Square, London.
In 1920 Mabel died a spinster in London leaving effects of £1,421 to Kathleen Brownlow Hibbert (wife of Hugh Hibbert) and Adela Everard, spinster, 58 years old.
Mabel is also the author of a fictional book called Fantasies which is collection of short mythical and fantasy stories set in England. It was published in 1896 by George Allen Publishers.
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It would appear that Mabel wrote Nembhard of Jamaica in an attempt to understand her own family ancestry and made her publication available as part of a wider historical research project about families in British West Indies around 1910-1916 by Vere Langford Oliver. That publication is called Caribbeana, and is also available on the internet. Mabel made contributions to Volumes II and III of Caribbeana about the Nembhard family as well as other related Jamaican families that were closely connected to the Nembhards. Two of which were the Hibberts and the Brooks.
Nembhard of Jamaica is a historical compilation of the family tree of Dr John Frederick Nembhard his wife Ann Peyton Nembhard nee Hamilton, their eight surviving children and their descendants from 1745 to late 1800s. It includes miscellaneous articles, diary entries, extracts from Wills, dates of marriages and deaths, military careers and peerages. Some details from the articles included give clues to the lifestyle and behaviours of members of the Nembhard family.
Scotland Census
1871 - shows that Mabel aged 9 was a visitor and related to the head of the household in Midlotian, probably her grandmother Elizabeth Frances Nembhard who was the mother of her father William Nembhard. Mabel was living with her parents William and Louisa Fanny in Marylebone Street, London.
UK Census
1891 - shows that Mabel aged 29 lived in the same household as her father William Nembhard, then aged 63 head of the household and her mother Louisa Fanny aged 52.
1911 - shows Mabel then aged 49 residing with her mother aged 72 at their home in St. George, Hanover Square, London.
In 1920 Mabel died a spinster in London leaving effects of £1,421 to Kathleen Brownlow Hibbert (wife of Hugh Hibbert) and Adela Everard, spinster, 58 years old.
Mabel is also the author of a fictional book called Fantasies which is collection of short mythical and fantasy stories set in England. It was published in 1896 by George Allen Publishers.
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