Albert Robert Ivall was a son of Percy and Alice Ivall. There is an article about Percy's life on this blog.
The following item appeared in the Sutton and Epsom Advertiser dated 17 January 1935, when Albert was aged 28.
10s in 1935 is equivalent to about £115 in 2023 (relative to the wage of the average worker).
Dorothy Louise Ivall was the youngest of the five children of Henry Thomas and Edith Augusta Ivall. She was born on March 25, 1917 in Kingston, Surrey. Dorothy is descended from David Ivall (1795-1850), who was a brother of my ancestor Thomas Ivall (1781-1835).
The 1921 census shows Henry (aged 46, a newsagent and
confectioner) and Edith (39) with their children Marjorie (14, assisting
father), Patricia (13), Percy (8) and Dorothy Ivall (4) living in 7 rooms at
172 Falcon Road, which was a shop near Clapham Junction train station.
Henry and his family moved to 87 Gatton Rd, Wandsworth in
1926. Electoral registers show them there until 1938. Henry, his wife Edith and
their children Marjorie, Henry, Percy and Dorothy were listed at the address
that year.
Henry moved to 426 Southcroft Road, Streatham in 1938. The
1939 Register gives the occupants of this address as Henry (a night porter at
offices), his wife Edith and their children Marjorie (under her married surname
of Gardiner, a hire purchase clerk), Henry (a fitter's mate, electrical), Percy
(a cashier clerk typist for a timber company) and Dorothy (a hire purchase
clerk).
Dorothy died on February 9, 1944 at Queen Mary Hospital. Her
death certificate says that she was a spinster, living at 426 Southcroft Road,
a refrigerator maker’s secretary, daughter of Henry Thomas Ivall who was an office
caretaker. The cause of death was “nephrectomy for hydronephrosis.” Nephrectomy is a surgical procedure to remove all or part of a kidney. Hydronephrosis
is a condition where one or both kidneys become stretched and swollen as the
result of a build-up of urine inside them. It can affect people of any age.
Perhaps Dorothy would have survived with current medical treatment ?
The February 28, 1944 Streatham News contained the
following item
FUNERAL OF MISS IVALL
Floral Tributes from
Home Guard
THE passing of Miss Dorothy Louise Ivall (aged 26), youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivall, Southcroft Road, Streatham, came as a severe
blow, not only to her parents and family, but to members of the 31st Battalion
Streatham Home Guard with which she had been associated since its inception.
She will also be sadly missed at the Electrolux Service Department, Clapham,
where she was secretary.
The Home Guard was strongly represented at the funeral at
Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, last week, and among the large number of
floral tributes were wreaths from the 31st Battalion, the Women's Auxiliary
(31st Battalion), the officers, N.C.O.s, men and women's auxiliary of A Company
of the Streatham and Battersea Battalion. Wreaths were also sent by M. and Mrs.
Ivall (parents) and Molly, Roger, Alice and Percy; Mr.
and Mrs. Marks and Christopher; Mrs. W. Smith (aunt); Mrs. Apps (aunt) and
family; Mr. and Mrs. P. Ivall (aunt and uncle) and
family; Mr. and Mrs. F. Champ (aunt and uncle); Mr.
K. Ivall (nephew); Messrs. Sanson and S. Sherlock (Electrolux Service
Dept.); the Electrolux Directors of Luton; a Director of Cubitt Town Timber,
Ltd.; Sgt. Harry Burge, R.S.N.S.; Mr, and Mrs, Stratt; Cecila and Jim; Cecilia
(a colleague); Mr. and Mrs. Dempkin; Vera and Harrold; Mr. F. Simmons; and Mr
and Mrs. Pinney and son. Owing to his illness in hospital, Mr. Ivall (father)
was unable to attend, but the mother, although an invalid, was present.
(Mr. and Mrs. Marks and Christopher is Dorothy’s sister
Patricia, her husband Harold Marks and their son Christopher. Mr. and Mrs. P.
Ivall (aunt and uncle) is Dorothy’s father’s brother Percy and his
wife Alice. Mr. K. Ivall (nephew) is
Kenneth Alexander Ivall, son of Dorothy’s sister Marjorie).
Dorothy was buried in Streatham Cemetery in grave number
1168, class G, block 12. Dorothy’s mother Edith, died in March 1944 aged 62 and
was buried in the same grave. Administration of Dorothy’s estate (£533) was
granted to her father Henry.
Henry died in 1956 aged 82. He was buried on 17 October 1956
in the same plot as his wife and his daughter Dorothy. The grave is grassed
over and has no stonework on it.
In 1983, Margaret wrote an excellent book detailing the history of and people in the Ivall family in Canada. It records that they are descended from Alexander “Sandy” Ivall (1831-1911), who emigrated from Scotland to Canada in about 1836. He married Jane Kerr and they had ten children. His sixth child, William Ivall (1860-1940) married Margaret Hawley (1856-1913). Their third child was Edward Leslie Ivall (1890-1987) who married Rea Helen Ratcliff (1902-1985) in 1918. These were Margaret’s parents – she was born on 31 May 1919.
When written, Margaret’s book was a comprehensive listing of the descendants of Alexander Ivall, with family history information about them. It is a notable achievement.
Margaret married Clarence Gerhard Bymoen (born 20 September 1912) on 2 January 1941. This is what Margaret says about herself in her book:
“I am the first daughter of Edward Ivall and Rea Ratcliff. I was born on the farm home at Vesper, Sask. I finished my high school in Swift Current, Sask., in 1938-1939 I took my teacher training at the Moose Jaw Normal School. I love music, played the violin, accordion and organ a bit and have tried my hand at painting. We farmed at Simmie, Sask, 40 miles south of Swift Current, we then sold and eventually bought 11 miles north of Swift Current where my son Terry now farms.
While living in Swift Current I was active on United Church committees, Hospital Board, Pioneer Lodge Board also Hospital Auxiliary. I had a heart attack which caused me to curtail my activities. I enjoy duplicate bridge and Lois (Margaret’s sister) and I attend duplicate bridge tournaments, playing as partners. At present I am chairman of the local Genealogical Society. Clarence and I had six children.”
Clarence died 8 October 1971, aged 59.
“In 1977 I married Walter Penner a retired Superintendent for Patterson Grain Elevators. We go to Mesa, Arizona each winter for three months. Walter has become a bridge player as well and we play in competition.”
Margaret died on 26 April 2020, aged 100. She is buried in the same grave as her husband Clarence in Mount Pleasant Burial Park, Swift Current. The website Find a Grave has memorial to her https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209523788/margaret_bymoen. It has pictures of Margaret and her grave.
The General Register Office (GRO) recently launched their new Online View service, which offers instant access to images of entries from the birth and death registers for England & Wales. The service currently covers births from 1837-1922 and deaths from 1837-1887. The cost is £2-50 (compared to £7 charged for a PDF image).
I have used this service to order an image of the entry for
the death of Robert Thomas Ivall (1812-65). There is an item about his life on
this blog.
The entry shows that he died on 13 August 1865 in Chalvey
(now a suburb of Slough) aged 53. His “Rank or Profession” is given as “District
Secretary to Benefit Club”. The cause of death was “Pneumonia 6 weeks, Gangrene
of Leg, Certified.” The informant was Owen Ivall (then aged 19, a son of
Robert), who was present at the death.
Robert was born on 4 December 1812, so he was actually aged 52
(not 53) when he died.
Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one
or both lungs. Gangrene is a serious condition where a loss of blood supply
causes body tissue to die. It can occur as a result of an injury, infection or
a long-term condition that affects blood circulation. The treatment of both of
these conditions would now involve antibiotics, which were not available when
Robert died. Surgery is also used to treat gangrene.
Anthony Ivall Aust was descended from James Ivall (1745-1809) via Charles Ivall (1779-1832), John Ivall (1802-35), Anna Aust nee Ivall (1827-99), Henry Ivall Aust (1869-1922) and Ivall George Aust (1907-73).
Charles Ivall was a brother of my ancestor Thomas Ivall
(1781-1835). There is an item about the life of Anna Aust nee Ivall on this
blog. In 2009, I exchanged emails with Anthony about his Ivall family history.
Anthony was made a CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael
and St George) in 1995. This is awarded to men and women who hold high office
or who render important non-military service to the United
Kingdom in a foreign country.
On May 20 2018, The Times published the following:
Anthony Aust
obituary
Unconventional adviser to the Foreign Office whose book on
international law was next to Osama bin Laden’s bed when he was shot
When Osama bin Laden was tracked to a compound in Pakistan in 2011 and shot dead by US navy Seals, not the least of the surprises revealed to a watching world was the nature of his bedside reading. At the top of a hefty stack of hardbacks that included histories of warfare was a handbook of international law written by Anthony Aust.
Yet Aust may have had his own views on the legality of Bin
Laden’s death, for, despite working for the Foreign Office as a legal adviser
for almost 35 years, to more staid colleagues he could appear unconventional in
dress and opinion.
Rather than being the customary Oxbridge-bred barrister,
Aust was by training a solicitor and had been educated at the London School of
Economics (LSE). As a young lawyer he had supported causes and organisations
considered at the time somewhat radical, such as the National Council for Civil
Liberties (now Liberty). In summer he might appear in the office not in a
three-piece suit, but in sandals, and in winter wear at his desk a rollneck
sweater. When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands one April afternoon in
1982, he answered an urgent summons to Whitehall wearing his gardening clothes.
Such independence of mind perhaps hinted at his strengths as
a lawyer. A skilled negotiator with a good poker face, from 1988 to 1991 Aust
was legal adviser to the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New
York during the dramatic period of the end of the Cold War. In the autumn of
1988 he had an early indication of the changes to come when, unexpectedly, a
senior Soviet diplomat began to relate inside stories from the Kremlin at a
dinner party in Aust’s apartment in Manhattan. A steady thawing of relations at
a personal level soon followed.
The destruction soon afterwards of Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie triggered a series of legal issues that would dominate the last
decade of Aust’s career in government service. They culminated in the unique
solution of the setting-up of a special Scottish court sitting in the
Netherlands to try those accused of the bombing.
He was also to play a key role in the international response
to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990. As legal adviser, he sat next to the
British ambassador to the UN, Sir Crispin Tickell, during the many difficult
and sometimes all-night discussions in the security council. He was centrally
involved in the drafting of the early council responses and typed up the first
version of Resolution 678, which empowered states to use all necessary means to
eject the Iraqis. Despite the apparent success of the measures in procuring the
restoration of Kuwaiti sovereignty, he remained profoundly sceptical as to the
effectiveness of the UN as an institution.
Anthony Ivall Aust was born in Reading, Berkshire, in 1942,
to Jessie (née Salmon) and Ivall, a clerk at the Huntley & Palmers biscuit
factory. Young Tony was educated at Stoneham Grammar School and initially hoped
to become an architect before deciding to read law at the LSE. Later in life he
became an accomplished photographer, often taking buildings as his subjects.
While an articled clerk in 1967, he applied for a post as a
legal adviser at the Foreign Office and was surprised when he got the job. An
early matter with which he was involved was seeking to justify in law the
government’s decision to expel forcibly from their home the islanders of Diego
Garcia in the Indian Ocean. This was done to provide a base for the US
military, later shared with Britain. Although successive governments have
denied acting illegally, Aust found the task distasteful, and the issue remains
a source of bitter dispute to this day.
From 1976 to 1979 Aust was legal adviser to the British
military government in Berlin, a legacy of the Second World War. His office
looked out on a golden German eagle, and behind his desk was a complete set of
records of the Nuremberg trials. His remit included the supervision of the
British contingent in Spandau Prison, which held Rudolf Hess, formerly Hitler’s
deputy.
Spandau had been built in the late 19th century to house 600
prisoners. Hess, by then in his eighties, had become its sole inmate, but
conditions were made relatively comfortable for him. He was provided with a
hospital-style bed and allowed to decorate the walls with pictures of planets.
Aust had to sit in on some of Hess’s monthly family visits,
when his wife usually came. Most of the time, he recalled, she talked about
herself and life outside. Hess had very little chance to say anything. Unkind
people said that if he were to be released he would die quickly from having to
listen to her chatter.
One difficulty that Aust had to negotiate was whether Hess
should be allowed to have a television, placed in a corridor, so he could watch
an important football match between England and West Germany. The British
wardens were keenly in favour, and for once the Soviet governor agreed, even
though it meant erecting an aerial on the roof (England lost).
During his final days in Berlin, Aust also had to cope with
the publication of a book by Hugh Thomas, a former British doctor at Spandau,
which alleged that the man held in the prison was not Hess but a double — and
that the Allies knew this. It said that the real Hess had been shot down while
trying to fly to Scotland in 1941 and had been replaced by an impostor working
for Heinrich Himmler. The proof was said to be that Thomas had seen no sign on
Hess of a scar from when shot during the First World War. It was decided to
x-ray the prisoner, which revealed the damage to his lung. Hess eventually
committed suicide in the prison in 1987, aged 93.
In 1969 Aust married Jacqueline Paris. They had two
daughters, Sophie and Katherine, but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1988 he
married Kirsten Kaarre Jensen, a Danish diplomat; they met at a conference in
Montreal about the shooting down by the Soviet military in 1983 of Korean Air
Lines Flight 007.
Aust was appointed CMG in 1995 and retired as deputy legal
adviser at the Foreign Office in 2002. Thereafter he devoted himself to
teaching and to scholarly writing, fiercely rejecting any notion that he had
become an academic. His books included Modern Treaty Law and Practice (2000),
derived from his extensive experience of treaty negotiation and the operation
of treaty regimes such as that of Antarctica, with which he remained involved.
The book became a standard work of reference.
Aust’s other interests included travel, especially to
Tasmania, which he visited many times. His subtle wit was often in evidence at
academic seminars. In the style of his favourite author, Oscar Wilde, he
remarked that he saw his task as hoping to reveal a “glimpse of ankle beneath
the capacious skirts of government”.
Anthony Aust, CMG, legal adviser to the Foreign Office, was born on March 9, 1942. He died after a long illness on December 3, 2017, aged 75.
The 1921 census for England and Wales has recently been released on the website Findmypast. The index can be viewed free. It shows 71 people with the surname Ivall. Of these, 68 are people in my family tree. The remaining 3 are people whose details I don’t recognise and I suspect that their actual surnames have been mistranscribed.
There are some Ivalls that I was expecting to find, who
are not listed. I have found them wrongly listed under other surnames. They are
-
William Charles Jooel (Ivall) and Florence
Bessie Jooel with their 4 children
- Robert Thomas Owen Soall (Ivall) and Florence Sarah Soall with their 3 children
-
George Iver (Ivall) and Alice Eliza Iver
-
Catherine Mildred (Ivall)
- Percy Isall (Ivall) and Alice Isall with 4 of their children
This brings the total number of positively identified Ivalls in the census to 88.
It costs £3.50 to download the image of a census return, which contains information not in the index. I have purchased the one showing my great grandparents George (aged 67, a retired cabinet maker) and Alice Eliza (65) Ivall. They were visiting their daughter Rose Lily, who had married Walter Edwin Kebbell and lived at 9 Medina Avenue, Newport, Isle of Wight. The house had 6 rooms. Google Street View shows this to be one of a terrace of houses, which look to be quite large. Walter (aged 37) and Rose (35) are listed at the address with their children Joyce (7) and Winifred (6). Walter's occupation is recorded as "Brewer's manager, bottling dept" working for Whitbread Co Ltd at the Wighthall Brewery, Quay St, Newport. This is about half a mile from 9 Medina Avenue. The census was taken in June 1921, so presumably George and Alice (who lived in Hackney, London) were visiting their daughter for a summer holiday.
If you download any other 1921 census Ivall images,
please let me know.
Leslie was descended from Alexander "Sandy" Ivall (1831-1911), who emigrated to Canada from Scotland in about 1837. Alexander married Jane Kerr and they had 10 children. Their third child, also called Alexander (1855-1922), married Sarah Baldwin and had 6 children including Joseph William Ivall (1880-1957) who married Ann Kolesar in 1907. They had 9 children, Leslie being the third youngest.
An obituary for Leslie is at https://memorials.northridgefuneralhome.com/leslie-ivall/4636368/
