SHIRES Family Tree

with links to British India

 

info from Reginald Shires RegShires@aol.com

 

Joseph SHIRES of England married ??, children:

  1. Henry Shires (b 1829, d 10 Nov 1854 Secunderabad,  of Fever)

Next Generation
Henry SHIRES, a fifer in the 6th Regiment, an army unit of the English East India Company (b 1829, d 10 Nov 1854 Secunderabad,  of Fever) at 19yrs, on 17 Oct 1848, at Bellary Trinity Church, South India, married 15yr Charlotte GODFREY, (daughter of Charles Godfrey), .  They have two children:

  1. Charles Henry Shires, (b 6 Jun 1852 Secunderabad)

  2. Priscilla Shires, (b 5 April 1854 Secunderabad). Priscilla Shires becomes headmistress at Kotagiri.

Next Generation

Charles Henry SHIRES (b 6 Jun 1852 Secunderabad) at 25yrs on 28 Jul 1875 in Madras married 17yr Primrose RENAUX, (daughter of Antoine Denis Renaux )   Charles Henry and Primrose Shires have two sons,

  1. Samuel William Shires (b 2 Dec 1886)

  2. Reuben Shires.  

  3. Pansy Isabel Shires (b 1918)

Next Generation

Samuel William SHIRES, (b 2 Dec 1886) at 23yrs at Kolar Gold Fieldsmarried 16yr Elizabeth SNUGG, (daughter of Alfred Snugg)  They have a son

  1. Charles Antoine Shires, (b 19 Jun 1910 at Kolar Gold Field)

Reuben SHIRES married Mary Evelyn ?, children:

  1. Winifred Irene Shires (b 11 Jan 1906, c 26 Jan 1906, d 4 Mar 1906 Kolar Gold Fields)  

  2. Muriel Maud Shires (b 11 Mar 1909, c 14 May 1909 Oorgaum)

  3. Thomas Shires (b 8 Feb 1911, c 6 Apr 1911 Bangalore)

  4. William Archibald Shires (b 6 Mar 1913, c 2 Apr 1913, d 2 Apr 1914 Bangalore, age 1)

  5. Nancy Blanche Shires (b 10 Feb 1916, c 29 Mar 1916 Kolar Gold Fields)

  6. Percy Melvin Shires (b 10 Feb 1916, c 29 Mar 1916 Kolar Gold Fields)

  7. Sidney Charles Shires (b 7 May 1917, c 29 Jun 1917 Bangalore)

Pansy Isabel SHIRES (b 1918) at 20yrs on 3 Jan 1938 in Bangalore married 36yr Foreman/Engineer at Chrome Mines in Mysore Fergus Neil BROWNE (b 9 Oct 1896, c 29 Nov 1896, son of Henry Edward Neville & Charlotte Browne), Children:

  1. Ivy Edna Browne (b 25 Oct 1938, c 27 Nov 1938 Bangalore)

  2. Derrick Ronald Browne (b 22 Jun 1940, c 3 Jul 1940 Bangalore)

  3. Daphne Cynthia Browne (b 12 May 1944, c 26 May 1944)

Next Generation

Charles Antoine SHIRES, (b 19 Jun 1910 at Kolar Gold Field) at 20yrs at Richmond Town Methodist Church, Bangalore, married 20yr Florence Amelia BROWNE, They have three sons:

  1. Reginald Neville, (b 2 Oct 1933)

  2. Harold Trevor Shires (d 8 March 8, 1942, age 3)

  3. Harold Samuel Shires (b 3 May 1946).

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