Ripsima Annie Gaspar 1870-1955
Ripsima Anne Gaspar was born to Nicholas Malcolm Gaspar & Hosannah Queenie Jordan on 6/12/1870 in Calcutta , baptised 22/1/1871 - Ancestry India baptisms & IGI .
She went to boarding school in Hove England, 1881C.
1908. She married William Joseph Bennison, contractor, in Christ Church, Paddington on 6/10/1908, her mother a witness - image on Ancestry .
From left: ? , William J Bennison?, Ripsima and Dwight- photo ~1908-1911
1911. Seemingly no children: in 1911C, he from Killegan, Co. Wicklow. He dies 1911, leaving £10000.
Ripsima, 'Auntie Ripsy' made the dream marriage - to a very wealthy man who died within months! They lived on Chelsea embankment (see photo + Queenie); she lived her final years alone near Brighton, dying in the late 50s I think. Her husband had serious shareholdings in the London Poster Company; they were subdivided through the family through the generations, still leaving me with a £21,000 shareholding when Dad died 21.7.1979 - alas all gone! She gave Dad £21 for his 21st birthday. My Hugh has a magnificent Chinese silk rug of hers.
1912. She, Ripsima Bennison, is a witness to her brother's, Gregory's, marriage -photo below
I suspect Ripsima is the lady at the back next to the groom Gregory
1955. Ripsima Bennison dies, 22/4/1955, aged 84, Cuckfield, Jun, 1954 .Probate £32030, to Gregory Hugh Walter Gasper & Joan Queenie Hickson [ her niece, Frederick's daughter]