John Chater Jordan 1852-1913 - ggrandfather of Robert Delster Jordan
Jordan Family tree
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John Chater Jordan . . . . . His wife, Caroline Scharff. . . . . Grandson Leonard Delster Jordan
7/11/2018 - in contact with Robert Delster Jordan , gggrandson- like Nigel- of Jordan Paul Jordan . "Jordan Paul Jordan married Anna Chater - Delhi. Their son John Chater Jordan married Caroline Scharf - Calcutta. Had son Samuel 1896 - 1965 married Iris Marklew, their children Leonard Delster ~1920, Norma, Derek and Robert, my uncles and aunt. Left India after the Second World War, most went to Australia and Dad to the UK where his 7 sons remained (3 wives) - Robert"
27/10/2019, Rob in Brighton. "You said one of sons of Leonard Delster Jordan (my father) was a Peter, we have no knowledge of a Peter. There was a son from Margerie his first marriage, a boy called Leonard. And two sons from my mother Patricia Jordan, who probably was not married. Kathy (second wife) had Four sons"
1852. John Chater Jordan was born to Jordan Paul Jordan and Anna Chater on 19/10/1852 Calcutta
1873. Member of the Victoria in Burma Grand Lodge, aged 21
1876. John Chater Jordan married Caroline A Scharff ( her father from Vienna) on 10/2/1876 in the Presbyterian Church Rangoon
1891C. John C Jordan, 38, law student, was living Goose Green, Camberwell
| John C | Jordan | Head | Married | Male | 38 | 1853 | Law Student | India |
| Caroline | Jordan | Wife | Married | Female | 31 | 1860 | - | India |
| Annie | Jordan | Daughter | - | Female | 14 | 1877 | Scholar | India |
| Mary | Jordan | Daughter | - | Female | 12 | 1879 | Scholar | India |
| Constance | Jordan | Daughter | - | Female | 11 | 1880 | Scholar | India |
| Irene | Jordan | Daughter | - | Female | 6 | 1885 | - | India |
| Paul | Jordan | Son | - | Male | 4 | 1887 | - | India |
| Emma | Stretton | Servant | Single | Female | 22 | 1869 | Nurse | Huntingdonshire, England |
| Margaret | Odonnell | Servant | Single | Female | 26 | 1865 | Cook Domestic | - |
| Ellen | Leadbeater | Servant | Single | Female | 16 | 1875 | Housemaid Domestic | Kent, England |
| Catherine | Jordan | Daughter | - | Female | 5 | 1886 | - | India |
1893. Samuel David Jordan born 9/6/1893 to John & Caroline in Rangoon . Most Ancestry trees with his parents in do not include him!! Just the Jordan Tree of Dean Jordan, a cousin of Robert's, and an Avis tree have him . I suspect Dean is a son of Derek Bernard Jordan?
1913. John Chater Jordan, 61, Barrister at law of Rangoon, died 9/1/1913 Calcutta, aged 60 years, 2 months and 20 days -Fibis card
Did his wife, Caroline Jordan, really die, aged 69, in Reigate , buried there 19/11/1921 as in Taylor Ancestry tree? Her 1881C age would give her as only 61 in 1921
1919. Samuel David Jordan married Iris Viola Marklew on 19/7/1919 in St Andrews Church, Calcutta ( Church of Scotland?) . He an engineer , Metropolitan Engineering Works. His address 8 Stove Road, Ballygunge, hers 108 Ripon Street Calcutta . She was born 1903, Dum Dum, Calcutta, died 1976 Sydney . Her parents Edward Jas Marklew 1867 & Amanda Elizabeth Hefferan had married in 1890 -Fibis . Edward Marklew was a Fire brigade Inspector, Calcutta, but also an engineer on his m.c. & a broker on his daughter's 1903 baptism
Samuel D Jordan died 1965
1920. Leonard Delster Jordan born 28/6/1920 to Samuel & Iris at 4 Park Lane Calcutta - Avis Family tree . Other children were: Derek Bernard Jordan 1925, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh -2010; Robert Jordan and Norma Jordan ~1922
Have not discovered the origin of the name Delster: I suspect it was the surname of a grandmother or ggrandmother, ie, that of Iris Marklew's mother or Edward Marklew's mother or of Caroline Scharff's mother
1947. Leonard D Jordan marries Marjorie E Wynne/Johnson/Jordan on 6/8/1947 Edmonton . She was born Johnson and had married Thomas Wynne in 1941, divorced him 1947 , and married yet again in 1973!
1947. Leonard D and Marjorie E Jordan living 228 Cricklewood Road, Hendon
They, seemingly, had 1 son , Leonard
1948/54 . Robert D Jordan born to mother Vickerson/Hicks- a Patricia, seemingly not married
1955. Leonard D Jordan divorces Marjorie E Johnson on 10/1/1955
1955. Leonard D Jordan marries Katherine V Gillen Surrey N E Mar
Children: John D 1956; Christopher C M 1957; Graham E S 1959; Walter R 1961
27/10/2019, from Rob in Brighton. "You said one of sons of Leonard Delster Jordan (my father) was a Peter, we have no knowledge of a Peter( seemingly I have removed this now : he was indeed issue of a Patrick Jordan & a Helen Gillen) . There was a son from Margerie his first marriage, a boy called Leonard. Kathy (second wife) had four sons. And two sons from my mother Patricia Howard/Jordan, who probably was not married, Robert D 1964 & Bruce E J 1965 ."
~1963.. Leonard D Jordan "marries " Patricia Howard - a common law wife. They have 2 sons: Robert D Jordan 1964 & Bruce E J Jordan 1965
1985. Leonard D Jordan , 65, dies Sydney,10/9/1985, address 42 Good Street, Westmead - parish burial record Ancestry .British Probate <£40000
John Chater Jordan married Caroline Scharf - Calcutta. Had son Samuel 1893 - 1965 married Iris Marklew, their children Leonard Delster /1920 Calcutta, Norma, Derek and Robert, my uncles and aunt. Left India after the Second World War, most went to Australia and Dad to the UK where his 7 sons remained (3 wives) - Robert"