Beaumont Rundle 1884 - 1917
On Saturday 9th February 2013 I went to a Vintage and Craft Fair that was held at St Mary's Church at Bramall Lane Sheffield. Whilst I was looking around the Fair I saw this plaque on the wall
ALSO OF
LIEUT. BEAUMONT RUNDLE AUSTRALIAN R.F.A. DEARLY LOVED YOUNGER SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED ON APRIL 15TH 1917 FROM WOUNDS HE RECEIVED IN ACTION WHILE SERVING IN FRANCE
I was rather puzzled as to why this memorial was on the wall of the church and so I decided to see if I could find out some further information on Beaumont. As always I first checked the CWGC site and found the following entry
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 15/04/1917
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Australian Field Artillery 4th Div. Ammunition Col.
Grave Reference M. 51.
Cemetery AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Additional Information: Son of George Edward and Emma Catherine Rundle; husband
of Barbara Rundle, of 39, Hunter St., Sydney, New South Wales. Native of Sydney,
New South Wales.
A further search revealed the following information - Red Cross Wounded and Missing - Beaumont Rundle - Rank: Lieutenant - Unit: 4th Divisional Ammunition Column
An excellent resource - from the file it seems as though Beaumont died at 6.30pm at Number 9 Casualty Clearing Station, The Somme from gunshot wounds to the abdomen. face and right shoulder. The file goes on to state that he was transferred there from Number 3 Casualty Clearing Station and on arrival he seemed to be stable but despite the attentions of some eminent surgeons his condition deteriorated suddenly and he died. The cause of death was the onset of septicaemia. His brother in law visited the Casualty Clearing Station and was given full particulars of Beaumont's sudden relapse, and said that he would forward the details to his wife.
His wife was called Barbara and is mentioned in the Kirkpatrick Family Archives - she was the daughter of Francis Henry and Grace Needham and was born 30 Sep 1885, Tenterfield , New South Wales. She married Beaumont in Queensland Australia in 1909
Beaumont also features on the website of his old school Armidale. And it was the information on this site that provided me with the "Sheffield Connection"
"From Glebe Point, Sydney. His father was George Edward Rundle.
At TAS a bit over one year from July 1901 to Sept. 1903. First Football XV and
Colours. Set broad jump record of 21 feet in 1902 which “held good for some
years".
After leaving school he wrote to the Armidalian "with affection for his old
School" from Foxlow, Bungendore.
Served in: The Armidalian Sept.1917 asserts that he served in the South African
War where his brother was killed, but this can not be true. He was still at
School during the South African War. He served with the 4th Division Ammunition
Column, Australian Field Artillery as Lieut. When War broke out he was In
England and enlisted as a Private in the Imperial Remount Unit. He later
received a commission and joined the Australian Field Artillery.
Killed in France aged 31 and one day. He died of wounds. He left a widow living
at "Kenwood", Sheffield, England.
Memorial — A memorial service was held for him In the Chapel on 26.4.1917."
The phrase "He left a widow (Barbara) living at "Kenwood", Sheffield,
England" made me think straight away of the Kenwood Hotel. The oldest part of
the hotel was built as the private residence of Sheffield cutlery manufacturer
George Wostenholm in 1845. He named the house Kenwood after a place of that name
he had visited near Oneida Lake in Upper New York State, some 180 miles east of
Niagara Falls.
The grounds had an Italian garden and terraces, pleasure grounds, a park,
vineries, peach and other glasshouses and an ornamental lake that were laid out
by Robert Marnock who was later responsible for the design of the gardens of the
Royal Botanic Society of London in Regent’s Park. In about 1868 Wostenholm
constructed the North Lodge with its imposing archway at the junction of Rundle
Road and Kenwood Road. From it a new drive was made round the north side of the
house leading under the stone arch of 1858 to the entrance front. On the front
of the North Lodge can be seen Wostenholm’s arms and crest, which was granted in
1868.
After his death in 1876 Kenwood Park, as it was then known, was inherited by his
widow Eliza and her second husband, Thomas Beaumont, added a major extension to
the house in 1882-3 on the north side. In March 1899 the estate then passed into
the hands of a group of Trustees who then in January 1922 sold the estate by
auction to Kenwood Ltd for £5,500.
The company adapted the house and it was opened as a residential hotel
called Kenwood. The inclusive en pension weekly terms for bedroom, lights and
attendance, baths, full table d’hote meals, afternoon tea and coffee after
dinner for a single room were 4 to 7 guineas, for a double room 8 to 14 guineas,
the charges varying according to the size and position of the room. Fires in
bedrooms were 3/- (15p) per day or 1/9 (7p) for an evening only. A private
lock-up garage was available for 7/- (35p) a week.
The hotel prospered and in about 1930 a new bedroom wing was built running east
from the main house. In 1956 work began clearing four greenhouses on the west
side of the garages to build a banqueting suite for Kenwood Hotel. This was
completed in 1958 and opened as Kenwood Hall.
In 1975 a new hotel, the Hotel St George, was built in the grounds of the
Kenwood Hotel. The new hotel had 48 single and 30 double bedrooms, many of them
in a three storey south facing wing overlooking the gardens and lake. The two
properties were combined in 1983 to form one hotel of 115 bedrooms. The new
luxury 4 star hotel was given the name Hotel St George. Over the next few years
the hotel changed hands and a number of developments took place. The level
ground, once part of Wostenholm’s terraced lawns, behind the main reception and
dining room block, was cut away to give a view of the lake, many trees were
planted. A £300,000 leisure complex was opened, with a heated pool, steam room,
Jacuzzi, showers, sun bed and rest room.
Then in November 2007 the property was bought by Principal Hayley Hotels and
Conference Venues and re-branded as the Kenwood Hall.
From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield;-
‘Near to this are two marble tablets, one in memory of ‘Lieut. William John
Scott Rundle, D.S.O., 6th Dragoon Guards, died, aged 25 , July 30, 1901, from
wounds received in action whilst serving in South Africa’; the other to ‘Lieut.
Beaumont Rundle, Australian R.F.A. ,died April 15, 1917, from wounds received in
action whilst serving in France.’
Both were sons of George E. Rundle, of New South Wales. These were erected by
their aunt, A.M. Rundle, Kenwood, Sheffield.
And so the memorial in St Mary's was erected by his Aunt. I then checked the 1911 Census and found the following entry for Kenwood
A.M. Rundle was
Annie Moncrieffe Rundle
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Condition Single Gender Female
Age 63 Estimated Year of Birth 1848
Occupation Private Means
Employed Yes Working at Home No
Place of Birth Hants Gosport
Enumerator Information
Address Kenwood Park Sheffield Parish Ecclesall Town Sheffield
Type of Building Private House Number of Rooms 21 Inhabited Yes
Reference RG14PN27785 RG78PN1591 RD509 SD5 ED7 SN193 Administrative County
Yorkshire (West Riding)
Registration District Ecclesall Bierlow Registration Sub District Ecclesall
South Enumeration District 7
Reference Information Folio 385 Page 1 Piece 27785 RD number 509 SD number 5 ED
number 7 Schedule 193
Confirmation of Annie's status as the head of Kenwood is given in the 1891 Census and 1901 Census. And she is also listed in the 1861 census
1861 Census Record
Personal Information
Name Eliza M Rundle
Age 20 Estimated Year of Birth 1841
Relationship to Head of Household Daughter
Address 11, High Street District Alverstoke, Alverstoke Parish Alverstoke
Administrative County Hampshire
Birth Place Gosport Birth County Hampshire
Reference Information Folio 101 Page 20 Piece RG90
Annie was the daughter of Dr W J Rundle of Gosport, Hampshire.
And this is the connection to Sheffield and Kenwood
George Wostenholm died on the 18th August 1876. He had been married three times: first wife Mary Hobson (d. 1853) second wife Frances Crookes (d. 1865) the daughter of a London merchant. They married on 8th August 1855. His third wife was Eliza M. Rundle (d. 1886) the daughter of W J Rundle of Gosport. George Wostenholm had no children. He was buried at All Saints Parish Church, Ecclesall
Marriage Record George Wostenholm
Year of Marriage 1868 Quarter of Marriage Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District Alverstoke Registration County Hampshire
Spouse's Surname Eliza Maria RUNDLE
Volume Number 2B Volume Page 738
Eliza was Annie's sister
His third wife Eliza re-married 6 years after George's death - her husband was Thomas Beaumont
Marriage Record Thomas Elliott Beaumont
Year of Marriage 1882 Quarter of Marriage Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District Westminster Registration County London
Spouse's Surname Eliza Maria WOSTENHOLM
Volume Number 1A Volume Page 896
But the marriage only lasted 4 years because in 1886 Eliza died
Death Record Eliza Maria Beaumont
Year of Registration 1886 Quarter of Registration Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District Ecclesall Bierlow Registration County Yorkshire
Age at Death: 45
Volume Number 9C Volume Page 232
There is a full and detailed report of Eliza's funeral in the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated 10th December 1886
The following day the same newspaper issued details of Eliza's will
On Eliza's death Kenwood must have passed on to Annie. Annie lived another 36 years after her sister dying in 1922 at the age of 74. She is buried in All Saints, Ecclesall.churchyard. Her death would explain the sale of the estate in 1922.
As a postscript I found this memorial in
and more importantly this
Sheffield Cathedral, South Aisle.
Memorial to Eliza Maria Wostenholm (1840-1886).
This window was erected by Annie Moncrieffe Rundle and George Edward Rundle in
affectionate remembrance of their sister Eliza Maria, wife of Thomas E Beaumont
and widow of George Wostenholm of Kenwood Park, Sheffield. Born December 11
1840. Died December 6 1886. "She hath done what she could."
The window merited a report in the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated friday 7th March 1890
And so Beaumont Rundle was the son of George Edward Rundle who was in turn Eliza and Annie's brother. George must have emigrated to Australia many years before.
In August 2014 I received the following information from a reader of this article. They also supplied me with a marvelous photograph!
"I have just read your article on the Rundle family & Kenwood Hall. You may be interested in the attached photograph which shows the servants to Miss Rundle taken outside the hall.
My ancestor was the under house maid Esther Everitt who was around 16/18 when this photo was taken possibly around 1901?
I am presuming the gentleman seated was the butler William Wright with house maid Mary Hauge & cook Florence Radell. The note on the post card suggested that the house maid domestic (Susan Dixon) was not available?
In November 2019 I received this information concerning the family
"After a couple of years break I’ve just gone back to sorting out some of the pile of papers associated with my family history, and as I have a family connection with the Rundle family I was interested to find the Beaumont Rundle page on your website.
I think I can add bits to your outline, but the key thing for me (and my cousin) is that I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the photo of the servants near the bottom of the page. Not only do we have the photo (although it is slightly different but taken at the same time) but Esther Everitt is also our ancestor – to be specific she was our grandmother marrying William Gretton in 1912 and having
two daughters who each had one child i.e. my cousin and I. We have no knowledge of any relations anywhere on that side of the family, and are naturally curious to know who they are! I realise that you cannot just give out contact details, but would there be any possibility for us to find out??
On the back of my photo my mother has written that her mum (Esther) is on the left which would make this 1901; but my cousin has a photo which could easily be the girl on the right (which would make it 1912) – oh to be able to pop back and ask!!
We had no idea until I started doing the research of the Wostenholm connection, but once you know and look at the street map around Kenwood – Rundle Road, Wostenholm Road etc. all makes some sense.
Thanks for the web-page, it’s very informative; and any help you can give would be very gratefully received"
Photograph kindly supplied by the Beaumont Archives
"Thomas Elliott Beaumont 1838-1899, who lived at Kenwood, was my great-great uncle or something like that. My father (quoting his father) would talk about "Uncle Tom." I am sure I have a photo of a group at Kenwood if you would be interested. The photo is from the 1880s and I think it shows him and his wife (who was Mrs Wolstenholm before) and her sister Miss Rundle and the Revd Sandford, of Sharrow.
Thomas Elliott Beaumont was the younger brother of Henry Beaumont of Grantham, solicitor, and George Beaumont of East Bridgford near Nottingham, a land surveyor. After Cambridge
Thomas was apparently articled to Henry but in 1870-1871 he went round the world in the course of which he wrote to George from Melbourne. From memory one of the details in the letter was that the ship ran out of champagne at some point so that he had had to make do somewhat! On his return he must have lived in London, indeed he was in St.James's area of Westminster when he married Mrs
Wostenholm. He died in 1899 and was buried at East Bridgford.
He left some superb pictures to the Nottingham museum. One is called "In Love," the artist Marcus Stone. I suppose these pictures were bought at London dealers and that they were at Kenwood, he seems to have gone on living there after his wife died.
His sister Anne Charlotte married the son of T Asline Ward a Sheffield manufacturer. From this marriage there were relations called Ward and Bedford, and Reid.
I believe the Bedfords ran a company at Lion Works, Sheffield."
"Anne Charlotte (b.1834; married at Bridgford 15 Sept. 1858t, Her
husband Frederick Ward was son of T. Asline Ward of Park House, Sheffield …...she died in 1890 aged 55 (death registered in Q3 1890 at Sheffield (Freebmd)) …. according to Ann's book, Frederick & Anne were parents of several children:- Frederick born July 1, 1859; died; Sydney Asline born May 14 1861-; Ann [or Anne] Frederica born May16 1864-; Beatrice born Sept 24 1865-; Henry born June 16 1867- ; Cecil Montague born ?Nov 8, 1868 and died ?Feb 22, [?year]; Frederick Phillip born June 5, 1870 and died June 25, 1870 (all these dates are from Ann's book)….. of these, the birth of at least Sydney was registered at Sheffield (freebmd)…. Sydney Asline Ward is mentioned in various patent and design applications and seems to have married Clara Rodger in 1903 (regd in Wakefield (freebmd))…. The will of T E Beaumont made in 1898 left legacies to the following children of his deceased sister Anne Charlotte Ward:- to Sidney Asline Ward £2,000; to Annie Frederica Bedford £2,000; to Beatrice Ward £1,500; to Henry Beaumont Ward £1,000….
Pictures
"In Love," by Marcus Stone
"The Offer," and "Accepted," both by Eugene von Blaas.
Artuk shows all these pictures (2 versions of the Marcus Stone one there, one being at Newcastle).
I suppose these must have been at Kenwood in TEB's lifetime. I think he had a life interest and stayed on there after his wife died. Eg census 1891, I think he was there on his own with loads of servants!
He and his brother George at East Bridgford both died in 1899 and their funerals a couple of days apart.
When I cleared out my uncle's house about 20 years ago I found a150th Anniversary (1792-1942) Commemorative Book by/about John Bedford & Sons Limited, Lion Works, Sheffield, produced by a Reginald Asline Bedford. This had no doubt been presented to my grandfather. I offered it to the Yorks. Arch. Soc. in Leeds and sent it to their then librarian Robert Frost."
Notes
1901 Census Record
Name Annie M Rundle
Relation to Head of Family Head
Age Last Birthday 53
Sex Female Profession or Occupation Living On Own Means Condition as to Marriage
Single
Where Born Hants Gosport
Address Kenwood Civil Parish Ecclesall Bierlow Town or Village or Hamlet
Sheffield Ecclesiastical Parish St Andrews Parliamentary Borough or Division
Ecclesall
County Borough, Municipal Borough or Urban District Sheffield Administrative
County Yorkshire Ward of Municipal Borough or Urban District Ecclesall
Reference Information Folio 61 Page 13 Piece 4358
1891 Census Record
Name Annie M Rundle
Age 43 Estimated Year of Birth 1848
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Occupation Living On Her Own Means
Address Kenwood Bank, Psalter Lane
District Ecclesall Bierlow, Ecclesall Bierlow Parish Ecclesall Bierlow
Administrative County Yorkshire (West Riding)
Birth Place Gosport Birth County Hampshire
Reference Information Folio 19 Page 32 Piece 3811
Annie Moncrieffe Rundle (d1922).
Daughter of Dr WJ Rundle of Gosport, Hampshire.
Sister of EM Beaumont of Kenwood, Sheffield.
Sources
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated 10th - 11th December 1886
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated 7th March 1890
Eccelsall All Saints Churchyard
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