Friends of Hastings Cemetery
The 1891 census shows the household at Southfield, Silverhill
ANSON Archibald E H Head M M 64 Rtrd Mjr Gen Rl Artlry(Em'er) London -
ANSON Elizabeth M Wife M F 59 Ireland -
ANSON Elizabeth M L Dau S F 37 Living On Own Means Scotland -
BOUCHIER Tomasiana Sister S F 55 Living On Own Means Ireland -
EMERY Agnes Servnt S F 25 Cook Domestic Servant Worcestershire -
HANDCOCK Mary E Servnt S F 24 Lady's Maid Domestic Servant Kent -
RABBITTS Sarah A Servnt S F 26 Parlourmaid Domestic Servant Dorset -
WILLIAMS Irene Servnt S F 20 Housemaid Domestic Servant Northamptonshire -
EMERY Jane Servnt S F 16 Kitchenmaid Domestic Servant Worcestershire -
About Others and Myself, 1745 to 1920 ... With illustrations Unknown Binding – 1920
by Archibald Edward Harbord Anson (Author)
Extract -
In October 1884 I was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Sussex, and in November, 1889, elected a County council for East Sussex. In 1897, my property having been brought within the municipal boundary of Hastings, I was, by a provision in the Act of Parliament creating the extension of first boundary, removed from the office of Councillor. I was then elected a Councillor of the borough of Hastings, but I found that, at my advanced age, I could not stand the late hours and long drive home at night which my attendance at the Town Hall necessitated, sop at the end of the year, did not seek a continuance of the office.
Previous to this I had, for five years, been Chairman of the Burial Sanitary Authority of Hastings and St Leonards. On my resignation of the Chairmanship in 1904, I received a letter from the Clerk, of which the following is an extract:
"I am directed by the Rural Sanitary Authority of this Union to express to you their sense of the valuable services which you have rendered to the Authority during the years you have filled the office of Chairman, and to convey to you their regret that your services will be lost to the Authority."
In 1891 I lost my wife. It is not for me to speak of her character; but she obtained the lvoe of my relations and the esteem and respect of all those with whom she became associated, both at home and in the colonies in which we resided. -
- Anson Road is one of the main road sin Penang. Anson Road was named after Colonel (later Major General) Archibald Edward Harbord Anson, the Lieutenant Governor of Penang from 1867 to 1882, and Acting Governor of the Crown Colony of the Straits Settlements in 1871-
1872, 1873,1877, 1879- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Anson1880. There is also Anson Bridge. Anson Road in Singapore was also named after him. - There is a letter in The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: October 1, 1878-
September 30, 1880 addressed to Colonel Anson, thanking him for his hospitality and inviting him to stay with him and his wife should Colonel Anson ever find himself in America. - A toad, Stream toad genus Ansonia Stokiczka, collected in Penang, was named after Anson. (The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians By Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson)
- During the British protectorate era, the named was changed to Teluk Anson (Anson Bay), in honour of a British Officer and last Lieutenant-
Governor of Penang, Major- General Sir Archibald Edward Harbord Anson who drew the plan of the modern township in 1882. In 1982 during the centenary of the town’s establishment, the name was changed again to Teluk Intan (Diamond Bay) by the Sultan of Perak. - Crest -
Anson, Sir Archibald Edward Harbord, Esquire, of Southfield, Silverhill, St Leonards- on- Sea, out of a ducal coronet or, a spear- head erect ppr. Nil desperandum