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De Selvier Family p.3

Edward [Junior] under the name Carpentier De Selvier, married  Elizabeth Baker from Newton Abbot in 1860 and was living in Tormorham (an old area of Torquay) using the surname “De Selvier”.


From 1867 to 1886 Edward is found in Dublin working for the musical instrument dealers Cramer, Wood & Co., where he established a series of subscription concerts.  

Freeman's Journal Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 8 Dec 1865

Mills and De Selvier, from Cramer's well-known establishment in Regent-street, London, who are thoroughly acquainted with the pianoforte trade in all its details, have undertaken' the management of the Irish branch….

(J. B. Cramer & Co. was a musical instrument manufacturing, music-publishing and music-selling business in London.)


Freeman's Journal Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 19 Oct 1886 Advertisements & Notices

from E De Selvier, Esq, TO SELL BY AUCTION  (In consequence of the expiration of his lease), On the Premises, SEAPOINT MANOR, BLACKROCK, On WEDNESDAY, 3rd November, 1885, And following day, All the superb furniture, works of art, and other effects-, catalogues…


The children of Edward and Elizabeth: (their births are recorded in the Irish records, at least twice, with mistakes in the names, e.g. Cecil Mary, instead of Cary)


1. Beatrice Alice De Selvier born circa 1865 married George John Squires, a Bank Cashier of Park Cottage, Upper Richmond Road, Putney, on 07.01.1890 at St Michael and All Angels in the Parish of Chiswick.
                 1              Beatrice May Squires born circa 1898 Middlesex.


2. Annie Elizabeth De Selvier, born in Monkstown, 30th November 1867 (1911 Census, England, then resident in Hastings) (also recorded as Annie Lizzie Nellie De Selvier, mother -  Annie Eliza Noss)


3. Violet Rose Cecile De Selvier, born in Blackrock, about 1876 (1911 Census, England, then resident in Hastings)


4. Cecil Cary De Selvier, born (Ireland) in 1879, died 1880


London Standard, 13 Aug 1880

Death

DE SELVIER.— August 11, at Seapoint Manor, Blackrock,  county Dublin, Cecil Cary, only son of Edward and Annie [sic] De Selvier, aged eleven months

[N.B. Cary was the second name of Alice Rose De Selvier’s husband]


THE LAW IN ENGLAND.; A HIRED PIANO SEIZED AND SOLD, AND ORDERED TO BE RETURNED TO THE DEALER. ANOTHER IMPORTANT DECISION. Reported by the New York Times

From the London Music Trades Review, July 15. ();August 02, 1878, Section , Page 3

A case of considerable importance to the trade was decided in the Queen's Bench Division of the Irish High Court of Judicature on June 17. The decision was gained in an action by the plaintiff. Mr. De Selvier, a member of the firm of Cramer, Wood Co., to recover from the defendant, Mr. McNicoll, a commission agent on the Rathmines-road, a piano, value £45.  The facts of the case ...


Elizabeth died, in 1880, aged 48.  The family appear to have left Ireland.


Freeman's Journal Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 2 Mar 1887

FASHION AND VARIETIES

latest departures from Kingstown per Royal Mail steamers -... Edward De Selvier, Miss De Selvier

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