The Colsell Family

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Family of John Colsil/Colsill/Colsell and Charlotte ?

Family of George Colsell and Phoebe

Family of George Colsell and Frances Stone

Family of George Colsell and Martha Newitt (marriage #1)

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NAME	PIX	BIRTH	LOCATION	DEATH	LOCATION	MARRIAGE	LOCATION	SPOUSE
George Colsell III		13 July 1868	Slough, Buckinghamshire, England	buried 30 April 1931	1)St. Andrew's, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England 2) ?	1) December 25, 1889 2) October 1902	1) Thame, Oxfordshire, England 2) ?	1) Martha Newitt 2) Emily Jane Rixon
Edith Eliza Colsell		16 June 1891	Thame, Oxfordshire, England	13 July 1972	buried Graffham Churchyard, West Sussex, England	12 December 1912	Thame, Oxfordshire, England	Albert Bates [1]
Charles Edward "Ted" Colsell		May 06, 1894	Thame, Oxfordshire, England	24 September 1915	WWI - Battle of Loos - buried near Calais, France [2]	~	~	~
Rose Lily Colsell		November 07, 1896	Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England (or Stokenchurch, Bucks)	June 02, 1973	Los Gatos, Santa Clara, California	July 07, 1917	San Francisco, San Francisco, California	James Sidney Dewhurst aka Sidney James McPherson
George Thomas Colsell		September 02, 1899	Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England	Betw. Oct-Dec. 1924	Brentford District, Middlesex, England	Betw. Jan-March 1924	Uxbridge, Middlesex, England	Mabel Edith Lindup[3]
Henry Frederick Colsell		January 26, 1901	Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England	April 30, 1903	Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England	~	~	~

[1] Edith Eliza Colsell Bates had one daughter, Edith Mary Phyllis Bates, b. 28 March 1916, Whirlbush Farm, Thames, Oxfordshire, England, m. Fred Coles abt. 1936, d. 5 July 1999, buried  Graffham Churchyard, West Sussex UK.

[2] Ted was Trooper #1622 in the Royal Horse Guards under the Commander of First Army, Sir Douglas Haig. The Battle of Loos was the largest British offensive mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I, cost more than 61,000 British casualties, mostly from the use of Chlorine Gas. "At Loos, the British employed poisonous gas for the first time in the war, releasing some 150 tons of chlorine from over 5,000 gas cylinders across no-man's land. The gas failed, however, to reach the German trenches and inflict any significant damage." More info here: This Day in History & The Long, Long Trail ... Grama used to say, "they killed their own men when the wind went the wrong way."

[3] Mabel Edith Lindup was born East Preston, December 1900, according to the 1901 census. Mabel and George had a baby daughter named Mabel, born April-June 1924 who died July-September 1924. George then died between Oct-Dec. 1924 of an inferction from a finger wound received while working as a butcher.

Family of George Colsell and Emily Rixon (marriage #2)

[1] Emily Jane Rixon bapt. 15 December 1867, St. Mary Crowell, Oxfordshire, father John (Labourer), mother Elizabeth; she was buried 2 Jan 1929, St. Andrew's, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England