Ancestry of
Henry Alfred Cumberbatch

(1858–1918)

Henry Alfred Cumberbatch

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Robert William Cumberbatch 
  • Mother:
  • Louisa Grace Hanson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jun 1858 
  • Birth Location:
  • Berdiansk, Russia (now Ukraine) 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Dec 1918 
  • Death Location:
  • Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England 
  • Burial Date:
  • 7 Dec 1918 
  • Burial Location:
  • Brompton Cemetery, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England 
  • Notes: 

  • Many online sources such as Wikipedia give Henry Alfred Cumberbatch's middle name as Arnold. However, as of June 2017 the sources cited by Wikipedia are themselves incorrect and unreliable. Primary sources, and many secondary sources, correctly give his middle name as Alfred.

• Marriages for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch

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  • Spouse:
  • Hélène Gertrude Rees
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Jan 1891
  • Marriage Location:
  • British Consul General's Office, Smyrna (now İzmir), Turkey

• Sources for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch

  • ¹ Birth certificate for Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, Image posted online by Bob Cumberbatch at www.cumberbatch.org.
  • ² Birth registration for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch, Consular Births: 1858, Berdiansk, Russia.
  • ³ Birth registration for Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, Consular Births, 1900, Smyrna, Turkey.
  • ⁴ Death registration for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch, Reg. District: Weymouth, 1918, Vol. 05A, p. 668.
  • ⁵ Deceased Online: Central Database for UK Burials and Cremation, Burial record for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch, (accessed 09/16/2017).
  • ⁶ Deceased Online: Central Database for UK Burials and Cremation, Brompton Cemetery, Burial record for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch.
  • ⁷ England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007, Death record for Henry A Cumberbatch.
  • ⁸ England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Probate record for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch.
  • ⁹ GRO Consular Birth Indices (1849 to 1965), Birth record for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch.
  • ¹⁰ GRO Consular Marriages (1849-1965), Marriage record for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch and Helene Gertrude Rees.
  • ¹¹ Marriage registration for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch and Hélène Gertrude Rees, Consular Marriages: 1891, Smyrna, Turkey.
  • ¹² Marriage registration for Henry Carlton Cumberbatch and Pauline Ellen Laing Congdon, Reg. District: Kensington, 1934, Vol. 01A, p. 283.
  • ¹³ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 53-54.
  • ¹⁴ The Times, 27 APR 1934, Wedding of Henry Carlton Cumberbatch and Pauline Ellen Laing Congdon, (accessed 06/26/2017).
  • ¹⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #85245, Application for Robert Cecil Cumberbatch.
  • ¹⁶ Who's Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary, London: Adam and Charles Black; New York: The Macmillan Company (1907), 423-424.
  • ¹⁷ Adams, Guy, "How Benedict Cumberbatch's family made a fortune from slavery", The Daily Mail, (accessed 06/25/2017).
  • ¹⁸ Ancestry.com, "The Surprising Link Between Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", (accessed 06/27/2017).
  • ¹⁹ Furness, Hannah, "Benedict Cumberbatch and Alan Turing are related, genealogists claim", The Telegraph, (accessed 06/30/2017).
  • ²⁰ Marshall, George W., Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach, London: n.p. (1866), 39.
  • ²¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 338.
  • ²² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 101.