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Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Robert William Cumberbatch

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Abraham Parry Cumberbatch 
  • Mother:
  • Caroline Chaloner   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 9 Feb 1822 
  • Christening Location:
  • Tonbridge, Kent, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 29 Mar 1876 
  • Death Location:
  • Smyrna (now İzmir), Turkey 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Louisa Grace Hanson
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  • Child:

  Henry Alfred Cumberbatch (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • “Foreign-Office, January 12, 1858 - The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Robert Cumberbatch, Esq., to be Her Marjesty's Consul at Berdiansk, on the Sea of Azoff.” - The Edinburgh Gazette, 26 JAN 1858, p. 150

• Additional marriages for Robert William Cumberbatch

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  • Spouse:
  • Ellen Lloyd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Sep 1843
  • Marriage Location:
  • Winkfield, Berkshire, England

• Sources for Robert William Cumberbatch

  • ¹ Birth registration for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch, Consular Births: 1858, Berdiansk, Russia.
  • ² England and Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, Baptism for Robert William Cumberbatch.
  • ³ England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Probate record for Robert William Cumberbatch.
  • ⁴ England Marriages, 1538-1973, Marriage record for Robert William Cumberbatch and Ellen Lloyd.
  • ⁵ Marriage registration for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch and Hélène Gertrude Rees, Consular Marriages: 1891, Smyrna, Turkey.
  • ⁶ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 53.
  • ⁷ The Edinburgh Gazette, 26 JAN 1858, No. 6774, p. 150.
  • ⁸ Who's Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary, London: Adam and Charles Black; New York: The Macmillan Company (1907), 424.
  • ⁹ Adams, Guy, "How Benedict Cumberbatch's family made a fortune from slavery", The Daily Mail, (accessed 06/25/2017).
  • ¹⁰ Ancestry.com, "The Surprising Link Between Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", (accessed 06/27/2017).
  • ¹¹ Furness, Hannah, "Benedict Cumberbatch and Alan Turing are related, genealogists claim", The Telegraph, (accessed 06/30/2017).
  • ¹² Marshall, George W., Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach, London: n.p. (1866), 39.
  • ¹³ 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.

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