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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Ida Josephine Langdon

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 19 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Langdon 
  • Mother:
  • Louisa Christine Gout   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Apr 1837 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jun 1895 
  • Death Location:
  • Paris, France 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Buca Anglican Cemetery, Smyrna (now İzmir), Turkey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Bowen Rees
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Apr 1856 
  • Marriage Location:
  • British Consul General's Office, Smyrna (now İzmir), Turkey 
  • Child:

  Hélène Gertrude Rees (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Ida Josephine Langdon

  • ¹ Birth Registration for Helen Gertrude Rees, Reg. District: Birkenhead, 1869, Vol. 08A, p. 483.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/16/2017).
  • ³ GRO Consular Marriages (1849-1965), Marriage record for Thomas Bowin [sic] Rees and Ida Josephine Langdon.
  • ⁴ Marriage registration for Thomas Bowen Rees and Ida Josephine Langdon, Consular Marriages: 1856, Smyrna, Turkey.
  • ⁵ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 52.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #85245, Application for Robert Cecil Cumberbatch.
  • ⁷ Rees, Tom, Merchant Adventurers in the Levant: Two Families of Privateers, Consuls and Traders 1700-1956, Stawell, Somerset: Talbot Publishing (2003), 112-121.
  • ⁸ 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.

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