Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Hélène Gertrude Rees

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• • Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Bowen Rees 
  • Mother:
  • Ida Josephine Langdon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 May 1869 
  • Birth Location:
  • Liscard, Wallasey, Cheshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Aug 1928 
  • Death Location:
  • Ravenstone, Royston Park Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex, England 
  • Burial Date:
  • 17 Aug 1928 
  • Burial Location:
  • Brompton Cemetery, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Alfred Cumberbatch
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Jan 1891 
  • Marriage Location:
  • British Consul General's Office, Smyrna (now İzmir), Turkey 
  • Children:
  
  

  Robert Cecil Cumberbatch

  Henry Carlton Cumberbatch (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Hélène Gertrude Rees

  • ¹ Birth certificate for Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, Image posted online by Bob Cumberbatch at www.cumberbatch.org.
  • ² Birth Registration for Helen Gertrude Rees, Reg. District: Birkenhead, 1869, Vol. 08A, p. 483.
  • ³ Birth registration for Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, Consular Births, 1900, Smyrna, Turkey.
  • ⁴ Death registration for Hélène Gertrude Cumberbatch, Reg. District: Hendon, 1928, Vol. 03A, p. 278.
  • ⁵ Deceased Online: Central Database for UK Burials and Cremation, Brompton Cemetery, Burial record for Heline [sic] Gertrude Cumberbatch.
  • ⁶ England and Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, Birth record for Helen Gertrude Rees.
  • ⁷ England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Probate record for spouse Henry Alfred Cumberbatch.
  • ⁸ GRO Consular Marriages (1849-1965), Marriage record for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch and Helene Gertrude Rees.
  • ⁹ Marriage registration for Henry Alfred Cumberbatch and Hélène Gertrude Rees, Consular Marriages: 1891, Smyrna, Turkey.
  • ¹⁰ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 53-54.
  • ¹¹ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #85245, Application for Robert Cecil Cumberbatch.
  • ¹² Who's Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary, London: Adam and Charles Black; New York: The Macmillan Company (1907), 424.
  • ¹³ 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.
  • ¹⁴ 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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