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Herbert Henry Rumball (born in Pera, Constantinople 1865) and Mary Rumball nee Stanton, his first wife.
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Adeline May, eldest child of Herbert and Mary Rumball, and her daughter Anne, who had married a Dunbar.
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Another shot of Adeline May Rumball Dunbar, grand-daughter of Adeline Eliza nee Hanson, Born in Canada 1890.
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Some of the other children of Herbert and Mary Stanton.
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Cyril Henry Rumball, about 1897.
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Brothers Herbert Charles and Cyril Henry Rumball 1916 Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Gertrude Rumball (nee Froess) and Helen, the wife of Cyril Henry with their first child, me.
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My brother James Cyril Rumball, son of Cyril, serving with the Navy Band during WWII.
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The ring has a true story as well as the story in question. I took it to a jeweler and he said it contained much more gold than is used in our jewelry here, however it has no stamp or markings. We have a place here in Erie now called the Dickinson Tavern but which was once called The Perry Memorial House, as it was supposed to have been where Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry stayed during his visit to Presque Isle Fort. This was the Family home of Mary Stanton Rumball’s family for a number of years and this ring was lost while she or one of her sisters was over-turning the garden. Several years later, when my dad came home from sea, he was a ships carpenter, he was again turning over the garden and found the ring. On this time ashore he also met and married my mother within a week. We always had a boat but he never went to sea again. This is how we came into possession of the ring. It also has a tiny chip from when it was buried in the garden for several years. This ring was not treated as a prized possession. It is a working ring. The oval stone is not large enough to have been warn by a man, probably not quite 3/4 inch in length.
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Herbert Henry Rumball’s Birth Certificate.
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Portrait of Colonel Francis Maceroni (1788–1846), whose memoirs were dictated to Henry Rumball’s younger brother Thomas when the boy was only about 9 yrs old.
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Census returns of England, 1861, Adeline E. Hanson marked as Banker’s daughter, aged 21 at the time and residency, Farnham Royal, a village in Buckinghamshire.
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Census returns of England, 1881, showing Adeline E. ‘Rumble’ (sp) living in Kensington, London, together with her 15 year old son Herbert Henry.
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The Turkish rug?
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The processional cross which was donated to the church by Dame Giulia Vaillant.
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Close-up of the inscription on the base of the cross mentioning Dame Giulia.