Fourteenth Generation

4619. Robert Sivewright Chatfield was born on 26 September 1880 in Bloemfontein, Orange Freestate, South Africa. He died Pneumonia following Spanish influenza on 24 October 1918 at the age of 38 in Elmsett House, Kimberley, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. He was a Diamond dealer.. Md. his cousin

South Africa Magazine, 2 November 1918
DEATHS
CHATFIELD—At Elmsett House, Kimberley, from pneumonia following Spanish influenza, Robert Sivewright CHATFIELD, second son of the late George Eugene CHATFIELD, and grandson of the late Rev. Robert Money CHATFIELD, M.A., Vicar of Woodford, Salisbury, Wilts. By cable.

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Lieutenant R Chatfield, an excellent officer, has shown conspicuous gallantry.

Robert Sivewright Chatfield was the local golfing champion and one of the top amateurs of the time – in the early 1900s. He was also an officer with the Kimberley Light Horse during the Anglo-Boer War.

Robert Sivewright Chatfield and Dorothy Isabel Mary Scratchley were married on 1 August 1916 in St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. Dorothy Isabel Mary Scratchley, daughter of Charles Edward Scratchley and ? ?, was born on 3 January 1891 in South Africa. She died on 15 January 1980 at the age of 89 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. She was buried on 21 January 1980 in Kettering Crematorium, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. Death GRO 1st qtr 1980
CHATFIELD, Dorothy Isobel M 3JA1891 KETTERING 7 2370
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Cremated.
Find a Grave Memorial ID 178585119.
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England and Wales Census, 1911
Name Dorothy Scratchley
County Wiltshire
Parish West Lavington
Sub-District Lavington
Registration District Devizes
Gender Female
Age 13
Birthplace West Lavington, Wiltshire
Record Type Household

Robert Sivewright Chatfield and Dorothy Isabel Mary Scratchley had the following children: