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Gertrude Louisa Stirling (1860–1886)
Gertrude Louisa Dickinson (1886–1940)

1860–1940

Daughter of Waite Hockin Stirling and Louisa Jane Stirling. Travelled to the Falklands with her parents, returning to England after her mother’s death, and living in Dorset with her aunt and uncle. Married Alfred John Dickinson, a farmer in Argentina, in Buenos Aires in 1886, returning with him to England by 1901.

Sources

Argentina, National Census, 1895: Santa Fe, Belgrano, Las Rosas 210 (Familysearch.org, accessed 24 February 2020)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/1981/79/21), 1901 (RG13/2320/65/18)

England, Andrews newspaper index cards, 1790–1976 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 August 2018)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 August 2018)

St James’s Gazette, 1 January 1887, p. 15

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