Rev Edward Constable ALSTON [3911]

  General Notes:

At the age of 18, Edward sailed in the S. S. Flemenco to South America as an apprentice, and then on a four mastered barque, the Jordan Hill to Australia, and joined the 12th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, ANZAC and took part in the first Gallipoli landing and in the attack on Tasmania Point.

Census 1911
Edward C Alston
Age in 1911: 16
Estimated birth year: abt 1895
Relation to Head: Boarder
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Wispington, Lincolnshire
Civil Parish: Chigwell
County/Island: Essex
Country: England
Street address: The Grammar School, Chigwell School, Chigwell
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Boarder On school House
Registration district: Epping
Registration District Number: 189
Sub-registration district: Chigwell

Name: Edward Constable Alston
Estimated birth year: abt 1894
Age: 20
Port of Departure: Glasgow
Port of Arrival: Sydney, New South Wales
Voyage Arrival Date: 22 Jun 1914
Vessel Name: Jordan Hill
Ancestry

Australian Imperial Force
Attestation Paper of Persons Enlisted for Service Abroad.
No 1013
Alston Edward Constable
Unit 12th Infantry Batt 3rd Supply Brigade
Joined 12 Sep 1914.
Born Wispington LIN
Age 19yrs 8mths
Farmer
Apprenticeships, Liverpool Pacific Steam Navigation Co, 6mths.
Not married
Father Rev F S Alston Scrivelsly Rectory Horncastle LIN
No convictions
4 yrs Officer Training Corps, Chigwell, England
Never rejected unfit.
Signed E C Alston 12 Sep 1914.

Australian Electoral Rolls
Edward Constable Alston
Gender: Male
Electoral Year: 1925
Subdistrict: Kerang
State: Victoria
District: Wimmera
Country: Australia
Residence Address: Gonn Crossing
Occupation: Citrus Grower

Edward Constable Alston
Gender: Male
Electoral Year: 1936
Shrubland Heatherton Rd Dandenong
Subdistrict: Ferntree Gully
State: Victoria
District: Flinders
Country: Australia
Farmer

Edward was ordained and was Rector of Clifton, in Co. Galway,
Ireland for a number of years (1950-?). He married twice, first on 6.1.1921 and secondly 2.8.1957.
In 1971 he was living at Bishopstown House, Warminster, Wiltshire.

The Reverend Edward Constable Alston was the incumbent at Wrenthan Rectory from 1929 until 1936. He held the British tench and rudd largest fish records in the same year. The Rudd record lasted for many years.
http://joytownsend.sharepoint.com/Pages/WrethamInfo.aspx

Norfolk Record Office: Parish Records of Illington
Catalogue Ref. PD 488
Creator(s): Church of England, Illington Parish, Norfolk
Miscellaneous
FILE - Memorandum of reading in of the Rev. Edward Constable Alston as incumbent of Wretham with Illington - ref. PD 488/23 - date: 1927
Ref A2A unproven.

1939 Register
The Vicarage Veryan , Truro R.D., Cornwall, England
Edward C Alston 08 Jan 1895Clerk In Holy Orders
Also in the house was:
Stella FAlston 16 Nov 1890 Private Means the wife of Allan F Alston both of South Africa

The Times 17 November 1977 pg 17 col F.
THE REV E C ALSTON.
D.B. writes: The Rev Edward Constable Alston died after a short illness in Norwich at the age of 82. He was born in 1893 the second son of the Rector of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire and, on his mother's side he numbered among his forebears Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer. At the age of 18, he sailed in the S. S. Flemenco to South America as an apprentice, and then on a four mastered barque, the Jordan Hill to Australia, and joined the 12th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, ANZAC and took part in the first Gallipoli landing and in the attack on Tasmania Point.
He took Holy Orders in 1923 and among various incumbencies he was vicar of East Wrentham in Norfolk from 1927 to 1936 and thereafter in Ireland. He will be remembered as one of the last Great Sporting Parson's, being a fine shot, and an outstanding fisherman, with immense knowledge of a wide range of fish, in particular salmon and pike. He was until recently, the holder of the record for both tench and rudd at 4.5lb caught at Wrentham, Norfolk, in 1933. He was also a knowledge expert on late 18th and 19th century sporting guns. One of his hobbies was making models of sailing ships. He was twice married and is survived by his widow, Lilias Alston.

Alston Edward Constable of Orchard House to Norwich Rd Hetherset Norwich died 7 November 1977. Probate Ipswich 25 January 1978 £15,762 781100224Y
National Probate Calendar

  Research Notes:

Ref: http://www.thepeerage.com/p43505.htm#i435049

Reference: BT 400/3459/12A
Description: Ship: Jordanhill; Official number: 98700
. . . . . . Edward Constable Alston; rank/rating, Apprentice; year of birth, 1895; place of birth, Glasgow; Indentured at Glasgow in 1914. . . . .
Date: 1915
Held by: National Maritime Museum not available at The National Archives

Edward Constable Alston
Death year
Burial year
Purchase date 13 May 1922
Place Brompton County Middlesex
Document type Grave purchases
Burial number(s) 174672, 176185
Plan number 176185
Burial book number 174672
Piece description Brompton Cemetery Grant Receipt Book No. 7:
Burial Book references 127558-176312;
Burial Record references 129446-177791
Records year range 1886-1925
Archive reference WORK 97/64 Record set Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery Records

Edward married Ethel Clara [25861] [MRIN: 9299].

Edward next married Lilias Erroll Audley Beresford HAY [18903] [MRIN: 6798], daughter of Lewis John Erroll HAY 9th Bart. of Park [18904] and Elizabeth Anne MACDONALD [18905], on 28 Aug 1957. (Lilias Erroll Audley Beresford HAY [18903] was born on 23 Jul 1906 and died on 9 May 1986.)