Walter Robert Oliver Hyslop[1]
1860 - 1942 (82 years)
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Name Walter Robert Oliver Hyslop Birth 19 Feb 1860 Alverstoke,,,Hampshire,United Kingdom 
[2] Gender Male Death 14 Oct 1942 Person ID I18090 My Genealogy Last Modified 30 Jan 2021 | Edit
Father Walter George Hyslop, b. 17 Apr 1823 Mother Sarah Hoddy Marriage 10 Aug 1858 United Kingdom,,,, Family ID F302713963 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Louisa Bamber, b. 12 Nov 1868, Pietermaritzburg,South Africa d. 19 Feb 1944 (Age 75 years) Marriage 7 Jun 1894 Newcastle,Natal,South Africa [3] - _HTITL: Husband
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Children 1. Walter George Hyslop, b. 15 Jul 1895 d. 10 Apr 1975, Johanesburg,Transvaal,South Africa (Age 79 years)2. Florence Margery Hyslop, b. 1 Jan 1897 d. 17 May 1976, Umtali,Rhodesia, (Age 79 years)3. Redvers Willoughby French Hyslop, b. 17 Jan 1900 d. 8 Jun 1975, Johanesburg,Transvaal,South Africa (Age 75 years)4. Clifford Kenneth Hyslop, b. 7 Oct 1903 d. 26 Jul 1958, Pretoria,Transvaal,South Africa., (Age 54 years)5. Cyril William Hyslop, b. 4 Sep 1906, South Africa d. 25 May 1988, Harare,Zimbabwe., (Age 81 years)6. Laurence Cuthbert Hyslop, b. 12 Aug 1908 d. 12 Jun 1942, Egypt (Age 33 years)7. Humphrey John Hyslop, b. 11 Jan 1910 d. 16 May 1997, Pretoria,Transvaal,South Africa., (Age 87 years)8. Douglas Hyslop, b. 1 Oct 1911 d. 12 Mar 2005, Johanesburg,Transvaal,South Africa (Age 93 years)Family ID F302714077 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Apr 2020 | Edit
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Notes - geni:about_me WALTER ROBERT OLIVER HYSLOPuld say that probably one of his greatest attributes was his honesty and also his absolute conviction that one could never compromise with the truth.his excursions to the great city of London, his cross channel trips to the Continent, his playing cricket for the Hampshire Colts were all part of a growing up process.an Government was busy with colonisation of the Belgian Congo as it was then known and King Albert the first of Belgian held a symposium in Brussels to recruit adventurous young men to pioneer this plan. I have a feeling that theBritish Government had something to do with this. My father with other young bloods attended the conference and they were greatly impressed. Who could possibly think of studing medicine when the mysteries of the jungle beckoned and the beat of the tom-tom throbbed in the tropical surround? So in due course he and his friends set sail for darkest Africa where he was to spend the next few years in the Congo.egion and then to re
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NOTE: CONT2 CONT My father was born in Gosport Southhampton on 19th February 1860 and died in Pretoria on 14th October 1942 where he is buried in the same grave with my mother.
NOTE: CONT2 CONT He was a man of impeccable character, tall, handsome and always well dressed. He had an easy and confident manner and was able to communicate with all those with whom he came in contact, irrespective of their station in life. I wo
NOTE: CONT2 CONT In all the stories that he weaved round about his life it could be gathered that life was a great adventure and that the big and small happenings were of equal importance. His sallies on the sea in his youth in any type of craft,
NOTE: CONT2 CONT After he had completed his schooling he was sent to London to take up a career. Apparently he was enrolled at the Medical School but alas this venture into the mysteries of the human body was short lived. About this time the Belgi
NOTE: CONT2 CONT I think one can assume that what the Belgian Government and perhaps the British Government had in mind was for these young medical students to do a spell in the Congo on research into the scourge of the many fevers afficting the r
NOTE: CONT2 CONT As a relic of this part of his life I have a heavy ebony tree walking stick with a silver cap. It was inevitable that he would fall a victim to the many types of fever, particularly malaria and black-water, whilst in this area, as
NOTE: CONT2 CONT He was a great story teller but never worried about making notes of happenings in his life. I would say that his sojourn in London at the Medical School, in the Congo and farming at "Giba" occupied the decade 1880 to 1890, give or
NOTE: CONT2 CONT On the 7th June 1894 he married Louisa Bamber in Newcastle Natal - "Giba" is not too far from Newcastle hence it is reasonable to assume that he was still farming at that time. Later in this narrative I have recorded briefly the s
NOTE: CONT2 CONT About 1894/5 my father gave up farming and joining the ZASM (Zuid Afrikaansche Spoorwagen Maatschappy) the forerunner of the South African Railways and Harbours. He was posted to Barberton in the Transvaal as a Supervisor, where t
NOTE: CONT2 CONT The family spent quite a few years in this area and my father took an interest, as a hobby, in prospecting for gold and other minerals in the many creeks that abound the area. When I was stationed for a short time in the Military
NOTE: CONT2 CONT He had a sad and most unusual experience during his term in Barberton for in 1900/1901 during the Anglo Boer war, the Hampshire Regiment did a spell of duty in the area. My father was delighted to meet many of his old friends from
NOTE: CONT2 CONT Before the founding of the Union of South Africa in 1910 he was transferred to the Orange Free State and retired on pension in Bethlehem in 1920 as Inspector of the North Eastern region of the Railways of the Free State. In 1928 t
NOTE: CONT2 CONT Douglas Hyslop
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- geni:about_me WALTER ROBERT OLIVER HYSLOPuld say that probably one of his greatest attributes was his honesty and also his absolute conviction that one could never compromise with the truth.his excursions to the great city of London, his cross channel trips to the Continent, his playing cricket for the Hampshire Colts were all part of a growing up process.an Government was busy with colonisation of the Belgian Congo as it was then known and King Albert the first of Belgian held a symposium in Brussels to recruit adventurous young men to pioneer this plan. I have a feeling that theBritish Government had something to do with this. My father with other young bloods attended the conference and they were greatly impressed. Who could possibly think of studing medicine when the mysteries of the jungle beckoned and the beat of the tom-tom throbbed in the tropical surround? So in due course he and his friends set sail for darkest Africa where he was to spend the next few years in the Congo.egion and then to re
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Sources - [S251] Hyslop Family Tree, (August 24, 2008).
- [S1375] England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008, (familysearch.org), Birth Walter Robert Oliver Hyslop (Reliability: 3).
- [S5] South Africa, Natal Province, Civil Marriages, 1845-1955, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDC2-RWZ : 10 March 2018), Walter Robert Oliver Hyslop and Louisa Bamber, 07 Jun 1894; citing Newcastle, Natal, South Africa; 00117; National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria; 1,2 (Reliability: 3).
- [S251] Hyslop Family Tree, (August 24, 2008).