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West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 09 October 1924
Mr. William Joseph Starkey Barber- Starkey of Beaconsfield, Manor-road, Worthing, died on July 10th last. leaving gross estate of the value of £68,318, with net personalty £52,531 8s 7d. Mr. Roger John Kinloch Barber -Starkey of Cotsbrook. Shifnal, Salop. Mr. Charles Cecil Barber-Starkey, of Dernford Hall, Saxmundham. Suffolk, farmer, sons, and Mr. George James Brodie, of The Gables. Wokingham, Berks, the executors. Testator having power of appointment over sums amounting to about £140,000 under the provision of the Wills of his uncle, Joseph Starkey and his aunts, Hannah Starkey and Sarah Starkey, of Hutton Ambo, Yorks. and having already appointed £55,000, part thereof, for his children, he now appoints £500 each to his sons Roger John Francis Waugh, and Charles Cecil, £300 each to his four daughters, £5,000 to his son Roger John, £2,000 to his son, Francis Waugh, £1,000 to his son, Charles Cecil, and the remainder of the funds between his sons, Roger, Francis and Charles. Testator left £1,000, the use of his residence, Beaconsfield, and furniture, and during widowhood, £1,200 a year to his wife. £100 to G. J. Brodie, £1,000 in trust for his daughter, Georgina Blanche Elaine Legard. A sum to be ascertained in trust for his daughter, Margaret Sarah Mary Josephine Brodie. The residue of his property in trust for his sons, Roger, Francis, and Charles.
Census and miscellaneous information
Living at Darley Lodge, Darley, Derbyshire. William Henry Barber, 56yrs, widower, Clergyman without care of souls, son, William Joseph Starkey Barber, 23yrs.
Living at the Hall, Huttons Ambo, Yorkshire. Sarah Starkey, Hd., 62yrs, Owner of estate, William Joseph Starkey Barber, 33yrs, Nephew, wife, Margaret, 28yrs, 4 children, Margaret 5, Georgina 4, Aimee 2, William 1, plus 7 domestic servants. N.B. Huttons Ambo is really two villages, High Hutton and Low Hutton. Ambo is latin for 'both', so Huttons Ambo means 'Both Huttons'.
42, Brooke Street, London. (Hotel) William Joseph Starkey Barber, 42yrs, Barrister, wife, Margaret A., 38yrs, daughter, Georgina, 14yrs.
Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, Sussex. William Joseph Barber Starkey, 54yrs, Barrister-at-Law, wife, Margaret A., 48yrs, daughter, Aimee Josephine, 27yrs.
CAPTAIN W.H.J. BARBER-STARKEY - eldest son of William Joseph and Margaret
Royal Field Artillery - Small Houses 94 - 96
Aged 34 Sept. 10th 1914
Trinity College, Cambridge
Captain Barber-Starkey was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery from the Forfarshire Militia in 1900, was promoted Lieutenant in 1903, and Captain in 1912. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force on August 17th, 1914. He died from wounds, received on August 26th, 1914, in the Battle of Le Cateau.
On September 2nd he was officially reported 'missing,' and was twice afterwards unofficially reported a prisoner of war at Torgau, unwounded.
His parents received information of his death through the Red Cross International Agency of Prisoners of War, Geneva. He died on September 10th 1914, in a German Field Hospital at Le Cateau, where he is buried.