Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameAlexander Dixie HAINWORTH, Half 3C1R
Birth6 Nov 1877, Darjeeling, Bengal, India
Death21 Mar 1963, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
OccupationSchool Teacher, School Master
EducationMaster Of Arts, Cambridge University
FatherFranke Parker HAINWORTH (1844-1926)
MotherMary Ann Rosamund DIXIE (1845-1927)
Spouses
Birth22 Jul 1864, Colchester, Essex
Death7 Feb 1956, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Marriage8 Aug 1908, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Notes for Alexander Dixie HAINWORTH
Full name, birth date and location, marriage date and location and death date location courtesy Brandon Deakes and Jenny Kendrick

India Select Births and Baptisms
Alexander Dixie Hainworth born November 6 1877, Kurseong, Bengal, India, baptism March 3 1878,Kurseong, Bengal, father Franke Parker Hainworth, mother Mary Ann Rosamond [Hainworth]

In the 1891 census “Hill Side”, Union Road, Crediton, Devon
Head Frances Tozen widow, age 71, boarding house keeper, born Newton St. Cyres, Devon
Daughter Francces M. Tozen, single, age 37, born Newton St. Cyres
Boarder Frank Hainworth, age 16, born Darjeeling, India
Boarder Alexander Hainworth, age 13, born Darjeeling, India

Cambridge University Alumni’
Alexander Dixie Hainworth
College: Sidney
Entered: Michaelmas 1896
'Admitted at a College. at SIDNEY, Oct. 1, 1896. Son of F. P. [Franke Parker], tea planter, of Assam, India. Born Nov. 6, 1877, at Darjeeling. School, Blundell's, Tiverton (Mr Francis). the formal admission of a student into the University as distinguished from his admission into a College. It occurred in each of the three terms, Lent, Easter, Michaelmas.';Michs. 1896; Scholar; B.A. 1899; M.A. 1919. Studied for six months in Germany, 1905. Assistant Master at St John's School, Montreal, for one year; at Hillbrow, Rugby, for one year; at Monkton Combe School, 1901-5; at Bishop's Stortford College, 1906-7; at Warwick School, 1907-33-. Blundell's School, Tiverton, Reg.; Schoolmasters' Directories

In the 1901 census Hillbrow, Barby Road, Rugby, Warwickshire
Headmaster Thomas Bainbridge Eden, married, age 44, schoolmaster J.P., employer, born Alresford?, Yorkshire
His wife, a secretary, a matron, 9 servants, and 4 tutors including
Alexander D. Hainworth, single, age 28 [should be 23], tutor, born India
And many boarders - schoolboys

In the 1911 census Woodlands, Cape Road, Warwick, Warwickshire
Head Alexander Dixie Hainworth, age 33, assistant schoolmaster - secondary school, born Bengal India (resident) British Subject by parentage
Wife Kate Hainworth, age 47, married 2 years no children born alive [by this marriage], born Colchester, Essex
1 servant

1939 England and Wales Register
176 Banbury Road, Oxford
1. Alexander D. Hainworth, born November 6 1877, married, Private Tutor
2. Kate Hainworth, born July 22 1864, married, unpaid domestic duties
3. Eva K. Pyne?, born September 17 1889, married, housekeeper
4. William Hainworth, born July 14 1864, widowed, civil servant retired
5.Mildred Jennings, born march 9 1869, single, secondary school teacher
6. Reginald Wimbush, born June 30 1923 single, pupil under private tutor
7. A cook
[William Hainworth would be a half brother to Alexander. Eva was Kate’s daughter from an earlier marriage.]]

Birmingham, West Midlands March 22 1963
Obituary
Mr. Alexander D. Hainworth
The death occurred at Warwick yesterday, of Mr. Alexander Dixie Hainworth, of 46, Bridge End, who for 31 years was classics master at Warwick School. He was 85. Born in India, and educated at Blunders School and Cambridge, Mr. Hainworth taught in Montreal and at Monkton Coombe and Bishops Stortford Schools. He went to Warwick in 1907 and from 1915 until he retired in 1938 he was in charge of the Junior House. He came out of retirement during the last war to teach at St. Edward’s School, Oxford

Excerpts from Family Research by Jack Scarr, a descendant of Kate Hainworth (nee Chaplin) (and Scarr by her first marriage) Shared on Ancestry by Jenny Kendrick
Reference to Kelly’s Directory for the year 1906 reveals a certain A. D. Hainworth, B.A. had recently been appointed to the Staff of Bishop’s Stortford college, then run by the East England Nonconformist School Company Ltd. His post at there school was non-resident and when he found lodgings very much to his liking with a religious and respectable widow Mrs. Scarr. His fellow-lodger was Mr Littlewood, curate at St. Michael’s, the parish church.
Destiny was to play a whimsical role, as Romance had come to 2 Chantry Road and there were no half measures about it. By coincidence both mother and daughter were being courted by devoted admirers. A. D. Hainworth, then aged 29, had fallen in love with Widow Scarr aged 47, and Rev. Mr Littlewood had fallen in love with Eva Scarr, then 19 years of age. A. D. Hainworth’s proposal of marriage was accepted, Mr. Littlewood’s was rejected.
. . .
Alexander Dixie Hainworth, the successful suitor, had had a somewhat deprived childhood , much of which was spent far from his parents. . . . His father had been a captain in square-rigged sailing ships but had, after some years, swallowed the anchor and settled down to tea growing in Assam. When still a child, Alec Hainworth had been sent home [England] to be educated at Crediton Grammar School. He was looked after by his maiden aunts, of whom he had eight in number. . . .
When Alec Hainworth was living in England, his mother had another son who lived to be 28 years of age, but Alec had never met him as distances were great and fares prohibitively expensive.

From Crediton he went to Blundell’s School and later to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, with a scholarship in Classics. After coming down from Cambridge in 1899 he taught at a prep school near Rugby, then spent a short time in Canada before returning to teach at Monkton Combe School, near Bath and later at Bishop’s Stortford College. Now he was planning to marry his landlady, he decided it was time for another move. He applied to Warwick School and was appointed Classics master in September 1908.

The marriage took place, not at Bishop’s Stortford, but at Felixestowe, because the honeymoon was taking place there. . . . The date of the wedding is easy to remember 8.8.08.
. . .
In August 1908, Kate Scarr, now Hainworth, slipped away quietly with her new husband, taking Eva, aged 19 and Roy, aged 11. The rest of the family had already dispersed.
. . .
The Hainworths went to 21 High Street, Warwick where they remained for one year before moving to a house called Woodlands at 21 Cape Road. . . .Six years later (1915) Alec Hainworth moved to Warwick School Junior House in Myton Road where they were to enjoy twenty-three years of happiness and prosperity.

End of excerpts from Jack Scarr research
Notes for Kate (Spouse 1)
First marriage to Renforth Thomas Scarr, had issue
Full name, birth date and location and death date and location courtesy Brandon Deakes and Jenny Kendrick

In the 1901 census Water Lane, Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire
Head Renforth T Scarr, age 50, malsters manager, born Bishop Stortford
Wife Kate Scarr, age 37, born Colchester, Essex
Son Walter C. Scarr, age 16, born Bishop Stortford
Daughter Eva K. Scarr, age 11, born Bishop Stortford
Son Kenneth R Scarr, age 4, born Bishop Stortford

One of her children by her first marriage, (thus no relation to me) Walter Chaplin Scarr was killed in action June 2, 1916 at Ypres, Battle of Mont Sorrel, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, Company B, Regimental Number 106537.
I mention this as my grandfather Percy Simmonds was also in the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, but Company C, Regimental Number 106553.
As it turned out both were in action on June 2, 1916 at Mont Sorrel. That day the 1st and 4th CMR’s were heavily shelled, undermined, driven from their positions and took huge numbers of casualties. Both men were reported missing in action, presumed dead. Both were found a few days later. Walter was found dead by the Canadians with several bayonet wounds. Percy had been found by the Canadians but they left him for dead. Percy was later found badly wounded by the Germans, taken POW and survived. Walter’s body was buried but the grave was lost, so his name was recorded on the Menin Gate Memorial. The grave was found several years later. It seems Percy was very fortunate not to have suffered the same fate.
[Kate’s husband Alexander Hainworth was half second cousin once removed to my grandmother, Percy’s wife.]
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