Frances Isabella Locke
, aged twenty, was married at New Alresford in Hampshire to an army paymaster (with the rank of lieutenant) named Henry Duberly
, whom she had first met four years earlier.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - xlviii.
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Residence
Frances Isabella Duberly
On her husband
's retirement from the army, FID
settled with him in their own home, a villa which they called St Clair, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel
Frances Isabella Duberly
The month after Britain and France declared war on Russia (opening the first Crimean War) FID
left London with her husband
and his regiment (the Eighth Hussars
) heading for Plymouth and thence for Constantinople...
Travel
Frances Isabella Duberly
FID
embarked again with her husband
, this time from Queenstown (now Cobh or Cork) in Ireland, heading for Bombay in India after the Indian Mutiny. Again she was the only officer's wife...
