Individual Details

Birth

Extract from Piece 03: Miscellaneous Foreign Returns, 1896-1910 -

No: 29112 - Federated Malay States - Extract from register of births in the state of Iclangor?

Register No & Page: 17785
Name: Rachel Marion
Sex: Female
Father's name: William James Parks Hume
Father's occupation: Auditor General ?
Father's nationality: British
Mother's name (maiden): Alice Stevenson
Mother's nationality: British
Date: 8 September 1908
Where born: Kuala Lumper
Informant: W J P Hume
Date of registration: 22 September 1908

Marriage

Extract from The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 11 January 1934, Page 2:

At Lynchmere Parish Church on Dec. 16 there were wedded Philip Frank Pitt, of the 1st Welch Regiment, and Rachel Marion, second daughter of Lieut.-Col. W. J. P. Hume, C.M.G., and Mrs. Hume, of Brinksway, Lynchmere, Sussex. Lieut.-Col. Hume was appointed th the Perak Civil Service as long ago as 1888 and after playing a distinguished part in suppressing the Ulun Selangor Riots in 1902, he became successively Auditor General Commissioner of Trade and Customs, and Resident of Perak. He joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1914 and did well in the War.Extract from: Malaya Tribune, 24 January 1934, Page 13

At the village church of St. Peter, Linchmere, Sussex, England, recently, Miss Rachel Marion Hume, daughter of Lieut.-Col. W. J. P. Hume, C.M.G., former British Resident of Perak, and Mrs Hume, was married to Mr. Philip Frank Pitt, only son of Mr Vernon H. Pitt, M.A. and Mrs Pitt, of Elm Gables Shottermill. The bridegroom is an officer in the 1st Welch Regiment. at present stationed at Aldershot. Among those present at the wedding were Sir George and Lady Maxwell.