The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Descendant's report for Anna Balestier [Smith]
Generation No. 1
  1. Anna Balestier [Smith] She was born 1840 at New York, USA
  She married Henry Wolcott Balestier on 1860 at Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA. He was born 1840 at Illinois, USA. They had the following children:
  iCharles Wolcott who was born 15th Dec 1861 at New York, USA; died 6th Dec 1891
2 iiCaroline Starr who was born 31st Dec 1862 at New York, USA; died 19th Dec 1939 Sussex
  iiiBeatty Smith who was born 6th Mar 1867 at New York, USA; died 29th Jul 1936
  ivJosephine who was born 8th Apr 1870 at New York, USA; died 10th Sep 1939
   
Generation No. 2
  2. Caroline Starr Kipling [Balestier] was the daughter of Henry Wolcott Balestier and Anna Balestier [Smith]. She was born 31st Dec 1862 at New York, USA; died 19th Dec 1939 at Sussex
  She married Joseph Rudyard Kipling on 18th Jan 1892 at All Souls, Langham Place, London. He was born 30th Dec 1865 at Bombay, India; died 18th Jan 1936 at Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London; buried after 18th Jan 1936 at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London. They had the following children:
  iJosephine who was born 29th Dec 1892 at Bliss Cottage, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA; died 6th Mar 1899 New York, USA; buried after 6th Mar 1899 New York, USA
3 iiElsie who was born 2nd Feb 1896 at The Naulahka, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA; died 1976
  iiiJohn who was born 17th Aug 1897 at The Elms, Rottingdean, Sussex; died Sep 1915, killed in action on the Western Front
   
Generation No. 3
  3. Elsie Bambridge [Kipling] was the daughter of Joseph Rudyard Kipling and Caroline Starr Kipling [Balestier]. She was born 2nd Feb 1896 at The Naulahka, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA; died 1976
  She married Captain George Bambridge on 1924. He was born c 1900; died 1943
   

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