THE EDITOR, Sir:
MY UNCLE Cuthbert Arthur Vines, while serving in the Army Service Corps as a private, was stationed during the First World War at Command Headquarters, Kingston, Jamaica.
While there he married a lady named Madeline Aileen Rose in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kingston on February 23, 1916. Madeline was the daughter of Charles C. Rose, chief engineer at the General Penitentiary. This information is shown on the marriage certificate and also in the marriage announcement in The Gleaner issue of Monday February 28, 1916.
A daughter, Kathleen Winifred Cuthbert Vines, was born to them on March 20, 1917, at Up Park Camp, Jamaica. I have traced an entry in the Ellis Island record, of the family arriving at Ellis Island U.S.A. June 15, 1920, "in transit". After this I can find no trace of the family until a record of Cuthbert Arthur Vines being employed in London in December 1923.
Other records show him having a daughter, Winifred Gladys Vines, by a different lady.
What happened to Madeline and Kathleen? Were Cuthbert and she divorced? Did she die soon after leaving Jamaica? Did they return to Jamaica? Research has found no trace of either event here in England, so far. Is it possible for you to publish this letter? Perhaps a reader, or readers, of your paper are from the Rose family or may know of particulars that may help me with my research, or even have pictures of the wedding and family.
I have searched at the newspaper library in Colindale, London and found only the above-mentioned marriage announcement.
I am, etc.,
PETER VINES
peter@pvines3.wanadoo.co.uk
53 College Road
Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex
TN40 1TN
England
Via Go-Jamaica
