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Looking for the sailing of ISABEL MATLEY HERVEY from the UK to India c.1889 or perhaps into 1890. She was visiting her elder married sister and she kept a wonderful journal of her stay out there with all their travellings around. We are so lucky to have this but it is not dated! She was born in 1834 if you need to match her age. Thank you in advance.

Isabel Matley Hervey
England Births and Christenings
Name: Isabel Matley Hervey
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 14 Apr 1834
Christening Place: CATHEDRAL,MANCHESTER,LANCASHIRE,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Robert Hervey
Mother's Name: Jane

Isabel Hervey
England and Wales Census, 1881
Name: Isabel Hervey
Age (Original): 47
Gender: Female
Birth Year: 1834
Birthplace: Manchester, Lancashire, England
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Dividends Of Rents
Address: Barley Grange
Event Place: Bollington, Cheshire, England
Record Type: Household
Affiliate Publication Number: RG11
Piece/Folio: 3488 / 7
Page Number: 8
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Isabel Hervey Head F 47 Manchester, Lancashire, England
Rosamund Hervey Sister F 42 Manchester, Lancashire, England
Maud Beal Visitor F 30 London, Middlesex, England
Hannah Powel Cook F 37 Little Dapoley, Shropshire, England
Mary Jones Servant F 24 Wales
Emily Robinson Servant

Isabel M Hervey
England and Wales Census, 1901
Name: Isabel M Hervey
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 Mar 1901
Event Place: Petersfield, Hampshire, England
County: Hampshire
Civil Parish: Petersfield
Ecclesiastical Parish: Petersfield St Peter With St Mary Sheet
Sub-District: Petersfield
Registration District: Petersfield
Gender: Female
Age: 67
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Manchester, Lancashire
Schedule Type: Household

Isabel M Hervey
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
Name: Isabel M Hervey
Event Type: Death
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1930
Registration District: Petersfield
County: Hampshire
Event Place: Petersfield, Hampshire, England
Age (available after 1866): 96
Birth Year (Estimated): 1834
Volume: 2C
Page: 172
Line Number: 19

Thank you all! We have all of this, including a wonderful photograph of her at Barley Grange [see 1881 above] with ALL the servants - eight in total, so some of them did not 'live in'.

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First name(s) Isabel M
Last name Hervey
Application year 1856
Record set Index to Register of Passport Applications 1851-1903
Category Travel & migration
Subcategory Travel

Isabel M Hervey
Index to Register of Passport Applications 1851-1903
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Year
1856

Outward passenger lists start from 1890 on Ancestry so you might be unlucky

That passport application is very interesting, but my feeling is that it is not our girl. It is way too early in her life and we're pretty sure that she didn't travel abroad until she went out to India to visit her younger married sister Rosamond. Rosamond's married name was HANNA.
Thanks all the same for that.
:-)

Thank you Glitter Baby - can you see her??

No luck so far either in or out of the country

can you tell from the journal how long she was in India, i.e. are there daily entries, or does she date them by days of the week or month?

outbound passenger lists are only available from 1890 onward

but incoming passenger lists at Ancestry start in 1878 and I can't see anything that would fit

She is listed on Cheshire Electoral Registers from 1890 to 1896

Yes, she makes daily entries and they go on for about six months or so. We can narrow down the date she may have written it because she makes reference to the death of her baby nephew ARCHIBALD EARLE out in Burma - he died in 1899.

OH DEAR I HAVE MADE A BAD TYPO! I hit the wrong key because the date in my first entry at the top should read 1899 and NOT 1888. So sorry and I hope this hasn't misled you all.

Please keep trying and please forgive me.

Her surname of HERVEY is often mistranscribed; we have had HIRDY, HERSEY and more. Perhaps this could be the problem here?

that still could be isobel mentioned in application for passport in 1856 she would be 22yrs old

do you want to edit your opening post to change 1888 to 1899?

that way anybody who looks now will not be misled too

Just make a note that you are editing, so the rest of the replies don't look kind of insane ... :-)

Thank you JoonieCloonie for your guidance. I've done the editing for the date in my opening post.
Early start in the morning - will be back to this tomorrow pm.
Tvm all.

Thank you all. I'm back in the land of the living again. Can anyone see my gal, please? Or it has occurred to me that perhaps she travelled with her married sister ROSAMOND HANNA??
Standing by ..........