Category Archives: Sandoe

Sando/w/es in the Crimea

Posted on 2019-05-03 by

Two Sandoes are known to have taken part in the Crimean War: William Sandoe (1825-1862), the Captain’s Steward on HMS Malacca, and Alexander Dingle Sandoe (1831-before 1857), a seaman on HMS Sanspareil, the guardship for the flagship HMS Agamemnon at … Continue reading →

Posted in Crimea, family history, genealogy, Royal Navy, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe, Sebastopol | Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Francis Sandoe and the London Poverty Survey

Posted on 2019-02-18 by

Charles Booth (1830-1916) was a Liverpool businessman (a dealer in leather and skins, and a  steamship operator), a philanthropist, initially Unitarian but eventually agnostic. From 1883 to 1903 he led and published the London Poverty Survey. Francis Sandoe (1834-1886) was … Continue reading →

Posted in family history, genealogy, london, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe | Tagged , , , ,

Sidney Sandoe’s ships

Posted on 2017-11-29 by

Sidney Richard John Sandoe 1868-1911 1883-1885 Sidney Sandoe entered the Royal Navy as a boy entrant at Devonport, HMS Impregnable. This is HMS Impregnable in 1896, formerly HMS Howe, at Devonport since 1888. Sidney’s HMS Impregnable was the former HMS … Continue reading →

Posted in family history, genealogy, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe | Tagged , , , , ,

Who was Charles Perthlin?

Posted on 2017-11-18 by

Revised 15 Dec 2017 – postscript 2 On the eleventh of July 1902, a young woman died in Cardiff following childbirth. She was Lucy Jane Perthlin, formerly Sandoe, born in Cardiff in 1873, the daughter of William Sandoe and Mary, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cardiff, family history, genealogy, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe | Tagged , , , , , ,

Richard Henry Sandoe 1870-1915

Posted on 2017-08-31 by

Updated 13 Nov 2017 (army service in 1890s). Private Richard Henry Sandoe was reported missing presumed killed near Ypres on 23 Apr 1915. The British army records for the Great War were mostly destroyed in the 1940 London Blitz, and all that remain … Continue reading →

Posted in family history, genealogy, Sandoe | Tagged , ,

Sidney Richard John Sandoe

Posted on 2017-03-03 by

Family legends Sidney Richard John Sandoe (1868-1911) was Richard John Sidney on his birth certificate, and was known to his shipmates as Dick. Whenever I asked where Sidney Sandoe came from, I was told it was from Falmouth in Cornwall, from a … Continue reading →

Posted in family history, genealogy, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe | Tagged , , , , ,

Sando/w/es in WW1

Posted on 2017-01-12 by

This list is not complete. Many WW1 British Service Records were destroyed or damaged in 1940. Other records have not yet been seen or found. Civilian casualties are even more difficult to find. Updated 8 October 2017, 22 Nov 2017, … Continue reading →

Posted in genealogy, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe | Tagged , , , ,

The Sando/w/e name

Posted on 2017-01-09 by

The origin of the name Sando/w/e The name has several origins internationally: In Mecklenburg, Germany: the Latin form Sandoviensis (degrading to Sandovie etc) is known from mediaeval documents such as Rostock university registers, and means “a person from neighbouring Sandau-an-der-Elbe“. … Continue reading →

Posted in family history, genealogy, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe | Tagged , , , , ,