Notes:

At Newnham Hall Ladies College, Cambridge for the 1881 census
Bertha Drysdale devoted 40 years of her life to good works in the parish, and for most of this time she lived in 'Brookfield', next door to the Parish Room in Manor Road. At one stage, during the Great War, the family lived at The Driffold on the Murcot turn off of the Evesham to Broadway Road. This address appears in two documents; it is the one given by John Mortimer Drysdale when he was learning to fly in 1916 and it appears in the Administration of Roger Gillespie Drysdale's estate in 1915.

Christened:
Just prior to her marriage, Bertha and Ada were baptised, in Croydon, into the Church of England on 15th May 1885, their late parents being Non-Conformists.

Bertha married Alfred Edgar Drysdale in 1885 in Croydon, London, England. Alfred (son of John James Drysdale and Mary) was born about 1855 in Liverpool, England; died in By 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Mortimer Drysdale was born in 1886 in Chateau D?Oex, Switzerland; died in 1970 in Barnet, England.
2. Roger Gillespie Drysdale was born on 1 Mar 1888 in Cannes, France; died on 15 Apr 1915 in Lymington, Hampshire, England.

Notes:

A London solicitor
John Matthew Chamberlain continued to live at Hillthorpe, Sydenham, in the Borough of Lewisham until his death on 12th April 1884, aged 60. He had become a Freeman of the City of London in 1857 and he left an Estate worth ?44,602/15/9 (equivalent to nearly ?4M in today's purchasing power or nearly ?20M in today's earnings).

John married Sarah Jane Gilham on 13 May 1857 in Lewisham. Sarah was born before 1863; died about 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]